Djax-Up-Beats || Label of some of the most iconic Dance Music cuts and Afrofuturistic Art

Today I want to share here on Steemit one of my favorite labels ever, holder of a very important catalog of the History of Dance Music.

It all started when Djax Records was founded by Saskia Slegers aka Miss Djax (above photo) in 1989. Having worked in a record store for many years, Saskia met a number of promising artists whose music was never released because, according to Dutch record labels, were not commercial enough. At that moment, she decided it was time to start her own label, and thankfully she did. I must also say that at that time the dance music scene was mostly dominated by men, so I have absolute respect for the work of Miss Djax.

My all-time favorite Label is Djax-Up-Beats, daughter label of Djax records. Djax-Up-Beats helped shape the sound of techno up until the early ’00s, and it still does. I am a bit of a conceptualist and I consider very important in this particular label not only the music, although music is the most important, but I also love that there is a whole concept in the creation of a record from music to the image. Djax-Up-Beats, in addition to releasing some of the cuts I love most, also has a striking concept in the images it uses.

This label has some of the most iconic Afrofuturistic art, created by Alan Oldham, a Cartoonist, Dj (DJ T-1000), ​and Producer. Afrofuturism is a cultural aesthetic, philosophy of science, and philosophy of history that explores the developing intersection of African Diaspora culture with technology.

An amazing day to all music lovers out there <3

"The history of international techno is inseparable from Djax-Up-Beats. Founded in Eindhoven at the turn of the 90s, Djax-Up-Beats quickly earned an international reputation for being a key source of Chicago house, acid techno, and floor-filling, heavy-hitting, straight up underground 12”s.

After forging a strong relationship with artists in Chicago and Detroit, label founder Miss Djax quickly found her (actual) mailbox full of demo tapes from up-and-coming producers from across the Atlantic. Straight away Djax-Up-Beats became a home for both Dutch and American artists alike creating heavy, experimental machine techno.

Even today, pioneering artists such as DJ Richard and Nina Kraviz are dropping tracks from Djax-Up-Beats in their sets. “Djax-Up-Beats is techno royalty,” DJ Richard recently noted in an article for Electronic Beats. This sound of the early 90s, which spawned the sonic aesthetics of today, is still as relevant and vibrant as ever. You can hear the label’s sound in the productions of Bjarki, Varg, and Legowelt, and influencing hypnotic and quixotic outposts such as Crème Organization, L.I.E.S, Salon des Amateurs and more.

Whether you’re a collector, or DJ looking to add to​ your left field techno collection, the reissue of these Djax-Up-Beats classics is not one to pass up." Source