Essential Producer: Theo Parrish
I hope that many of you reader-listener-explorers out there can say you know the name of Theo Parrish. I fear few of us actually boast any of his material in our libraries, and an even smaller proportion who own or have even heard a substantial bit of his discography. I decided to do some deep diving recently, and started to get a sense of just what makes Theo Parrish and his unique style so special. The tracks encapsulate the best of both Chicago disco and soul and Detroit’s dirty brand of techno and house, often accented by a lo-fi quality that comes from the DIY-sounding nature of the recording process. Some complain, but I happen to love it, this more organic, imperfect quality turn out to be one of the unique differentiators in a veritable ocean of perfectly-quantized machine grooves. If you get some time, do a deep dive and you’ll be sure to find some cuts that sound almost like they were made just for you when you were too young to comprehend it.
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