Hakim Murphy drops his latest release - "Man Joe" on his label Endeavor - Prints.

Machine funk all day, as the label welcome’s Jamal Moss aka Hieroglyphic Being to the fold. Man Joe (a phrase that people from Chicago will know off top) is a homage to the banging side of the Chicago sound, fusing Moss’s avant garde waveforms with Murphy’s idiosyncratic take on Dance Mania records. Out the box Moss’s remix of Beat Pit has crunchy mastering, unexpected drum program, and multi-time signature synth melodies that are the personification of musical liberty. Meanwhile Murphy’s original version looks forward while looking backward with its subtle drum programming and synth arrangements that helped to define footwork dancing in Chicago. The acid lines dance around each other just to introduce the chords towards the end of the tune. Following suit is Classic Beat with its uptempo groove and modulating bassline parades around as Murphy sprinkles sparse vocal drops rounding off the release. Shout out to the dancers out there.