20 years is a long time for a label to be in business and still be churning out quality music, yet that is exactly the story with Nordic Trax.
The globally-recognized house music label out of Vancouver, Canada and ran by Luke McKeehan celebrates the milestone with a special compilation from which we are proud to be featuring a track for you today. The compilation is both retrospective and fresh featuring exclusive new tracks from an acclaimed label roster alongside a selection of Luke’s personal favorites, and is already available for purchase on Beatport.
Twenty years from its inception the label certainly doesnāt look its age with this guiding ethos continuing, says McKeehan whom for the past two decades has embraced taking risks on new unknown artists.
“The goal of Nordic Trax has never been to be ‘on-trend’ or follow the pack — rather to put out timeless music that reflects what I’m hearing and how I’m feeling and let the chips fall where they may. In fact there’s a fairly decent list of projects I’ve passed on that have gone on to be hits. You can’t win them all, but I’m not interested in winning per se. This is a culture that has given me so much, and I feel obliged with our output to contribute with strictly quality music — not just flood all the channels with whatever I can sign.”
One of the compilationās exclusive highlights comes from Mark Farina & Moulton Musicās Homero Espinosa who delivers a 2017 rework of US producer Alexander. Overall, the result of such a carefully curated track list, plucked with love from such a wide array of output from lazy disco to chunkier sounds is a proudly personal album from one of the sceneās most structurally sound labels. A compilation that showcases not only the deep diversity of musical styles Nordic Trax has in its discography, but serves as a representation of the curvature in house music we all continue to enjoy.
20 Years of Nordic Trax Tracklist
1 Alexander East – Believe En Me (Mark Farina & Homero Espinosa Remix)
2 Nacho Marco – Northern Spirit
3 Jon Delerious – Let’s Work
4 Gavin Froome – Don’t Come Home ft Golden Ears (Giom Remix)
5 Gavin Boyce – Guidance Internal
6 Cristoph – Big H (Original)
7 Pete Moss – Infatuation
8 Matt Caine – The Break Up
9 Mature Minds – Concrete Castles (Halo Varga Surface Dub)
10 La Deep – Savoury
11 Marasco – Need (Original)
12 JT Donaldson & Chris Nazuka – Speaking With Sounds
13 DJ Harri & The Revenge – Slackjaw
14 Krown & Lock – Chameleon ft Esette (Johnny Fiasco Remix – Brett Johnson Bredit)
15 Kelvin K – Wanting You
16 Finest Wear – I See Her
17 Gavin Boyce – Divine In You (Fish Go Deep Remix)
18 Jay Tripwire – Body To Body (Audio Soul Project Remix)
19 T.O.S. – Only When I’m Late 20 Gavin Froome – Sunsets (Original)
20 Gavin Froome – Sunsets (Original)
Twenty Years of Nordic Trax Compilation is available on Beatport
