LOVE DONT COME EASY / CLOSER by DJ DUKE

One of the indisputable leaders of the 90's club music vanguard, DJ Duke offered a dark, debauched, and utterly visionary interpretation of NYC house music. Check!The self-made dance music icon and multiple label founder graduated from his first love of hip-hop during his transformation from b-boy to full-on house head in the late 1980's, establishing his own brand of future club music that heralded a qualitative shift away from live instrumentation to the broader reaches of a purely electronic breed of garage. Having already inaugurated the CORE series with two tracks from the seminal "Old Skool Deep Sampler," Duke returns for a second tour: two of his productions under the moniker Freedom (with vocalist Lee Smith Jr.), shining jewels of the "often imitated, never duplicated" aesthetic situated between the twilight of Manhattan mecca-clubs, Giuliani-era repression and the refusal of minority and gay culture to disappear.