D-Jax Records and the woman behind the label - Miss D-Jax, did a lot to promote important Chicago producers in Europe in the early 90's. Some might say D-Jax tried to take too much credit for their involvement, however this EP is a brilliant balance in combining the talent of the best of European remixing talent at the time and original Chicago productions. Like a Tim's mix is a cracker - I almost like it as much as I do the original. His interpretation maintains a minimal dirty funk that so suits Pointdexter's original and at the same time has Tim expressing his own unique sound. The simple acid track on B2 (Born to Freak) is another gluttoral, hypnotic, warbling masterpiece that makes this EP well worth owning.

Regarding your comments about DJAX-UP-BEATS taking too much credit, i would say the opposite is true and that it boosted many of these artists careers.At a time when rave was the main thing Djax was one of the few labels not selling out to the latest ''sound''.

so what would you recommend as 'non-eurocentric' Chicago material that never got to DJAX records?

To be fair. Miss Djax released the poor material from chicago.. like these guys in chitown would have giving Djax their best material.. never.. most of the chicago material on Djax is weak and eurocentric..