Jazz up your crates with four highly functional DJ tools from Rose Club, a rotating collective of East Coast producers and DJs. The group uses a minimal touch on their first demo, stripping the production setup back to a drum machine, sampler and distortion pedal. The project's roots in New Jersey are evidenced by their beats—dense polyrhythms constructed from club breaks, 909 toms and crisp, overdriven hi hats. Tracks begin and end with beats, noise elements slowly oozing out of the unrelenting grooves along the way. Droning, lysergic sounds build waves of contrapuntal tension over long stretches of time until finally congealing above slamming rhythms. Peaking at an almost uncomfortable density, the tracks then break down into hyper minimal DJ tools, reinforcing the primacy of the club patterns by which they are anchored. Deceptively straightforward, Rose Club’s tracks employ an economy of space and nuanced attention to sonics which make them unique among many club producers out now.

Recorded by Jon Flores at Second Ward, Hudson, NY, Fall 2024.

Guy – Sampler
Jonah – 909

Mixed by Rose Club
Mastered by Nick Klein