Endeavor

Endeavor

About the Label

Endeavor is a record label based Chicago that features music from co-owner and artist Hakim Murphy. The mission is to bring fresh electronic music out to the public. The fundamental philosophy is music liberation in all aspects yet within the constraints of fundamental develop. The place where one developed advance musical abilities, like creation and arrangement. This label is the continuation the combined tastes of co-owner Ron Bush and Murphy’s development while living in the Chicago area. Each release will feature from Murphy with remixes from a broad spectrum of artists. Enjoy this new Endeavor…

Hakim Murphy

About Me

Since Murphy's youth, he believes that music has touched him in a way that made him fall in love with its rhythms, harmonies, and melodies. So in the natural progression dancing took over his body, but yet gus soul craved for more and that is when playing records surfaced. Ah, then the fascination with the fast dance tracks turned into deep House production through friends and experiences, which then blossomed into a Bachelor’s degree in music composition. Liberal arts training allowed him to take classes and learn about human intellect, nature, and essentially my personal definition of art. Synapsis Records and Machining Dreams record labels are born and are currently releasing music by, for, and from the underground. Then after learning the craft, collaborations were born as he is part of Innerspace Halflife, Pegasus Heat, Resonating, Hardware Hustlerz, Slowmotion, and Dream Scoring.

Ron Bush

About Me

Ron Bush hailing from all sides of Chicago, long time promoter, enthusiast, and party guy, has experienced the many different faces of the scene. Bush has teamed up with Murphy in order to infuse his take on what was the past, what is the present, and what will be the future of dance music. Bush’s focus has a wide scope and plans to bring in a wide range of artists whom he has not forgot about. Bush is excited about this project and helping to steer into the a direction of goodness.

Releases
Hakim Murphy - Aqua Breathing
Hakim Murphy - Aqua Breathing
Aqua Breathing bounces and wiggles through the speakers captured by one’s ear drums. Slow and fast-motion is the spectrum of fluid arrangements compacted in this three track release. Magda’s version of 5th-Meter comes with the break-beat, techno tip. That is the fraternal twin of the original that strikes the floor hard. The original emotes the lush pads with a hypnotic kick, that hits with subtle straight energy. Hard choppy waters come with CV-20, the acid lines comes to life and metastasises with the atmosphere of a wormhole.
5th Meter(Magda Remix)
5th Meter
CV20
Hakim Murphy - Man Joe
Hakim Murphy - Man Joe
Machine funk all day, as the label welcome’s Jamal Moss aka Heiroglyphic 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.
Beat Pit(Heiroglyphic Being Remix)
Beat Pit
Classic Beat
Hakim Murphy - Fa Dem Goofy's
Hakim Murphy - Fa Dem Goofy's
Playfulness is a great adjective for this release as the title Fa Dem Goofy's suggests. Jovial yet banging tunes are located in this package that will serve up dance floors and home systems alike. Tyree Cooper's remix of Muvido extracts the bassline and adds the disco percussion, trying to take it back to the Bismarck days. Suddenly after all this tension is built smooth harmonies frolic from the speakers. Murphy's original is raw and banging, percussion focused for much of the runtime, but then turns emotive with lush chords over the syncopation. Made while waiting an airport, Landing Acid's percussion sets the mood while two acid lines call and respond to each other in a good humoured-way.
Muvido(Tyree Cooper Throwback Remix)
Muvido
Landing Acid

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