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Out Now...
Joshua Iz
Juice
Bananza Music
 Bananza Music’s recent relaunch after two years got the label off to a flying re-start and now they follow up with another impressive 12” from Joshua Iz. Perhaps best known as being one half of Iz & Diz, Joshua has also carved out a very successful solo career for himself on labels including Nordic Trax, Doubledown, Tweekin and Nightshift. On ‘Juice’ and ‘Shiz’ the San Francisco based producer takes things into driving, deep house territory with plenty of techy touches.
Huge support from DJ Sneak, Tom Middleton, Mark Farina, Luciano, Paul Woolford, Fred Everytihng and many more...
Sound Clips...
>> Juice
>> Shiz
>> Juice (DJ Tool)
Available now on vinyl and digital from the stores listed in the right-hand panel.
DJ Feedback...
Sneak: 5/5, shiz n juice tool does it for me. Iz the shittzzzz nittZ!
Tom Middleton: 5/5, OH YESSSS..Hugantic! I'll be spinning both! Shiz is one of the finest deep grooves I've heard this year. Big ups to Iz! Peace Jedi x
Mark Farina: 5/5, wonderful!
Luciano: love the label, full support.
Fred Everything: 5/5, What the fuck is Juice? I want some Grape Drink! Finally! Had that for at least 2 years, great track. Didn't have Shiz so thanks for that!~ -f
Paul Woolford: 5/5, Love it, killer soulful jackers. Big ups all round to Joshua!!
Yousef: love shiz, really great house music as always from Iz.
Andy Inland Knights: 5/5, solid ep...shiz and the dj tool probably the ones i would play...all three tracks solid tho
Peter Christianson (LawnChair Generals): Joshua bringing it!
Brett Johnson: 5/5, I've had these for a while but haven't peep'ed them in a bit and I have to say I love'em more now then before. Perhaps because there is such a shortage of PROPER house music in the world. Josh is the man and will always be. Great tunes dude!!!!!! Will def play!!! Oh and "shiz" is my shiz.....
Orde Meikle (Slam): Very nice!!
Nacho Marco: 5/5, full support
Jason Hodges: Juice is the mix!
Nick Holder: That's some smoove isht! Liking ait and will rock it! Thanks for sending!
Atnarko: Always a fan of Joshua's stuff! Shiz is the stand out for me! great ep
Harold Heath: 5/5, Excellent EP, proper house music, this is exactly the kind of track i play, right up my street
Tom Taylor (The Electric Press): juice is really nice ...great housey vibe will give this some action
Scope: Wicked stuff all round.. Really feelin this!!
Phil Weeks: 5/5, Love this track. Use to kill it.
plus more support from Burnski, Jay West, Manuel Tur, Da Sunlounge, Giom, Timmy Stewart, Lil Mark, Eddie Leader, Frankie J, Harri, Ken ECB, DJ Mes, Massimo DaCosta, Littlemen, Demarkus Lewis, Satoshi Fumi, Hector Moralez, Luke McKeehan, Grant Nelson, Funky Transport, Miles Maeda, Kelvin K, Joshua Heath, Chris Harris, Fabrice Lig and more
Joshua Iz...
Joshua was born on the same day the first manned Apollo mission blasted off to the moon. Growing up just outside of Chicago in Oak Park, he learned piano at an early age although was more partial to American Football and getting into trouble. After a move to San Jose, he began to buy records, became part of the school band (which also included Doc Martin on trumpet) and started a weekly radio show.
On a visit back to Chicago he was recommended to ask for Derrick Carter at Gramaphone Records and the two instantly hit it off. After graduating from University Joshua started making his own tracks and sent demos to Derrick and Chez Damier who invited him to Chicago to make more music. At the same time he met and started working with Diz, recording their first track at the legendary KMS Studios in Detroit.
Joshua soon moved in with the Red Nail posse (Derrick, Mark Farina, G-Most and Chris Nazuka), with the illusionary Chez being another semi-permanent resident. He began making music for Blue Cucaracha, Prescription and its offshoot Balance as well as working as design director at Cajual Records with Cajmere/Green Velvet.
In 1996 Joshua returned to the San Francisco Bay Area where he has lived and worked ever since. His travel schedule now takes him around the world, regularly visiting clubs such as Fabric, Sub Club and Rex. With well over 100 releases, Joshua has operated under several guises including Stereo People, Free Energy, Dubwise, and J-Boom for labels such as Junior Boys Own, Ubiquity, OM, Classic, Nightshift, Seasons and NRK amongst others.
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