Traxx
Releases
L.I.E.S. 014 Urban Dust/Sketch III
- Mutant Beat DanceSEQ 003 Disparate Implementation
- ViLLan X ft. Kold / D'Marc CantuHHYR 19 Let Me Go / Rottenfunk
- Mutant Beat DanceAnother World / New News is Old News
- Mutant Beat DanceMarie's Trancendance EP
- The Poetic Painter MNAT011 The Modern Electronic Element Serie 2
- Various ArtistsNight Sky
- Gavin RussomDefinition of Jak - Definition of Hope
- Various ArtistsLIH 003 To The Beat Bizarre
- TraxxNAT009 Rhythm Relics EP
- Saturn V / X2Antenna 08 Fractal Rip
- Werner/Hitchell - TraxxNAT008 Future Elektronix EP
- D'Marc Cantu & The ManiacsNAT007 Faith LP
- TraxxDiscos Capablanca 002 In A Daze feat. Eric D. Clark
- Mutant Beat DanceFrigio 001 The Owl and The Daylight
- JM StrapNAT006 Prototype Substace EP
- Villan X / James T CottonCreme Jak 07 Kontrol
- The JakCreme Jak 06 Your Mind
- Saturn VNAT005 The Modern Electronic Element EP (Serie 1)
- Various ArtistsUpcoming Shows
Artist Profile Bio:
"painters paint their pictures on canvas, musicians paint their pictures on silence."
A musician like no other.
Not content to be labeled as merely a DJ, a producer, or even a DJ/Producer, Melvin Oliphant III aka Traxx is a lover of music — one with a passion so intense that it overcomes genre divides to weave an altogether original, exciting, and multi-textured musical fabric which envelops both the avid clubber and the home listener, as well as everyone in between.
As a self-described "artist of sound," Traxx morphs musical compositions into distinctive, highly emotional interpretations — he is, indeed, an innovator, and one who reshapes music into a progressive,forward-thinking document which defies classification and invites analysis and discussion. From eclectic and avant-garde tunes to old school jack tracks and lounge grooves, he hears it all without discrimination, pretension or elitism.
Traxx released on numerous labels such as Relief, M/O/S, Gigolo, Muzique, Crème Organization, Antenna and Crème-Jak under different monikers such as XXart, Saturn V, X2, The Green Goblin and Dirty Criminals. He collaborated with James T. Cotton, DJ Hell, Green Velvet, Hieroglyphic Being, DeeCoy and Legowelt to shape his unique definition of Jakbeat.
In 2007 Traxx founded Nation as a platform for the Jakbeat sound for artists like JTC, D’Marc Cantu, Saturn V, 2AMFM, X2, Naughty Wood, Lost Frequencies, Beau Wanzer and many more tocreate a new era from the backgrounds of dance culture of rhythm tracks, House Grooves,Synth, and Darker Wave to create a new era of sound influenced from our forefathers of the music scene in the early years of the 80's to the early 90's.
