“Footwork” is prime proof of a recurring truth in dance music: While the various electronic vanguards strive self-consciously to break all sound barriers, it’s the functional styles that produce the ...

FACT reports that on May 28, footwork producer Cornelius Ferguson, aka Traxman, was shot in the leg during a robbery in his home city of Chicago. According to Thomas Quaye from Traxman's label Planet ...

Traxman started to make music with the simple aim of making people dance and have a good time. That hasn’t changed, but since he started out in the '80s, Corky Strong’s masterful productions and DJ ...

After So So Glos, Lost Boy, Life Size Maps, and Big Ups play 285 Kent tonight (5/25), an entirely different show will go down at the venue. Weird Terrain is throwing a dance party which will kick off ...

Traxman, a leading ambassador of Chicago’s footwork style, was shot in the leg during an armed robbery in his home city. Traxman’s latest album Da Mind of Traxman was, along with his fellow Teklife ...

Legendary Chicago producer Traxman has revealed details of his first solo album in ten years, set to arrive via Planet Mu on February 7. Ahead of its release, the footwork, juke and ghetto house ...

Né Cornelius Ferguson, veteran Chicago producer Traxman started DJing when he was eight, and he's been present through pretty much every chapter in the city's native house music ever since, from the ...

New York's Lit City Trax, whose founder J-Cush recently made us a mix featuring a size-able cross-section of label's extended family, just tipped us off to the existence of a new double-LP from ...

This Friday, Portland plays host to yet more footwork legends, Traxman and Jamminâ Gerald. I gave Trax, aka Corky Strong, a call to see what we can expect from the Chicago producer at Holocene on ...

In today’s hyper-globalized music industry, where production and consumption cycles are increasingly uniform, encountering truly local genres and community-based artists is growing increasingly ...

Traxman was possibly one of the artists I listened to most in 2013. Be it his FADER mix, selections from his TEKLIFE Vol. 3 album, or a collection of cuts from his EPs and albums, he stayed in ...

Swear we just got a mix of lost jams from Traxman last week, and now he's back with a new half hour of footwork loveliness, "Tek Living." This mix isn't full of his own material, though; if you've ...