Joey Youngman

If it is true — as it undoubtedly must be — that legends are made, not born, then Joey Youngman is on his way to some truth. Producing at the ripe young age of eleven and spinning at fourteen years old, Youngman was on the make while his peers were still into lemonade stands. He made up his mind to make music, and his make became a monster. That make, of course, is house, the deeper and funkier and quirkier and chunkier the better. Kingpin behind imprints Fetish Recordings and Jackin' Tracks, and tapped for production duties by the likes of Om, Blockhead, Doubledown, and Nightshift, Youngman has turned the make into a whole new model, stripped, streamed, and agleam for the new century. And like the modern man-child he was, Youngman has become a veritable massive of multitasked mastering. With Tony Hewitt, he's Young Governors; with Jonene, he's Manwhore; astride two turntables and a mixer, he's the glory boy, that cat who still gets a kid's kicks outta killer beats. By putting some serious fun back into the world of white-label branding, pal Joey shows that, well, house is what you make of it.