Assembled with the same painstaking detail that Nickerson and Englehardt have brought to every facet of their shop since day one, Volume 1 includes a 3x12" compilation and 32-page booklet that's jammed packed with vivid photos, profiles of staff and regulars, shop history, personal reflections, discographies, assorted ephemera; and as much tomfoolery, myth-making and shit-talking as anyone with even a passing familiarity with the place should expect.

The three 12”s boast a selection of reissued and previously unreleased tracks that together encompass the store's multi-faceted musical vision and evolution. Highly coveted golden age masterpieces like Groovestyle's euphoric "L.O.V.E." and lesser known treasures like Funk D’Void’s “Thank You (Slowly)” and Tommy E’s “I Need to Go Away” join the long list of underground house classics Nickerson and Englehardt have resurrected since opening Dope Jams. Celebrate LIFE peaktime favorites "Desolate Cities" and "Old Landmark" and druggy early morning detours "In a Hole" and "Living in a Zome" recall the all-consuming intensity of the shop's monthly parties. And showcasing the store's never-ending quest for mind-bending new dance sounds, Volume 1 features a trio of exciting, previously unreleased jams from current artists -- "Taken," an explosive techno time bomb from shop favorite D'Marc Cantu; Englehardt's dark and demented dub of Spike’s “Magic Table"; and Beige's mystical, slowly unraveling “Hollow Point."

Tracklisting

A1. Groovestyle - L.O.V.E.

A2. Tommy E - I Need To Go Away (All By Myself)

B1. Funk D'Void - Thank You (Slowly)

B2. Vil-N-X - What Cha Gonna Do

C1. Beige - Hollow Point

C2. Hieroglyphic Being - Kilometer Zero

D1. Analogous Doom - Living In A Zome

D2. D'Marc Cantu - Taken

D3. Spike - Magic Table (Francis Englehardt remix)

E1. The Djoon Experience - Old Landmark (feat Kenny Bobien)

E2. 2AM/FM - Desolate Cities

F1. Tom Of England - Be Me

F2. Invisible Conga People - In A Hole

F3. Christopher Deloach - Snow (feat Nick Hallstrom)

Format : 3XLP