“I don’t make music for the masses to dance to, I make music for the small majority that listens.” — Moodymann aka Kenny Dixon Jr.

Year after year, we encounter the same thing: the dusty, basement Jazz chords, the 70s and 80s golden-era Soul vocal samples and the bumping 909s. And year after year, no one quite manages to emulate that Moodymann style.

Kenny Dixon Jr. has been killing it since 1994 and along with fellow Motor City cohort, Theo Parrish, epitomises the second wave of Detroit electronic music. We felt it was time to celebrate over 20 year’s of awesomeness with a run through the tracks that we think, are KDJ’s finest moments; here are the best Moodymann tracks.

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Kenny Dixon Jr. — Outerdrive

One of the stand out tracks from the Three Chairs project of Theo Parrish, Marcellus Pittman, Rick Wilhite and KDJ.

Moodymann — Joy Pt2

An ultimate closing tracks for any house club.

Moodymann — Liveinla 1998

KDJ’s timeless take on minimal techno.