Guidance Recordings | Label Profile

Guidance Recordings was my go-to label. Their compilations an education in the emerging deep house scene and yet the label itself was and is something of a mystery. The label was based in Chicago and founded by Ivan Pavlovich, Rob Kouchoukos, Sid Stary and Kelly McNeer in 1996.

The label has released a great number of compilation albums in the subgenre of deep house, with the strains of soulful electronic music, nu-jazz, funk, Afro-Caribbean, Latin, electro and broken beat rhythms. One of their most illustrious and memorable productions was the Hi-Fidelity House Imprint series, which lasted for five volumes, featuring homegrown artists such as Nuspirit Helsinki, and guest appearances like tracks from Dubtribe Sound System.

Artists including Blue Boy, Glenn Underground, Nuspirit Helsinki, Kevin Yost, Abacus, Larry Heard, Alton Miller, Space Jam, Boo Williams, Pat Barry and more. The label was consistently excellent and prolific and vanished without trace only to reappear recently on Bandcamp with a three part compilation by Callisto ‘Guidance Is Internal’.