Artist's albums
Playgroup (Remixes)
2018 · album
Previously Unreleased Volume 2
2018 · album
Previously Unreleased
2016 · album
Behind the Wheel
2012 · single
Bring It On
2012 · EP
Front 2 Back
2012 · single
Hooked on U / Mad Love
2012 · single
Make It Happen
2012 · single
Number One
2012 · single
Playgroup
2012 · album
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Biography
Playgroup was a studio party/rumpus-room collective orchestrated by Trevor Jackson, a graphic designer (with sleeves of releases by Eric B. & Rakim, Stereo MC's, and the Jungle Brothers to his credit), producer, and remixer who had previously operated as Underdog and Skull. A melting pot of disco, funk, hip-hop, dub, new wave, and house, 2001's Playgroup, released on the Source label, featured appearances from Roddy Frame, Edwyn Collins, Shinehead, Kathleen Hanna, and Rowetta. Astralwerks picked the record up for release in the U.S. in March of 2002. By the end of that year, Jackson released a pair of mix albums: his contribution to the DJ-Kicks series and a very limited disc called Party-Mix. In 2005, Peacefrog gathered two discs of Jackson's remixes for the likes of Soft Cell, Yello, and the Rapture, and issued it as Reproduction. A couple years later, Jackson briefly reactivated the Playgroup name to contribute a disc to Rapster's Kings of Electro double-disc mix set. In 2016, Jackson opened the vaults and issued a nine-part series of Previously Unreleased EPs, one per week from July to September, on the Yes Wave label. Most of the tracks were compiled onto a double-CD later that year, also titled Previously Unreleased. Jackson also ran the Output label, home to releases by Fridge, Four Tet, LCD Soundsystem, Black Strobe, Mu, and Colder. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi