Supply Records presents The Next Step: The B-Tracks Collection. For the 10 year anniversary of the B-Tracks project it finally makes sense to get these tracks out digitally at long last - for the first time ever. This is a retrospective of of tunes that were made between 2010 and 2020 by B-Tracks, a duo made up of Soren Jahan, and myself - John Barera. We are excited to share this music with a new generation of dancers and listeners. What you were find here is a selection of our favorite tracks produced across the last decade with selections from all our Supply Records releases is appearing on what were up until this point vinyl only EPs that have been largely sold out for years.

This is our special musical place where house meets techno and our love of disco and funk loops collide on stripped down, dance floor focused tracks. We bonded over our love of classic Chicago records in the early days and we idolized producers like Paul Johnson, Rick Wade and Thomas Bangalter. We have over our career favored doing what we believe in at our own pace, and quietly releasing music we care about with little fanfare. Coming out of Boston, MA there were no big parties going on, we had to throw our own loft parties and we looked to the scene in Chicago, Detroit and Berlin for inspiration. This is the soundtrack to those nights and that mindset.

The first time I met Soren I was tipped off by Ariana / DJ Volvox about this new kid in town who was a really good young producer.
I recall him coming to see me play at Middlesex in Cambridge and possibly even not being old enough to enter the club, having to hang out front. We struck up a friendship and I remember the first time we even hung out we started producing tracks and made "Specialize" that first day, 10 years later still one of my favorite tracks I’ve ever had a hand in. We had a lot of energy and ambition and we translated that right into tracks. We started building more and more tunes and trying to build up an all killer no filler debut record. After various label problems we decided to do what our heroes like Moodymann had done before us : start our own label to release our own music, and thus Supply Records was born in 2011.

Our first release was on the label was our "Specialize" EP. We didn’t think anyone would care or notice but quickly we found that we had a European distributor and that our records were selling out in places we really admired like Hardwax and Honest Jon's. By the next year we released our second record "Come Back" and we were getting offers to play at places like Panorama Bar, where we did very memorably play a B-Tracks set together closing down that room before the garden opened. For two unknown kids starting out in the dance music scene coming straight out of Massachusetts it was a big accomplishment for us at the time. Those early tours took us out of our bedrooms and into the world. Recently the last time I was in Berlin we played a 4 Hour b2b set for a great crowd and there are few funner things in life for me to do really. Soren is a very sharp and technical DJ and a very musical and technically sharp producer - a rare breed. His touch really brings these tracks to life. I’m very proud of the music we have released and continue to cultivate on Supply, including very memorably, Waynette's debut album - who I still believe in very much as an artist and DJ.

It’s a big accomplishment to me that 10 years later Soren & I's friendship is still intact and that we still can make great music together and we still enjoy it. Across the course of many visits to Berlin we kept the project alive across the ocean, always working together only in person, feeding off that energy and slowly producing music that we could be proud of. Our most recent EP together came out on Supply in 2020. It is a blessing that ten years later our label is still here and we do have more releases in the pipeline that I am very excited about and feel sit amongst our best work. I hope you enjoy the tunes and thank you to Soren for ten great years, cheers to many more.

-John Barera, New York City, October 2021.