Rectangle Triangle — Detroit

A fixture of Detroit's deep end since 1982, mentored early by the late Ken Collier. Around 2000 he formed Detroit Beatdown with Delano Smith and Mike "Agent X" Clark — the trio whose slowed-down, low-slung take on house toured worldwide and held residencies at home and abroad.

His records run through Third Ear, Sushitech, Mixmode, Landed, Dockside and Thema, and in 2017 Omar-S's FXHE released his first album, Norm-A-Lize. Travelin', Powder and Join Hands are underground standards.

Upstairs Asylum ran as his production outfit from 1996 before he turned it into a vinyl label — releases alongside Moodymann, Omar-S and Delano Smith among them. The worldwide vinyl distribution he started in the pandemic is where this stock comes from. He currently co-leads TAG with Scott Grooves and plays main support for Omar-S.

Every record here is Norm's pick. Where it ships from depends on the copy:

• Marked Ships from Detroit — sent straight from Norm's warehouse
• Marked Available in Toronto — on the floor at Rhythm in Toronto
• Everything else — from the Montreal shop

Worldwide delivery, wherever the record starts from.

All-thriller, no-filler—Norm's personal stamp of approval on every record.