House Shoes

Home Sneakers’ crucial part in the advancement of Detroit hip-hop was fully understood only by those that closely witnessed the DJ/producer’s actions as an designer and advocate. Given birth to Michael Buchanan, Home Shoes grew up in Lathrup Town, a small town encircled by the Detroit suburb of Southfield. From your mid-’90s through the first 2000s, he was a citizen DJ at Detroit’s St. Andrew’s Hall. He worked well at several record stores around the town, including Melodies & Remembrances and Street Part Music. Gradually, he racked up creation credits for famous brands Common Ground, Resistant, and Elzhi. Through Home Sneakers Recordings, he released Phat Kat’s J Dilla-produced “Commitment towards the Suckers,” a ten-track compilation of uncommon Dilla mixes and productions entitled Jay Dee Unreleased, and THE HOME Sneakers Collection, Vol. 1: I ACQUIRED Next — a two-CD arranged featuring materials from Slum Town, Guilty Simpson, Royce da 5’9″, Does not have, Dabrye, and many others, with some materials produced by Home Shoes himself. Like a DJ, he also continued the street with lots of the above-mentioned performers, in addition to Aloe Blacc and Mayer Hawthorne. Production-wise, Home Sneakers — who ultimately relocated to LA — was by no means one to overflow the marketplace, though his result improved around 2010-2012. This culminated within an album, IGNORE IT, issued around the Tres label in June 2012.