Treasured Grooves

Treasured Grooves Idaho's only digital label dedicated to underground house music. With artists from Italy, France, Mexico, Bulgaria,and Norway to name a few.

I’ve been out of the loop for a long time. Having to deal with picking myself after investing not only time but so much ...
02/08/2025

I’ve been out of the loop for a long time. Having to deal with picking myself after investing not only time but so much money into something that changed my life.

Artists that I’ve put on that might have blown up done some things and all that which is great. Especially coming from a self funded passion.

Never was a street pharmacist, always gigged to put money back into the label. Never really making anything back unless I put my own stuff out on my label.

Which makes sense because if you have so much invested you have to at least make it back. Which is like chasing that carrot.

I’ll be switching distribution soon. Our distributor who I wont name until I get some type of reply from. Pretty much just took whatever money that was never even spent.

They switched to a new system a while ago, never replied to any emails which they took as a ticketing system. Not sure who dropped the ball there or if it’s the way they do business.

So every time we needed to pull down releases which I didn’t mind always cost us money. Heck even had one lawyer hit us up about copyright that cost quite a bit that I never mentioned. So it’s a vicious cycle. Similar to how OSEA and other places ran their distribution. Getting hit up by a lawyer whom could have really just gone after quite much of nothing. As we had nothing really in the form of assets.

This along with other financial strains is why I stop putting out artists. Releasing music as I was in a very dark place.

I’ll reach out to artists once we know what’s going on.

Saludos y abrazos grandes 🤟💙☕️

I’ll fire off and screen s**t the email again, save the reply as I’ll send it to myself. Wait on it a few weeks then just call them up on their time. It’s a European company so it’s tricky.

Either way I’ll be looking to switch distro, release all our artists stuff back to them.

Funny thing too they only offer 3 years of transaction history which is very convenient. This is me being very transparent. So if you hit me up about your sales, trust me most lot the time those releases didn’t even make back the advance if one, the artwork and mastering.

It’s been a while but sometimes you just have to let loose. Give them something they need or maybe it’s something your s...
01/26/2025

It’s been a while but sometimes you just have to let loose. Give them something they need or maybe it’s something your soul needs.

This is a trip to those very special intimate nights a long time ago. Some of that deepness, hope you like this mix it just under 3 hours long.

If you like the mix give it a like, share it and download it. These mixes don’t stay up too long.

It only gets sweet, when you get deep 🤟💙☕️

https://on.soundcloud.com/UHWgBNYfEeBidLhp8

Goatstar Donuts are tremendous, you should give them a try 🤟💙☕️
01/03/2025

Goatstar Donuts are tremendous, you should give them a try 🤟💙☕️


Happy new year 🤟💙☕️
01/01/2025

Happy new year 🤟💙☕️

The spaceship is ready to start purring again. When it comes to house music there is only one true 208 Westside undergro...
12/21/2024

The spaceship is ready to start purring again.

When it comes to house music there is only one true 208 Westside underground house sound.

If I listened to everyone that hasn’t done anything in my parts to this day. I’d be just another Dj and even though it’s my true love.

Something about believing in yourself when others doubted you. Makes the loneliness that much sweeter.

Those who are truly prolific, will always be misunderstood by those who are just going through the motions. Learn to take a risk on yourself the world is a bigger place than your local demographics 🤟💙☕️

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I hardly get out of the house as I’m always writing code. So enjoying a meal by myself when I can is a treat for sure.  ...
12/21/2024

I hardly get out of the house as I’m always writing code. So enjoying a meal by myself when I can is a treat for sure.

Chorizo is great on toasted bread, with cream cheese and some melted cheese. You can’t forget the over easy egg sprinkli...
12/09/2024

Chorizo is great on toasted bread, with cream cheese and some melted cheese. You can’t forget the over easy egg sprinkling in some Ajika!

Similar to house music being a blend of tasty flavors. Unless it’s straight chorizo style then I’m not to sure about 😁

Feel free to pick up my latest release out now on Chicago Skyline Records.

https://www.traxsource.com/track/12880787/take-a-risk-original-mix

This track on Chicago Skyline Records is included in this week’s Jacking House Essentials. Give it a go and pick it up i...
12/07/2024

This track on Chicago Skyline Records is included in this week’s Jacking House Essentials.

Give it a go and pick it up if you like it and share it. It’ll be greatly appreciated compas y comadres 💙☕️🤟

08/14/2024

I truly want to thank everyone who took the time to reach out and wish me a Happy Birthday.

It was my first one without my momma being here physically but she was definitely here with me in spirit all day.

Normally I would go and thank everyone personally but I'm just not feeling like the same individual since my momma left us. You lose a piece of yourself when one or both of your parents, needs to make that journey we all must take one day.

However, I send you a big virtual hug and cheers you all with my tasty decaf, yes getting up there in age has finally got me drinking decaf on occasion don't judge 😃

I love catching up on the stories you all share, the crazy posts about politics, and whatever other wild stuff is taking place around us all.

Even though the world is not a perfect place, it is that much better because you are in it. That is the reality I see from everyone I've kept in touch with, and to the new friends I've made over time.

Saludos y abrazos para todos, y'all made my day that much better. I got to spend time with my best friend, wife, and amazing mother to our children.

My boys smiling beautiful faces reminded me of what life is all about. To top it off they got me real good. Someone was cutting onions up in here on my birthday.

It was a reminder that they (our children) watch us more than we will ever know, they admire us more than we will ever understand. We think that we are setting the example for them. When in reality it is our children that set the example for us as they will be the ones who change the world one day.

You might ask what got you all choked up? I'll share part of the speech that did for me. Then my oldest reminded me of the first word that he said to me/us, "Happy!"

It was a reminder that we all have struggles in life and it is ok, to falter but to never give up, that is our family motto, "Aguilar's Don't Give Up!" I think that you might like this part of the Speech that made me realize the most important thing in life is family (familia)!

Always know that just because you may be different, it by no means, means that you are any less! That was taken from Temple Grandin with a little remix on the wording.

Back to the speech that got me, coming back home from the date with my lovely wife, when I thought things couldn't get any better.

My boys were smiling, grinning, and waiting for me to show emotion. As I began to read the poem. I looked at their pictures and realized how fast time flies. I gave the poem to my wife as I tried to gain composure but it wasn't happening lol.

It is a famous speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt and imagine looking at pictures of your children when they were younger. During a time, when you didn't know how you were going to provide for them. So you made the most obvious but difficult choice, doing something that you are not good at.

Something that you always forget no matter how long you have been doing it. Not because you are not capable of doing what you have done for years but because you finally accept the fact you have a disability(ies) but that doesn't stop you from seeing things through no matter how difficult and frustrating it may always be.

It is because the ones you love so much depend on you not because they need more monetary things in life. Far from it all they want to see, is the one(s) they look up to smiling again and to just be "Happy!"

Here is the speech and I think you might enjoy it as much as I did ...

The Man in the Arena

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly;

who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds;

who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause;

who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly,

so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Love going hiking and sometimes coming across some rattlesnakes.This one was crossing the road, so I got out to persuade...
08/03/2024

Love going hiking and sometimes coming across some rattlesnakes.

This one was crossing the road, so I got out to persuade it to move a bit faster.

Like 20 feet away, and then it gave me the side eye 😁☕️🤟💙

Latest 208 Westside Sessions that I’m thinking you might like. I don’t keep these mixes up for more than a few months th...
06/09/2024

Latest 208 Westside Sessions that I’m thinking you might like. I don’t keep these mixes up for more than a few months then take them down.

If you have mixes you’ve liked that were taken down I can always shoot them over in a zip file.

All these tracks were purchased legally from Traxsource. Some straight dope music, that just does the trick for me.

I really have never been one to just keep playing old tracks.

That’s not keeping it fresh, music is so inexpensive these days there really isn’t an excuse to steal music.

I remember when all I would do was music and I still had the same philosophy. If the choice was good or music, heck give me some Ramen as long as I had that real live s**t!

https://on.soundcloud.com/3msJYg6K6YqqJfCL9

The most liberating thing in the world when it comes to being an artist from my perspective at least.Is knowing that you...
05/18/2024

The most liberating thing in the world when it comes to being an artist from my perspective at least.

Is knowing that you can always have reach a broader national and global presence if you believe in what you do.

It’s the most loneliest place trust me but in the isolation you create something that you can’t even inagine.

It ties into what everyone is always on about “Knowing Your Worth”. We all set our price when expressing ourselves as artists.

In my case I’d never compromise my sound and everything my wife sacrificed so that I could do music. When it was all I was doing. On the flip side.

It’s great to see things coming back around, it’s that typical cyclical thing.

Fortunately I have proofs of work so I don’t have to lie to kick it.

Which is the most beautiful thing, knowing that somewhere someone outside your local “scene” is either playing your music or dancing to it.

Now imagine if I had played the local scene politics, there would have never been a Treasured Grooves or that 208 Westside sound.

So what I’m saying is, don’t take advice from those that have never done more than what you have accomplished in music.

Don’t let them steal your light, don’t do them any favors be selfish and do you.

At the end of the day music is nothing but nickles and dimes but it is truly common sense. That’s if you are willing to get pass the facade.

If I’m going to be surrounded by smoke and mirrors. Then I’d rather be in a dark room with nothing but raw underground house coming at ya.

It’s all about the music, it’s how someone like me can speak to others without ever saying a word.

Feeling this one, it’s got that zombie funk to it, that true GZhomb Funk.

Keep grinding y’all, don’t let no one tell you otherwise! If your s**t is dope, like a good friend once told me. The world will listen 🤟💙☕️

Check it out 15 years of Seventy Four. That original 208 underground house sound coming at ya. Created from isolation an...
05/17/2024

Check it out 15 years of Seventy Four.
That original 208 underground house sound coming at ya. Created from isolation and knowing that I always have to pay homage to my bay area roots.

From the 408 to the 208 my house sound has never been watered down. Just that raw 4 to floor house vibe, chorizo free music.

Give it a listen and pick it up if you didn’t the first time around.

Saludos y abrazos grandes para todos. Thanks for your continued support while I’ve been away. Nothing but love for the ones who have been with us since day one.

Another one coming out on the compas label.It’s always been just about the music for me since day one. Love the fact tha...
05/12/2024

Another one coming
out on the compas label.

It’s always been just about the music for me since day one. Love the fact that Rich has always been a real one since day one 🤟💙☕️

Made it home time to enjoy a taste of my childhood growing up in San Jo!Let’s go 😁🤟💙
04/21/2024

Made it home time to enjoy a taste of my childhood growing up in San Jo!

Let’s go 😁🤟💙

Death grip on my beverage as I wait for these tasty treats it’s been a long minute.People that are complaining about a l...
04/21/2024

Death grip on my beverage as I wait for these tasty treats it’s been a long minute.

People that are complaining about a long line, price abc all that.

1. Don’t be fickle
2. Get out of your vehicle if you can swing it, go in and order
3. Enjoy it with an open mind 🤟💙☕️

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