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Nitro Deluxe, the moniker of respected American house musician Manny Scretching Jr., was born on January 22, 1960, in Philadelphia, PA. He performed with various funk and jazz groups, including Sun Ra’s Arkestra, before signing with Cutting Records in New York City during the 1980s. Despite being blind and suffering from kidney failure, Nitro continued to write and record music with Nation Records in the final years of his life, producing material in house, hip-hop, and dancehall formats. His most famous track, "This Brutal House," released in 1986, is regarded as one of the defining early house tracks. His last release on the Cutting Records label was "Hypno House" in 1990. Nitro Scretching passed away on May 2, 2012, at the age of 52.

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