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  • DJ Taye 'Still Trippin' - Cargo Records UK

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    DJ Taye 'Still Trippin'

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    DJ Taye 'Still Trippin'

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    A generation younger than the founders of the Teklife crew, DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn, DJ Taye was originally a rapper and beat maker before hooking up with the collective and jumping into the world of footwork production and DJing. However, it was Rashad's untimely passing in 2014 that was the unlikely catalyst for developing the sounds and ideas for this album. He says, "When Rashad passed away I felt inspired to continue evolving the music that I loved so much coming up in this world. So, I had to do something - ¦make something brand new."

    100% committed to pushing further the potential of the footwork template, Still Trippin'is ambitious in its range and scope. Taking two years to formulate, the record broadens the possibilities of the sound, forcing it to adapt to songwriting, and also revives Taye's talent for MCing and producing beats to which he can rap and sing. Furthermore Taye definitely ups the ante with his complex and precise drum programming, never losing sight of footwork's ability to confound.

    The album features a range of guests that span contemporary music; the eccentric, instructive rapping of Chuck Inglish of Detroit duo the Cool Kids is featured on Get It Jukin', Odile Myrtil, a young vocalist from Montreal, lends her smokey soul to Same Sound', Fabi Reyna, the editor of the celebrated women's guitar magazine She Shreds, sings and plays bass and rhythm guitar on I Don't Know'and Jersey club queen UNIIQU3 offers production and rapping on Gimme Some Mo'.Also, Teklife members DJ PayPal and DJ Manny assist on production, and DJ Lucky is a guest MC on Smokeout'.

    Taye is ambitious in his hopes for the album; "I took this as an opportunity to not have boundaries with footwork. Different approaches to our underground'sound to make it broader. It's only underground until it crosses that visible threshold.' This album brings all of this to the forefront.

    Tracklisting:
    1. 2094
    2. Trippin'
    3. Need It (ft DJ Manny)
    4. Smokeout (ft DJ Lucky)
    5. Same Sound (ft Odile Myrtil)
    6. 9090
    7. Anotha4 (ft DJ Manny)
    8. Bonfire (ft DJ Paypal)
    9. The Matrixx (ft DJ Manny)
    10. Get It Jukin'(ft Chuck Inglish)
    11. Pop Drop (ft DJ Paypal)
    12. Gimme Some Mo (ft UNIIQU3)
    13. Truu (ft DJ Paypal)
    14. Closer 15. I'm Trippin'
    16. I Don't Know (ft Fabi Reyna)

    Release Date: 2018-03-02
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  • DJ Taye 'Move Out EP' - Cargo Records UK

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    DJ Taye is welcomed back to Hyperdub for his second EP on the label after last year's popular Break It Down'EP and a North American tour with Jessy Lanza. The Move Out'EP is a masterclass in a distinctly soulful, dusky footwork sound with a melancholic undercurrent that's crossed with a precise eye for detail.

    Burnin Ya Boa'ft DJ Manny opens the EP with a crisp, micro-edited arrangement of tumbling piano, dubbed out chants and a heart-tugging woodwind melody playing hide and seek with racing, ever-changing footwork drum and bass patterns.

    Go 2 Sleep'ft DJ Earl rolls with a narcoleptic woody percussion loop, and a vocal urging 'Please go to sleep', a request which is challenged with drill sounds, rave stabs, energetic footwork drums, and soft bass tones.

    The super minimal I Need I Want ft DJ Manny & DJ Spinn takes a house acapella and spins it into something more urgent and compulsive, the vocalist's insistent, addicted pleas met with a downcast, tumbling melody.

    Move Out'ends the EP on a brighter note, with big Detroit techno chords and a warm Moog-like solo-cum-melody.

    The Move Out'EP is just a taster for the avalanche of new DJ Taye material forthcoming in 2017.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Burnin Ya Boa (ft. DJ Manny)
    2. Go 2 Sleep (ft. DJ Earl)

    Side B:
    1. I Need I Want (ft. DJ Manny & DJ Spinn)
    2. Move Out
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  • DJ Taye 'Break It Down EP' - Cargo Records UK

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    DJ Taye is one of Chicago Footwork crew Teklife's youngest producers, stepping up with his first full release for Hyperdub after some impressive tracks on the Hyperdub 10.1'and Next Life'compilations. 


    The Break It Down'EP is invigorating from the word go. On the relentless stargate of 'Go Away' with DJ Paypal, smooth funk is chipmunked and chopped into a thousand digital shivers and starbursts over a tough grid of drums.

    'That Love' featuring Tripletrain and DJ Manny is all romantic coos and seesawing keyboard riffs, micro-edited, stretched, chopped and spring -loaded in and out of comprehension.

    XTCC'in contrast is minimal and mournful, with the repeated phrase 'There's a void where there should be ecstasy' over drums that cut from half to double time, over a blanket of bass with sad chords slowly coming in towards the end.

    'Break It Down' flips a ferocious yet minimal vocal cut up, coiled around a bristling vortex of detailed drum edits, before a goofy melody brings it to a close.

    Tracklisting:
    Side A:
    1. Go Away ft DJ Paypal
    2. That Love ft Tripletrain & DJ Manny

    Side B:
    1. XTCC ft DJ Earl
    2. Break It Down ft DJ Earl

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