BEATZ & BOBZ VOLUME 3 > TAYO

BEATZ & BOBZ VOLUME 3 > TAYO

Tayo has been one of the breaks scene's biggest players since day one. He can safely lay claim to helping shape the nu skool sound in the late 90's alongside fellow breaksters Adam Freeland and Rennie Pilgrem, who together promoted the genre forming Friction parties at Bar Rhumba & The End in London. He was also pinnacle in promoting the breaks scene to a much larger audience through his work as a journalist writing reviews and reviewing club nights, as well as through working as a press officer, promoting labels and artists including The Stanton Warriors, Lee Coombs, Meat Katie, Krafty Kuts and of course Australian act Nubreed.

His DJ sets and production skills have been heard the world over, with some of the most memorable having been at Beatz & Bobz nights, the UK's longest running monthly breaks event. Since 2000, Tayo has been commissioned by Distinctive to mix two of their critically acclaimed Y4K compilations and also mixed the first MOB Deep Compilation on his own label Mob Records. Tayo has built a massive following in Australia where he has toured in January for the last four years. Tayo also regularly plays around Europe, especially Spain and Ibiza and his Dread at the Controls show on London's Kiss FM has provided a weekly Mecca for breaks fans all over the world, enabling them to hear the unmistakable floor-filling sounds of Tayo.

'Beatz & Bobz' is a rough shot ride into the world of Tayo, showing some of his dub influences through tracks such as Smith & Mighty's 1995 classic 'Down In Rwanda' and also Mykal's 'Rose No Burial' (Rob Smith Remix) which is raw beats for the serious heads. The mix album also features plenty more big tunes from big names within this flourishing scene, such as Freq Nasty and Aquasky, all perfectly mixed into 60 minutes of killer beats. Recent sets at Meat Katie & Rennie Pilgrem's night Hum and The Glade Festival saw the album road-tested with fantastic results.

As you would expect, it is two doses of funk mixed with ragga and some really interesting and cool new breaks tunes sure to do the business over the coming months.

Track Listing:

01. Smith & Mighty / Down In Rwanda / K7 Records
02. Mykal Rose / No Burial (Rob Smith remix) M Records
03. Tayo meets Precision Cuts Downtown / Breakbeat Girl / FB
04. Romantica / Romantica / Romantica Records
05. Care In The Community / Badness Can't Work / FB
06. Tayo meets Acid Rocks Uptown / Shorty The Pimp / Mob
07. Breakneck / Uplink / TCR
08. Freq Nasty / Come Let Me Know (acapella) / Skint
09. Aquasky / War (instrumental) / Moving Shadow
10. Backdraft Labrat (VIP mix) / Passenger
11. Ed 209 / Infectious / Wireframe
12. Uncouth Youth / Malaga Airport / Mechanoise
13. Tayo meets Acid Rockers Uptown / Bloodline dub / Skint
14. Jean Jacque Smoothie / Keep It Moving (Ben & Lex Mix) Plastic Raygun Tags

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