Tayo - Fabric Live 32 (Album)
My first DJ record review! All of a sudden I feel like I should have listened to some dance music between 2000 and now… As you will see, my electronic music knowledge stops there.
Tayo turn his hand to mixing it up for this latest installment of the Fabric Live Mix CDs. It is really a showcase of some of his favourite cheeky breaks tracks. It starts off dubby with slow and broken beats and we see that the original jungle drum kits are back in style. Indeed most of the whole record sounds a bit like a mid nineties rave slowed down.
A few tracks in some minimal tweeky bassed tracks having a run. Lots of quirk rather than leg work however and they don’t sound to danceable. The Bassbin Twins track is a fruity stand out. In most DJs sets you would expect a couple of weird and wobbly tracks but Tayo’s fabric mix tape is rife with them.
About halfway through the whole thing goes decidedly darkside. I was a big fan of darkside drum’n’bass in the late nineties but on this release it has been reinvented in breaks form. Slowed down and simplified. It doesn’t have the cheeky evil hooks that good darkside always had.
The whole record is very bass intensive, like all good dance music should be, which makes it hard to review without hearing it rattle my bones. To listen to IPod style is quite underwhelming.
Where are all the hooks, Tayo
