Tuesday, 24 June 2008
Dabrye
Artist: Dabrye
Genre(s):
Rap: Hip-Hop
Discography:
Two/Three
Year: 2006
Tracks: 20
Additional Productions, Vol. 1
Year: 2005
Tracks: 8
Dabrye is one of the aliases of Tadd Mullinix, an Ann Arbor, MI-based producer wHO carven a recession in the IDM community with early 2001's Nictitation Makes a Face (released under his possess name), a misrepresented record album that blended a crazy sense of sense of humour with real emotion. Later that year, Mullinix unveiled Dabrye with One/Three, the get-go of a three-part series that skews fractured hip-hop production. Falling into a categorical underworld, tracks from One/Three enjoyed frequent rotation on tastemaker Gilles Peterson's BBC radio programme, and "Hyped-Up Plus Tax" was finally licenced by Motorola. Instrmntl followed on Scott Herren's (Prefuse 73) Eastern Developments pronounce in 2002. Singles "The Payback" (featuring a Prefuse 73 remix) and "Plot Over" (a collaboration with Jay Dee and Phat Kat) were respectively released in 2002 and 2004, and various remixes for other artists were compiled for 2005's Additional Productions, Vol. 1. Two/Three, featuring several invitee MCs, followed in 2006.
Gus Till