DJ Nate - Da Trak Genious

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Dear Mother of God! Never I would have expect such a tour de force from Planet µ, the ultimate experimental dubstep label! This album redefines dubstep in every aspect, from the meticulous samples to the masterful beats in Da Trak Genious. This is an instant classic, a must buy! This is even Boomkat's album of the week! Hurry before someone else picks a copy before you do!

[karmakramer]

that album cover is the next draft.7.30 for me. I think I cummed when I heard the first 10 seconds of DJ Nate's majestic tunes

[luke viia]

STEP STEPSTEP STEPSTEPSTEPSTEPSTEPSTEPSTEPSTEPSTEP IN THE Circle.

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I would sincerely put DJ Nate in the same tier as J Dilla and DMZ.

[Guest Super lurker ultra V12]

can't stand more than 4 tracks

[Dan C]

Genious is genius.

[Guest Backson]

lolwut?

 

Whatum hated Juke with a passion six months ago, have you all backflipped?

[luke viia]

i really only like that one jam so far, i dunno. chipmunk vocals through the entire track is a bit much for me at the moment..

[sneaksta303]

‘Da Trak Genious’ is Planet Mu’s compilation of the Footwork tracks of DJ Nate, born Nathan Clark, a 20 year old artist who grew up in the westside of Chicago. He started making Footwork tracks 5 years ago, more recently turning his hand to Hip hop and R'n'B, and the album is an archive compilation of his productions.

 

This is Nate’s first ever worldwide album release. It’s essentially a selection of tracks that have come out on small edition cdrs and tracks posted on youtube and imeem. This is how Planet Mu first heard his music, which has gathered a small but enthusiastic band of followers and fans who have been itching to hear more from Nate and know more about the genre.

 

Footwork tracks are instrumental tracks made for Footwurking, or Jukin'; a dance style that’s local to Chicago that kids use to let off steam in group competitions with each other. It’s a distant relative of the competitive hip hop style of up-rocking but with frantic foot moves that have their roots in Jazz dancing.

 


The Footwork sound has its roots in Chicago House especially the accelerated ‘Ghetto’ house, and the influence and speed of the pioneering Ghetto house label 'Dance Mania' is clear: the tough sentiments and hip hop influence is all there, but the fast linear hypnotic 4x4 sound of those records has been re-calibrated and given an ultra-syncopated treatment to test dancers, the samples and repeated lines are pitch adjusted up and down giving the music a strange hypnotic feel.

 


These tracks have a unique drama and a pressure that is unique to Footwork but reminiscent of the edited drum syncopation of jungle and also hip hop cutting in DJ battles.

 

DJ Nate uses the basic palette of samples from pop and hip hop, pitched, layered and triggered into unusual edits, often edging into distortion, usually with a simple repeated phrase like ‘hatas our motivation’ used to pump up the dancers. This hypnotizing effect, combined with sparse 808 drum patterns, often with busy fills, relentless triplets and off-kilter accents, is used to create very different variations within his sound.

 

Tracks like ‘Back Up Kid’ and ‘You’re Gonna Love Me' work with modern r'n'b samples, while others like ‘Footowurk Homicide’ and ‘Fade Da Black Trak’ seem to echo their contemporary British sound of Grime. ‘Go Hard’, ‘Let The Beat Build’ and ‘Free’ reach back to earlier soul music, crossing half-time drums with slow, looped soul licks, while ‘A+ Mayhem’ pitch up or chipmunk emo tracks to hysterical effect. The mood, skill and ADD emotion across the album is difficult to get into first but after some listens the character and voice of DJ Nate’s unique productions comes across.

 

lol

[YEK]

i don't know what to think of this.... i'm waiting to be thrilled EANDN

[YEK]

ok this is fucking gayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy,

[luke viia]

thats racist

[YEK]

no, it's prejudiced

 

 

edit: i'm just fucking around

[Guest Echo]

fuckin masterpiece. album of the year.

[vamos scorcho]

i think it's pretty good

[impakt]

If by best you mean terrible shite and a fucking joke - then you are right.

[Guest Adam]

I would sincerely put DJ Nate in the same tier as Dj tiesto and Lady Gaga.

[Guest analogue wings]

Aphex Twin fans being all smug and superior about this record is pretty much the identical situation to Yes fans being smug and superior about the Ramones

[Guest Zykial]

i wish i had more hands so i could give this music four thumbs down

[Jaffa]

Nothing new to this, people like DJ Deeon and DJ Funk have been making tracks like this for fucking years on dancemania e.t.c The only noticeable difference here is the lack of any funk whatsoever and notable talent. This fucking sucks balls.

[karmakramer]

GENIOUS!

[noise]

Nothing new to this, people like DJ Deeon and DJ Funk have been making tracks like this for fucking years on dancemania e.t.c The only noticeable difference here is the lack of any funk whatsoever and notable talent. This fucking sucks balls.

 

totally. dj slugo did some stuff that is way way better than this shit too. this is just fucking ridiculous.

[Atop]

It is racist to hate on this album!

[Bambi]

Nothing new to this, people like DJ Deeon and DJ Funk have been making tracks like this for fucking years on dancemania e.t.c The only noticeable difference here is the lack of any funk whatsoever and notable talent. This fucking sucks balls.

 

Yea right, you're just saying this so you can pretend you know what's up, but DJ Deeon and Funk sound nothing like Nate's footwork tracks. They were ghetto house / juke producers working in the 4 on the floor bouncy Juke sound. Even other contemporary footwork music (DJ Roc, DJ Spinn etc) sounds nothing like Nate's tracks. On the subject of Dance Mania, only DJ Clent and DJ Chip can really lay claim to being originators, or progenitors of the footwork sound. They were making footwork tapes (cassette tapes) in the late 90s, I have lots of old Clent and Chip tracks from this era and they have some of the tom workout similarities, but it still sounds like Juke. After that it was Arpebu (RP Boo) who pretty much defined the footwork track template.

[Jaffa]

Nothing new to this, people like DJ Deeon and DJ Funk have been making tracks like this for fucking years on dancemania e.t.c The only noticeable difference here is the lack of any funk whatsoever and notable talent. This fucking sucks balls.

 

Yea right, you're just saying this so you can pretend you know what's up, but DJ Deeon and Funk sound nothing like Nate's footwork tracks. They were ghetto house / juke producers working in the 4 on the floor bouncy Juke sound. Even other contemporary footwork music (DJ Roc, DJ Spinn etc) sounds nothing like Nate's tracks. On the subject of Dance Mania, only DJ Clent and DJ Chip can really lay claim to being originators, or progenitors of the footwork sound. They were making footwork tapes (cassette tapes) in the late 90s, I have lots of old Clent and Chip tracks from this era and they have some of the tom workout similarities, but it still sounds like Juke. After that it was Arpebu (RP Boo) who pretty much defined the footwork track template.

 

I honestly couldn't give a flying fuck for whatever footwork is, as a genre, based purely on the sounds I'm hearing on this album. It doesn't do nothing for me, you're having a laugh if you think there aren't similarities between this style and any number of ghetto house records. It's basically ghetto house pitched up to +6. How NOW!