Da Trak Genious

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1.	Back Up Kid 03:13	buy track
2.	U Ain't Workin Wit Nuthin 02:16	buy track
3.	Footwurk Homicide 02:48	buy track
4.	Turn Back Time 02:58	buy track
5.	Hatas Our Motivation 02:45	buy track
6.	Call Me When You're Sober 02:37	buy track
7.	My Heart 03:03	buy track
8.	You're Gonna Love Me 01:43	buy track
9.	It's Impossible 03:02	buy track
10.	Below Zero 02:49	buy track
11.	Fade Da Black Trak 03:14	buy track
12.	Halloween Wurks 03:16	buy track
13.	Ga Ga Lord R.I.P. 03:00	buy track
14.	3 Peat 02:51	buy track
15.	Let Me Show U Girl 01:44	buy track
16.	May Be Sum Day 03:13	buy track
17.	Go Hard 02:49	buy track
18.	A+ Mayhem 02:19	buy track
19.	Let Da Beat Build 03:31	buy track
20.	Sexual Healing 02:34	buy track
21.	He Ain't Bout It 02:27	buy track
22.	Free 02:53	buy track
23.	Lil Mama Bad As Hell 02:24	buy track
24.	Give Dat Man Room 02:24	buy track
25.	Poetry 04:26	buy track

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‘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 4×4 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 ‘Footwurk 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.

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released September 13, 2010

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