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| Kasey Taylor |
| Written by IS Team | |
| Friday, 02 May 2008 | |
 Kasey Taylor is one of the most influential people in Australian dance music. He is certainly one of the most accomplished and now one of the most recognised on the global dance stage. Indeed, you might expect a few results if you started Djing at the age of 13 as Kasey Taylor did, but the truth is that experience and practice will only get you so far and that at some stage it takes raw talent to turn the heads of the dance world.As a DJ, there is very little that Kasey Taylor has not done. In the years gone past he has played almost every big gig in Melbourne and held residencies at every club of note. In particular, Kasey played an integral role in creating the magic that was the Mansion. A club that has gone down in the annals of dance history as one of the best to ever sit on the planet with just about every international DJ you could name at the time, playing guesting roles there. He has also played at all the major festivals in Australia like the Two Tribes festivals, Summadayze festivals, Renaissance and Global Underground festivals just to name a few, and supported the biggest DJs in the world on a regular basis. Kasey these days, now resides in Portugal and can be found playing all across the globe, from Europe to Australia, South America to Asia, there is not many places where Kasey Taylor hasnt been. In fact, Kasey Taylor can be said to be one of Australias best dance exports. For years now, Kasey has the luxury of releasing his records on one of the worlds most respected labels, his own Vapour Recordings which he founded in 1997, and now has around 60 releases under its belt. His time spent overseeing the label and production work has done more to establish the credibility of Australia in the international dance arena than pretty much any other independent Australian record label. Kaseys tunes, along with ones he has signed for Vapour, have consistently been in the boxes of the worlds leading DJs and featured on major CDs around the globe. As Vapour Recordings has its fan base, Kasey decided to launch a second label titled VapouRise, formed in January 2005, which is the sister label of Vapour Recordings. This is more directed to a anything goes sound ranging between, house, Deep house, electro etc. D Nox and Beckers, Can Costa, Hernan Cerbello, LeRon, Yves Eaux, Luke Star and C-Jay are some of the main attractions to VapouRise. And if you dont think thats not enough, be sure to check out Kaseys slot on Proton Radio titled, Vaporized which is on the 1st Tuesday of every month and features guest mixes from top DJs around the world. It may well be that Vapour Recordings illustrates the greatest of Kaseys attributes. He has collaborated with people like Luke Chable, Greed, Andy Jarrod (Head of 3 beat Label Management), Barry Jamieson (Currently working with Sasha) and Jon Sutton (with both being the former owners of the classic Fluid Recordings label), with His most recent collaborations being with Chris Meehan. With Kasey now residing overseas, and having a year and a half off from all studio work, he has recently started producing solo again and you will start seeing some new productions soon. He has just completed a remix on the well known classic 'Promises' track by Greed, which has been kindly licensed to Vapour from SOGrecords for a late 2006 release, along with some new originals that are also just near completion. So keep your eyes out for a few new Taylor tunes popping up soon. So what is it about Kaseys music that has won him the respect of the dance community? If you really want to know, plant your feet on the dance floor for the full duration of a Taylor set. You can talk about programming as Kasey effortlessly and subtlety changes gears from all genres of music, sucking you into his sound scape to a point where you look up all of a sudden and realise youve been lost in music for hours - You can talk about his astounding mixing which is so precise that you probably wont even know whether a track is coming or going -You can talk about the fact that Kasey will be playing records weeks before anyone, You can talk about the fact that Kasey doesnt compromise his sound and still remains accessible. You can talk about a lot of things but at the end of the night it all comes down to one thing: Kasey Taylor has a scary understanding of dance music. He writes it, he plays it, he studies it and he lives it, so if you ever get the chance to go and hear a Kasey Taylor set, go and enjoy it! |
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