DJ Elmoe
Battle Zone
Boomkat Product Review:
Chicago Footwork OG, DJ Elmoe, answers his call-up to Planet Mu with a fully fledged dolo debut displaying all his stripes, from dirge-like laments to Actress-esque asymmetries and hazed-out battle trax - big TIP!
On ‘Battle Zone’ DJ Elmoe showcases footwork at its weirdo outlier best, where the sound works to an entirely unique sense of physics and computerised soul that you simply know when you hear it. Whilst often imitated but rarely bettered by anyone outside the circle of Southside Chicago and Illinois, footwork emerged to the wider consciousness in the late ‘00s as one of this century’s most singular and influential sounds, primarily with thanks to the likes of ‘Bangs & Works Vol. 1: A Chicago Footwork Compilation’, where Elmoe’s icy gem ‘Whea Yo Ghost At, Whea Yo Dead Man’ stood out a mile for its haunting vocal and trenched subs. If Planet Mu’s promo text isn’t bullshitting, the now 32 y.o. Jonathan Tapp aka Elmoe wrote that tune in his mid teens, and has been on it, as dancer turned producer, since a pre-teen, and now follows that line to properly mesmerising ends on this album.
Footwork is framed at its most distinctive and zoned in/out on all 15 parts, from the sublime, hypnagogic traction of ‘Banging Vox’ to the elegantly spine twisting sign-off ‘Battle Zone’ with its typewriter commands and beautifully spooked out, pitching melody. Trust us minds will get spanked with the squirming soul strobe of ‘The Show Arrived’ thru the bossa nova samples severed and sifted into ‘Yes I Do’ or the ace ‘BouG’, and on to an Eccojams-esque H-pop chop up ‘This Way’, or laced-untying freakiness in ‘The Baker’ and the baroque soul whorls of ‘Ina Rain’, or an outstanding ‘Wander Nights’ that sounds like Actress banging his computer footwork style, or a ‘Give It To Em’ going like Carl Stone meets Robocop.
No messing this is some of the best in class, properly reminding to the raw thrill of first hearing footwork back in like ’08/’09.
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Boomkat Product Review:
Chicago Footwork OG, DJ Elmoe, answers his call-up to Planet Mu with a fully fledged dolo debut displaying all his stripes, from dirge-like laments to Actress-esque asymmetries and hazed-out battle trax - big TIP!
On ‘Battle Zone’ DJ Elmoe showcases footwork at its weirdo outlier best, where the sound works to an entirely unique sense of physics and computerised soul that you simply know when you hear it. Whilst often imitated but rarely bettered by anyone outside the circle of Southside Chicago and Illinois, footwork emerged to the wider consciousness in the late ‘00s as one of this century’s most singular and influential sounds, primarily with thanks to the likes of ‘Bangs & Works Vol. 1: A Chicago Footwork Compilation’, where Elmoe’s icy gem ‘Whea Yo Ghost At, Whea Yo Dead Man’ stood out a mile for its haunting vocal and trenched subs. If Planet Mu’s promo text isn’t bullshitting, the now 32 y.o. Jonathan Tapp aka Elmoe wrote that tune in his mid teens, and has been on it, as dancer turned producer, since a pre-teen, and now follows that line to properly mesmerising ends on this album.
Footwork is framed at its most distinctive and zoned in/out on all 15 parts, from the sublime, hypnagogic traction of ‘Banging Vox’ to the elegantly spine twisting sign-off ‘Battle Zone’ with its typewriter commands and beautifully spooked out, pitching melody. Trust us minds will get spanked with the squirming soul strobe of ‘The Show Arrived’ thru the bossa nova samples severed and sifted into ‘Yes I Do’ or the ace ‘BouG’, and on to an Eccojams-esque H-pop chop up ‘This Way’, or laced-untying freakiness in ‘The Baker’ and the baroque soul whorls of ‘Ina Rain’, or an outstanding ‘Wander Nights’ that sounds like Actress banging his computer footwork style, or a ‘Give It To Em’ going like Carl Stone meets Robocop.
No messing this is some of the best in class, properly reminding to the raw thrill of first hearing footwork back in like ’08/’09.
Boomkat Product Review:
Chicago Footwork OG, DJ Elmoe, answers his call-up to Planet Mu with a fully fledged dolo debut displaying all his stripes, from dirge-like laments to Actress-esque asymmetries and hazed-out battle trax - big TIP!
On ‘Battle Zone’ DJ Elmoe showcases footwork at its weirdo outlier best, where the sound works to an entirely unique sense of physics and computerised soul that you simply know when you hear it. Whilst often imitated but rarely bettered by anyone outside the circle of Southside Chicago and Illinois, footwork emerged to the wider consciousness in the late ‘00s as one of this century’s most singular and influential sounds, primarily with thanks to the likes of ‘Bangs & Works Vol. 1: A Chicago Footwork Compilation’, where Elmoe’s icy gem ‘Whea Yo Ghost At, Whea Yo Dead Man’ stood out a mile for its haunting vocal and trenched subs. If Planet Mu’s promo text isn’t bullshitting, the now 32 y.o. Jonathan Tapp aka Elmoe wrote that tune in his mid teens, and has been on it, as dancer turned producer, since a pre-teen, and now follows that line to properly mesmerising ends on this album.
Footwork is framed at its most distinctive and zoned in/out on all 15 parts, from the sublime, hypnagogic traction of ‘Banging Vox’ to the elegantly spine twisting sign-off ‘Battle Zone’ with its typewriter commands and beautifully spooked out, pitching melody. Trust us minds will get spanked with the squirming soul strobe of ‘The Show Arrived’ thru the bossa nova samples severed and sifted into ‘Yes I Do’ or the ace ‘BouG’, and on to an Eccojams-esque H-pop chop up ‘This Way’, or laced-untying freakiness in ‘The Baker’ and the baroque soul whorls of ‘Ina Rain’, or an outstanding ‘Wander Nights’ that sounds like Actress banging his computer footwork style, or a ‘Give It To Em’ going like Carl Stone meets Robocop.
No messing this is some of the best in class, properly reminding to the raw thrill of first hearing footwork back in like ’08/’09.
Boomkat Product Review:
Chicago Footwork OG, DJ Elmoe, answers his call-up to Planet Mu with a fully fledged dolo debut displaying all his stripes, from dirge-like laments to Actress-esque asymmetries and hazed-out battle trax - big TIP!
On ‘Battle Zone’ DJ Elmoe showcases footwork at its weirdo outlier best, where the sound works to an entirely unique sense of physics and computerised soul that you simply know when you hear it. Whilst often imitated but rarely bettered by anyone outside the circle of Southside Chicago and Illinois, footwork emerged to the wider consciousness in the late ‘00s as one of this century’s most singular and influential sounds, primarily with thanks to the likes of ‘Bangs & Works Vol. 1: A Chicago Footwork Compilation’, where Elmoe’s icy gem ‘Whea Yo Ghost At, Whea Yo Dead Man’ stood out a mile for its haunting vocal and trenched subs. If Planet Mu’s promo text isn’t bullshitting, the now 32 y.o. Jonathan Tapp aka Elmoe wrote that tune in his mid teens, and has been on it, as dancer turned producer, since a pre-teen, and now follows that line to properly mesmerising ends on this album.
Footwork is framed at its most distinctive and zoned in/out on all 15 parts, from the sublime, hypnagogic traction of ‘Banging Vox’ to the elegantly spine twisting sign-off ‘Battle Zone’ with its typewriter commands and beautifully spooked out, pitching melody. Trust us minds will get spanked with the squirming soul strobe of ‘The Show Arrived’ thru the bossa nova samples severed and sifted into ‘Yes I Do’ or the ace ‘BouG’, and on to an Eccojams-esque H-pop chop up ‘This Way’, or laced-untying freakiness in ‘The Baker’ and the baroque soul whorls of ‘Ina Rain’, or an outstanding ‘Wander Nights’ that sounds like Actress banging his computer footwork style, or a ‘Give It To Em’ going like Carl Stone meets Robocop.
No messing this is some of the best in class, properly reminding to the raw thrill of first hearing footwork back in like ’08/’09.
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