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DJ C “Do Radly”

Experimental Party Music

 
“DJ C brings life-giving daring to his hybridized dance music on ‘Do Radly’” 
- Chicago Reader 
 
“Do Radly [is] a genre-hopping club album for the home; a late-lockdown album for dancing.”
- Utility Fog Radio, Sidney Australia

Notes

By Wayne Marshall

“On Do Radly … DJ C strips things to the root and brings his longstanding genre-spanning into new focus.”

Back when I first heard DJ C's beyond-category sets blaring across Mass Ave, his penchant for mixing hip-hop and jungle, reggae and garage was remarkable and rare in a town, and at a time, when more monolithic genre-based scenes prevailed. To hear hip-hop you'd go here, for reggae there, drum'n'bass over there, but to hear them all, you'd have to see DJ C, whose turn-of-the-millennium sets and early productions for Mashit deftly layered dancehall acapellas, double-time Amen breaks, chill room synths, the snap of boom-bap, and oddly apt pop tunes. Mixing and mashing these all together, DJ C has moved crowds while revealing common ground across worlds of music, opening up new possibilities for listening and dancing along together.

On Do Radly, a new album of homespun instrumentals, DJ C strips things to the root and brings his longstanding genre-spanning into new focus. While still shaped by an unending quest for musical discovery that leads him far and wide, these latest tracks are more built-from-scratch. They let us hear DJ C's signature synthesis of polyglot pop painted with a more recent, local palette: the soundscapes of everyday family life.

“Mixing and mashing [myriad styles], DJ C has moved crowds while revealing common ground across worlds of music, opening up new possibilities for listening and dancing along together.”

As digging in the crates meets digging in the sandbox, things close-at-hand come in handy: the lightness of a laptop with ever-timely synths & time-honored drum banks, yes, but also the stuff of daily diversions and lullabies — acoustic guitar, assorted percussion, toy piano, melodica, voice. We hear DJ C's hands at the wheels, tracks brimming with digital detail, but we also hear them on strings, making the most of things in realtime and space, doing radly, not least by giving us this new batch of bespoke beats equally fit for the club, the kitchen, or the virtual dance party.

A “New batch of bespoke beats equally fit for the club, the kitchen, or the virtual dance party.” 

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About DJ C

No genré is off limits as long as the music is magic.

“An alchemist of sound”
- Boston Magazine
 
“A pivotal figure”
- XLR8R Magazine
 
DJ C's “releases are killing dance-floors across Europe and the US.”
- John Peel, BBC Radio 1

“Innovative … clever … futuristic. Stop overthinking shit and go jump up and down.”
- The Chicago Reader
 
“DJ C aims “to explode stagnant musical categories—an approach he describes as ‘extreme genré blending.’”
- XLR8R Magazine

From mountain-top festivals in Japan to underground raves in London, weddings in Montreal to nightclubs in Prague, DJ C has rocked them all. But Chicago is where his heart lies and where he's been holed up in the lab brewing sonic cocktails that he's been known to describe as “experimental party music.”
 
He's released over 50 records on labels including XL Recordings, Ninja Tune, and Soul Jazz; produced tracks for vocalists like M.I.A. and Gregory Isaacs; shared production credits with the likes of Diplo and Quincy Jones; and played in bands like Cul de Sac and Tiger Saw.

He's also produced more than 20 records for his own Mashit label which legendary BBC Radio 1 host John Peel featured as a “Label of the Month” along with a DJ C session of Mahsit tracks.

More @ www.DJC.rocks