Nov 15 2008

Milk Chocolate

Milk Chocolate Cover Art

A later album, the sound was an experiment with more organic sounds. Smooth and funky was more the goal. A lot of Rhodes and vintage analog synths, plus horns and slap ass bass.

This record coincided with Tao Groove’s involvement with David Scott and The Logixhouse Collective, an international thinktank of musicians and artists. In 2004, Logixhouse helped to coordinate Windsor Ontario, CA’s branch of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (Movement 2004) with Derrick May.

  1. Fuzz Monkey
  2. Disko Stikka
  3. Instant Zen
  4. Shibba Baby
  5. Bombs Over Baghdad (Remix)
  6. It’s Still Coming Around
  7. Let It Rain Down On Me
  8. Get Up Offa That Thang (Remix)

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Nov 15 2008

Up

Up drum and bass, jungle, breakbeat, funk, electro, detroit, happy robot man

Up is a later release by Tao Groove. This period of intense attention to bass and beat came after the Unification event at Motor Lounge in Detroit. The event was just prior to the closing of Motor, so they atmosphere was relaxed and destructive. After cranking his booth monitor hotter than normal, the right booth monitor caught fire, and shortly thereafter, the whole right sub stack went out.

The realization that music could start fires sent Tao off in a basshunt direction.

Up is a transitional album, intense jungle drumwork and dustings of electro robotique. Quirked tracks like “happy robot man” and “sloppy feets” turn this entire album into a pretty eclectic blend that sounds more like a Various Artists compilation than a one man show.

FYI: Talks of a video for Happy Robot Man have surfaced.

  1. Burn The Stuntman
  2. Happy Robot Man
  3. Hostile
  4. RingoQuakeSoundsystemMassive
  5. Sloppy Feets
  6. Solenoid
  7. Two Nights In Egypt

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