TA-KU & THERON NOBLE PRESENT: THE WERAQ BEAT TAPE
Author: Dunn-D | Filed under: OkiZoo Blog
In the middle of 2007 was the first time I had ever heard the sounds of Perth, Australia’s Reggie “Ta-ku” Mathews production. The first thing I though was, WOW this dude really digs. I heard so many plush vintage sounds through his work. The drums were hard, the chops were brilliant, the bass was booming. I immediately knew he had what it took to go very far with his music. In a hip hop industry that is very fickle nowadays, he also proved to be a genuine person. OkiZoo has since then collaborated on various projects such as his Different Spaces LP which you will be hearing on blog.okizoo.com in the near future. Ta-ku has attended the prestigious and exclusive Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona, Spain in 2008 and taken home the crown in The Speak Easy Beat Down Battle in Perth for 2 years in a row. Perhaps the culmination of how fond we were for Ta-ku and his skills came from the admiration of OkiZoo’s own Theron Noble aka DJ Jam On. Theron has a very deep catalog of old soul records that he transfers from vinyl to his computer. While enlisted in the US Marine Corps (Semper Fi till we die) stationed in Iraq, Theron began sending samples to Ta-Ku and one by one Ta-Ku would weave his magic until it was a new creation. Thus THE WERAQ BEATAPE was born. A collaboration between Ta-ku’s recording home Paper Chain Records, OkiZoo, and distributed locally in Perth Australia by Highs and Lows boutique, this instrumental beat odyssey takes a “J Dilla – Donuts”  type direction where the soul of the sample is left intact and the drums are used as a vehicle to power the new chops. This collection of instrumentals are soulful from front to back. So download it here and get ready to enjoy this 48 minutes of Ta-ku beats!!!
Download: TA-KU & THERON NOBLE PRESENT: THE WERAQ BEATAPE
Reggie “Ta-ku” Mathews
Theron “Jam On” Noble
Nixons
Dunn-D
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