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Take Off Mode represents his pivot back to footwork. He’s been teasing one for a while, with occasional tweets promising the imminent arrival of Da Trak Genious 2, though, until now, he’d ...
19 kwi 2019 · DJ Nate Is Back on Trak. Not so long ago, the Chicago producer was stuck in a hospital bed, unable to move his legs. Now, he returns with his first footwork album in nearly a decade. By...
26 kwi 2019 · In an unexpected turn of events Planet Mu welcomes back DJ Nate for a new album "Take Off Mode", a full nine years after his debut album "Da Trak Genious" was released on the label. A quick update: DJ Nate is from the West Side of Chicago and was the label's first ever footwork signing back in 2010, when Myspace was still a place to contact ...
29 kwi 2019 · Perhaps the most experimental track on the album is the nine-second “Wat U Wont 2 Do”—and looped to its full potential it could have been as powerful as Treanor’s “ATAXIA D3.” Instead, Take Off Mode contents itself to bop and fidget within footwork’s established framework.
Take Off Mode demonstrates the same mastery of texture and mood as Da Trak Genious, albeit in a more concise, digestible package. Highlights come when DJ Nate mines a particularly haunting vein of melody ( Go Krazy ) or squeezes the bittersweet romance from his samples ( Talk 2 Me ), underpinning these qualities with a hard-bumping, raw ...
13 wrz 2010 · ‘Da Trak Genious’ is Planet Mu’s compilation of the Footwork tracks of DJ Nate, born Nathan Clark, a 20 year old artist who grew up in the westside of Chicago. He started making Footwork tracks 5 years ago, more recently turning his hand to Hip hop and R’n’B, and the album is an archive compilation of his productions.
19 lis 2010 · If Roc is fixated primarily on melody, then Nate's focus is more texture-based. Da Trak Genious is a tough front-to-back listen, and not just because it's so damn long; many of the...
