Coming from a highly musical family of jazz vocalists, opera singers and pianists (his uncle, Sir Roland Hanna, played with Benny Goodman and Duke Ellington), 19-year-old Kyle Hall is one of the current shooting stars of Detroit electronic music. Hall has been involved in Detroit's house music underground since age 11, when local DJ legend Raybone Jones taught him how to spin records. Subsequently mentored by Rick Wilhite and Mike Huckaby, he developed a unique style of rhythmically loose, free-floating house in his lo-fi basement studio, which first appeared on Omar S' FXHE label, and most recently on respected UK imprints Hyperdub and Third Ear Recordings.
This Maxi-Single is featured in Update #012:
Roska, SBTRKT, Ikonika
New sounds are taking over the airwaves: Old-school house chords, R&B vocals, and the light-footed grooves of UK garage are the ingredients that make up what some call UK funky, a style that's rapidly spreading from South London boroughs to Berlin techno clubs more...
You Know What I Feel
(Track 02 on this Maxi-Single)
Picked!
Detroit shooting star Kyle Hall follows up his recent remix for Darkstar with a brilliant solo single for Hyperdub. What might initially seem at odds - a teenage Detroit house producer on a London dubstep label - immediately makes sense when listened to: Two perfectly deep and synth-ladden tracks, laid out on top of light-footed grooves. Ace!