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Sweetchilli presents Kasey Taylor

Kasey Taylor is one of the most influential people in Australian dance music. He is certainly one of the most accomplished and now one of the most recognised on the global dance stage. Indeed, you might expect a few results if you started Dj’ing at the age of 13 as Kasey Taylor did, but the truth is that experience and practice will only get you so far and that at some stage it takes raw talent to turn the heads of the dance world.

As a DJ, there is very little that Kasey Taylor has not done. For the past ten years he has played almost every big gig in Melbourne and held residencies at every club of note. In particular, Kasey played an integral role in creating the magic that was the ‘Mansion’. A club that has gone down in the annals of dance history as one of the best to ever sit on the planet with just about every international DJ you could name at the time, playing guesting roles there. He has also played at all the major festivals in Australia like the Two Tribes festivals, Summadayze festivals, Renaissance and Global Underground festivals just to name a few, and supported the biggest DJ’s in the world on a regular basis. You can check out www.futureentertainment.com.au for a list of some of the events.

Kasey these days, now resides in Portugal , can be found devastating dance floors all over the globe, from Australia to Europe, America and Asia, there is not many places where Kasey Taylor hasn’t been. In fact, Kasey Taylor can be said to be one of Australia’s best dance exports. His most recent journeys have taken him to Japan for the Labyrinth Festival, Brasil for the Tribe & Psycho Garden (Sao Paulo), and Euphoria (Rio de Janeiro) festivals, Superclub in Argentina, along with Uruguay, Mexico, Street Parade in Zurich which has 1.2 million people, and gigs all over Europe.
These days, Kasey has the luxury of releasing his records on one of the world’s most respected labels, his own ‘Vapour Recordings’ which he founded in 1997 and now has around 50 releases under it’s belt. His time spent overseeing the label and production work has done more to establish the credibility of Australia in the international dance arena than pretty much any other Australian record label. Kasey Taylor and other Vapour tunes have consistently been in the boxes of the world’s leading DJs and featured on major CD’s around the globe. Kasey has done far more than just promote Vapour Recordings through his own work in the studio. With remixes for labels such as Bedrock, Rhythm Syndicate, SOG, Electric Music People, Feed me Records, Fade and many more under his belt.

It may well be that Vapour Recordings illustrates the greatest of Kasey’s attributes. His most recent collaborations are with Chris Meehan, now a partner in the label, and the Taylor & Meehan releases are in full swing at the moment.
With remixes for EQ records out of Australia of Form & Funktion’s ‘Wonderland’, Greed’s ‘Tea in the Sahara’ on SOGrecords, Sumanti’s ‘Imagination’ on Vapour Recordings and the most recent being Bluefish’s 'Been too Long' on Electric Music People, all available now. This production team is really making their mark.
They have also just remixed Parham & Dominic Plaza's forthcoming release on Fokused titled 'Once', and are in the middle of remixing the classic Greed track 'Promises', which has been kindly licensed to Vapour from SOGrecords for a mid 2005 release. Kasey has just started a second lable titled VapouRise, an off shoot of Vapour Recordings which will be more directed to a ‘anything goes’ sound. D Nox and Beckers and Can Costa are the two main additions to VapouRise and there releases are gaining a lot of attention around the world right now. And if that’s not enough, Kasey has also has an internet radio show on Proton Radio titled, ‘Vaporized’ which is featured on the 1st Tuesday of every month.

So what is it about Kasey’s music that has won him the respect of the dance community? If you really want to know, plant your feet on the dance floor for the full duration of a Taylor set.
You can talk about programming as Kasey effortlessly and subtlety changes gears from all genres of music, sucking you into his sound scape to a point where you look up all of a sudden and realise you’ve been lost in music for hours - You can talk about his astounding mixing which is so precise that you probably won’t even know whether a track is coming or going -You can talk about the fact that Kasey will be playing records weeks before anyone, You can talk about the fact that Kasey doesn’t compromise his sound and still remains accessible.

You can talk about a lot of things but at the end of the night it all comes down to one thing: Kasey Taylor has a scary understanding of dance music. He writes it, he plays it, he studies it and he lives it, so if you ever get the chance to go and hear a Kasey Taylor set, go and enjoy it!

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