Footwork is, first and foremost, dance music. At least that’s what it is in Chicago’s converted warehouses and rec centers where combatant footworkers form circles and take turns battling, dozens-style, with dazzlingly complex foot patterns. But while this signifyin’ form of dance has yet to be shrinkwrapped and sold, the jagged shrapnel from the actual music has crossed geographical borders and social cliques so incisively that, from the perspective of everyone outside the circles, its origins are beside the point. If footwork’s original meaning was established in these underground dance circles in Chicago, then its currency to everyone else now rests somewhat heavily on those too busy rationalizing the noise/music cleavage or politely tracing dance music’s trajectory to actually do any footworking themselves. I know this because I’m one of them. I don’t live far away from Chicago, the city where 90s ghetto house transfigured into juke and (due largely to tracks like “11-47-99” and “Baby Come On” by RP Boo) subsequently birthed its disfigured mutant child, footwork. But as with non-Western musics — say, Shangaan music (new wave dance music from South Africa) — my relationship with footwork is conflicted: Any enjoyment I get out of listening to it hinges on attaching my own values to music that otherwise resists, detracts, or is simply indifferent to such readings.
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But given the confrontational style of footwork dance, it seems like any conflict, physical or not, is welcome. After all, this music isn’t about fucking; this is battle music: violent, propulsive, and visceral, and it’s internalized brilliantly within “Ghost,” the intro track to DJ Rashad’s Just A Taste. Here, Rashad, a key member of the Ghettoteknitianz DJ crew and pioneer of juke/footwork, bursts out of the gates with stuttering sub bass, piercing hi-hat, stabbing snare hits, and X-Acto knife’d samples, all pitched to a frantic 160 BPM. When the beat kicks in, it’s over; no matter what your opinion of the song or footwork in general, this shit penetrates so deeply that your body has to react to it. By the time Rashad drops a sample of Nas’ “Still Dreaming,” which is at odds with the ice-cold beats he’s thus far commanded (it’s half the tempo, mind you), it’s clear that the sheer momentum of the rhythmic interplay and tonal disparities would destroy any critical commentary you could muster up. Any tension here exists to soundtrack dance circles, not intellectual tautologies.
Not that Just A Taste doesn’t inspire critical analysis. The album, quietly released earlier this year (with a stream appearing in December 2010), specifically emphasizes Rashad’s footwork music, similar to the latter half of its sister album Grace and selected tracks from Jukeworkz, among others. Consequently, there are less juke’d-out party-pleasing tracks here and more fidgety paranoia, which also means less accessibility and more abstraction — more nightmare. “[The] juke I make is more commercial,” said Rashad in an interview. “Footwork is more the raw. I express myself more in the footwork area and it more raw, there’s no law. Juke has to be DJ and radio friendly.” And indeed, there’s no law: “You Azz,” perhaps the most minimal track on here, unfolds slowly and hypnotically, sounding like Steve Reich opening the bruise up and letting some of the bruise blood come out. With help from King AG, “Make It Happen” takes dissonance to the circle, hand claps shooting daggers through the chest with deep bass growling like a wolf pac terra squad. “Love You,” a track made with DJ Lucky, is a clear standout, layering beats and samples with little care for aesthetic cohesion, much less beat alignment. The song later breaks into a breathtaking, chaotic sequence of layered samples, whiplashing me out of critical analysis before I can mutter “deconstruction.”
But Rashad’s abstractions don’t go quite as left of the dial as, say, DJ Roc’s deadly minimalism or Young Smoke’s spaced-out explorations. “Ghetto Tekz Runnin It,” the album’s most accessible track, even has a verse/chorus structure with Add-2 rapping on top. And rather than constructing the nervous twitch so common to footwork with expected mood-enhancing samples of Killer Instinct or Menace II Society, Rashad tempers much of the iciness with popular soul/R&B samples. You’ll hear Al Green (“IIIIIII HIIIIIIII”), Marvin Gaye (“Go Crazy”), Michael Jackson (“Love U Found”), and Gil Scott-Heron (“I’m Gone”), but Rashad is far from selling short the aesthetic of footwork. These samples are used to recruit, so to speak, to beckon more dancers to the circles, much in the way that juke producers appropriated mainstream hip-hop to acclimate listeners to the juke aesthetic (as Rashad himself has admitted). I’m guessing “We Run It” was created specifically with this in mind; starting off like some clarion call for a footwork death march, the track soon gets altered completely by a perfectly-timed, head-nodding sample of Roy Ayers’ “Still Searchin’,” causing the song to teeter on the extremes yet making no particular concessions to either.
The beauty of footwork is that it’s at once insular and social, artistic yet highly functional, gutted of meaning yet exploding with energy. Its experiments — if you can call them that — do not propel one through the cosmos on some transcendent mind trip; they uproot conventional notions of aesthetics simply through dance, a beautiful tradition that has long served modern music. The relative success of young artists like DJ Diamond, Young Smoke, and DJ Nate (many of whom are ancillary to the Chicago scene but have garnered international acclaim through outlets like YouTube) is a prime example of the possible ruptures that result from such an organic movement, while older producers like Traxman, DJ Clent, and DJ Spinn, who toughed it through ghetto house and juke, show just how much variety, richness, and craft is involved. (I haven’t even mentioned any dance crews, who have their own dense history.) Sure, Just A Taste is truly “just a taste” of the footwork experience, but there’s no emotional/ideological paradigm being established here, and you don’t have to ‘know’ anything about footwork’s formal elements, the artist’s intentions, or the context(s) through which socio-political readings are made possible. Whether you’re in a circle in Chicago or sitting at your desk, you can really only feel your way through this music.
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01. Ghost
02. Make It Happen (with King AG)
03. We Run It (with King AG)
04. Love You (with DJ Lucky)
05. Ghetto Tekz Runnin It (with Add-2)
06. IIIIIII HIIIIIIII
07. You Azz
08. Love U Found
09. Go Crazy (with DJ Spinn)
10. I’m Gone
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| Background information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Rashad Hanif Harden |
| Born | October 9, 1979 Hammond, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | April 26, 2014 (aged 34) Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Genres | Electronic, footwork, juke |
| Occupation(s) | Musician DJ |
| Years active | 1998–2014[1] |
| Labels | Teklife Hyperdub Juke Trax Ghettophiles Lit City Trax Planet Mu |
Rashad Harden (October 9, 1979 – April 26, 2014), known as DJ Rashad, was a Chicago-based electronic musician, producer and DJ known as a pioneer in the footwork genre[2] and founder of the Teklife crew.[3] He released his debut studio album Double Cup on Hyperdub in 2013 to critical praise. He died in April 2014 from a drug overdose.[4]
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Biography[edit]
Career[edit]
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Born in Hammond, Indiana on October 9, 1979, Rashad Hanif Harden was the son of Gloria and Anthony Harden.[5][6] He grew up on 159th Street in the southern part of Calumet City, a suburb of Chicago.[7][8] He developed an early interest in music and began to DJ in his early teens, influenced by house and juke.[9] In high school, Harden gained further DJ experience at the Kennedy-King College radio station WKKC.[10] He also became a member of local dance troupes, including the HouseOMatics, The Phyrm, and Wolf Pac. In 1992 he made his first public appearance as a DJ at his high school dance party jubilation.[11]
While attending Thornwood High School, Harden met Morris Harper (aka DJ Spinn) during homeroom class. The two began to spend time at each other's houses producing tracks and performing at parties.[11] Harden was one of the founders of the Teklife crew and developed the footwork style around dance battles in the Chicago metropolitan area.[10] His first recording released to vinyl was the track 'Child Abuse' on Dance Mania in 1998.[5] He gained further global attention after releasing his single 'Itz Not Rite' on Planet Mu and being included on their Bangs and Works album in 2010.[5]
In 2013, Harden released the EPs I Don't Give a Fuck and Rollin' on Kode9's Hyperdub label. These were followed by the debut full-length album Double Cup (2013), which featured collaborations with DJ Spinn, Taso, DJ Phil, Manny, Earl and Addison Groove.[5] He was one of the performers at the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago in 2013 and completed support-slot on the tour of Chance the Rapper in December 2013.[12] His last performance as a DJ was at Club Vinyl in Denver, CO on April 24, 2014.[5]
Death[edit]
On Saturday, April 26, 2014, Harden was found dead at an apartment on West 21st Street, Chicago.[12][13] An autopsy confirmed that the death was drug related, with heroin, cocaine and alprazolam (Xanax) being found in Rashad's system.[14]
A variety of artists paid tribute to Rashad, with Vice writing that 'Rashad will undoubtedly be remembered as one of contemporary dance music's most innovative stylists and most irreplaceable presences.'[15] On June 29, 2015, Hyperdub released the 6613 EP, a four-track EP of previously unheard tracks by DJ Rashad. Afterlife was Harden's last album. It featured previously unreleased songs in collaboration with other members of the Teklife crew. It was released on April 8, 2016, as the first release of the new Teklife Records label.[16]
Discography[edit]
Albums[edit]
- Juke Trax Online Vol. 3 (2006)
- Something 2 Dance 2 (2008)
- Just a Taste Vol. One (2011)
- Teklife Volume 1 – Welcome to the Chi (2012)
- Double Cup (2013)
- Afterlife (2016)
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Singles and EPs[edit]
- 2004: 'Girl Bust Down' (with DJ Spinn; Juke Trax)
- 2004: The White Tees EP (with DJ TY; Juke Trax)
- 2007: 'Jukestacy' (Juke Trax Online)
- 2007: 'Send It Up' (Juke Trax Online)
- 2007: 'Get It Shorty' (Juke Trax Online)
- 2008: 'We Break It Down' (with DJ Chi Boogie; Juke Trax Online)
- 2008: 'You Know What It Is' (Juke Trax Online)
- 2008: Juke Trax Online Vol. 13 (Juke Trax Online)
- 2008: 'Imma Do Me' (Juke Trax Online)
- 2008: 'Freakin Me on the Flo' (Juke Trax Online)
- 2008: 'Tek-9' (Databass Online)
- 2010: 'Grace' (Ghettophiles)
- 2010: '4 the Ghetto' (with DJ Spinn; Ghettophiles)
- 2010: 'Itz Not Rite' (Planet Mu)
- 2011: 'Meet Tshetsha Boys' (with DJ Spinn and RP Boo; Honest Jon's Records)
- 2013: I Don't Give a Fuck (Hyperdub)
- 2013: 'Its Wack' (Grand Theft Auto V)
- 2013: Rollin' (Hyperdub)
- 2014: 'We on 1' (Southern Belle Recordings)
- 2014: 'Don't This Ish' (with Alix Perez and DJ Spinn, Exit Records/Mixmag)
- 2014: 'Make It Worth' (with Alix Perez and DJ Spinn, Exit Records)
- 2015: '6613' (Hyperdub)
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See also[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^'Hyperdub release statement on the death of DJ Rashad'. FACT Magazine. April 28, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
- ^'BBC item' Entertainment Newsdesk, 'Chicago's DJ Rashad found dead', BBC News, April 27, 2014
- ^'TEKLIFE001 : AFTERLIFE - RIP DJ RASHAD'. Teklife57.com.
- ^'DJ Rashad cause of death: Autopsy reveals musician died after drug'. The Independent. August 8, 2014.
- ^ abcde'Pitchfork news' Amy Phillips and Evan Minsker, 'DJ Rashad Autopsy Inconclusive', Pitchfork Media, April 28, 2014
- ^'Passings: Michael Heisley, DJ Rashad'. Los Angeles Times. April 28, 2014. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
- ^Greg Kot (April 27, 2014). 'DJ Rashad dead; dance music innovator Rashad dead at 34'. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
- ^'Q&A with DJ Rashad'. Rhythmtravels.com. March 27, 2014.
- ^'Autopsy: DJ Rashad, music innovator, died of accidental drug overdose'. Chicago Tribune. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
- ^ ab'Suntimes newsitem'Archived April 29, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Becky Schlikerman, Mark Guatino & Brandon Wall, 'House music, footwork icon DJ Rashad found dead on South Side', Chicago Sun-Times, April 26, 2014
- ^ ab'Billboard – incl. official statement' Harley Brown, 'DJ Rashad Dead at 34 (Update)', Billboard, April 28, 2014.
- ^ ab'Chicago Tribune Newsreport'Archived April 27, 2014, at the Wayback Machine Ernest Wilkins and Carlos Sadovi, 'Chicago juke pioneer DJ Rashad reportedly dead' Chicago Tribune, April 26, 2014
- ^'DJ Rashad has died'. FACT Magazine. April 27, 2014. Retrieved April 27, 2014.
- ^Gordon, Jeremy (August 7, 2014). 'DJ Rashad Died of Drug Overdose, Autopsy Confirms'. Pitchfork Media. Retrieved August 8, 2014.
- ^Kramer, Kyle. 'DJ Rashad Has Died'. Noisey. Retrieved May 3, 2017.
- ^Records, TEKLIFE. 'TEKLIFE001 : AFTERLIFE - RIP DJ RASHAD'. teklife57.com. Retrieved March 29, 2016.
External links[edit]
- DJ Rashad at AllMusic
- DJ Rashad discography at Discogs
- DJ Rashad on SoundCloud
- DJ Rashad discography at MusicBrainz