Detroit DJ and producer Kyle Hall has an excellent new release, Girl U so Strong/Take Me Away, out now on Hyperdub. Hall came of age during the cities’ second wave of techno innovation, and with music in his blood from birth, his mother is a professional singer, his Uncle Ray the legendary DJ Raybone, and his father having once owned a nightclub, Hall was immersed in creative pursuits from an early on! The young artist would go on to rise quickly through the cities DJ circuit, soon graduating to international gigs and festivals like Timewarp, Coachella, Stop Making Sense, and Source. Meanwhile, with the success of his Plastik Ambash 12″ in 2007, put out via Omar-S’ FXHE, Hall would form his own imprint, Wild Oats, as well as releasing records on Detroit’s Moods & Grooves, and the UK labels Third Ear Recordings and Hyperdub. Here, Hall follows up the perfectly essentialized techno of “Girl U so Strong” with an intriguing, left-of-field offering called “Take Me Away“. On that cut the cross-currents between the UK and the US can really be heard, as Hall takes apart techno’s groove, leaving it a few patches of random skitters and beeps to begin, and without the form’s 4/4 beat structure, this syncopated, 2-step rhythm, bears more in common with it’s kissing cousin from East London, dub-step!
