Tag: Dego

  • Nuts! EP – Dego

    Nuts! EP – Dego

    Following on from his collaboration with Kaidi Tatham for Eglo Records in earlier 2013, “Dego” McFarlane is putting out an EP on FaltyDL’s recently launched Blueberry Records. The New York-based record producer will be releasing Dego’s four-track Nuts! EP later this year. It’ll include three new Dego tracks, plus a FaltyDL remix. On this page […]

  • Better Than This (Dego & Kaidi 2000 Black Mix) – Paul Johnson

    Better Than This (Dego & Kaidi 2000 Black Mix) – Paul Johnson

    Paul Johnson is a wonderfully emotive UK-based singer, who has worked with everyone from the London Community Gospel Choir to Bluey Maunick of Incognito. Here, “Dego” McFarlane and Kaidi Tatham give Paul Johnson’s new single Better Than This a soulful, broken beat remix. The Better Than This EP, which includes a house remix from the […]

  • Dego & Kaidi EP – “Dego” McFarlane and Kaidi Tatham

    Dego & Kaidi EP – “Dego” McFarlane and Kaidi Tatham

    Listen to the new EP by broken beat maestros Dego and Kaidi on London-based label Eglo Records Eglo Records is run by Alexander Nut and Floating Points (aka Sam Shepherd). In the past four years, the London-based label has been experimenting at the artistic juncture where jazz meets soul, funk and electronica. The label has […]

  • Don’t Have Chairs That Look Nice… mix – Dego

    Don’t Have Chairs That Look Nice… mix – Dego

    Listen to an enigmatically entitled broken beat mix by Dego from 4hero and Silhouette Brown “Dego” McFarlane of 4hero and Silhouette Brown has released a broken beat mix enigmatically entitled Don’t Have Chairs That Look Nice But Are Not Comfortable To Sit In. Hmm. What is clear is that Dego is one of the most […]

  • Shokazulu album preview – Kaidi Tatham

    Shokazulu album preview – Kaidi Tatham

    The album cover may resemble a ’70s dub LP, but don’t let that fool you – Shokazulu is irie broken beats It’s not clear who the hell Shokazulu is because even on Shokazulu’s website, his or her identity hasn’t been revealed – but most musos suspect it’s keyboardist Kaidi Tatham, he of Silhouette Brown and […]

  • A Wha’ Him Deh Pon? album preview – Dego

    A Wha’ Him Deh Pon? album preview – Dego

    Previewing the new broken beat album by Dego of 4hero and Silhouette Brown fame The last time there was such a buzz surrounding an album was… well, the last time Dego produced an album. If you’re a fan of Dego‘s other projects — Silhouette Brown, 2000Black and 4hero — you won’t need much convincing to […]

  • Freeness Vol 2 / Forgot The Steel Pans – Dego – free music download

    Freeness Vol 2 / Forgot The Steel Pans – Dego – free music download

    Three free broken beat downloads from 2000Black, a label that’s home to Silhouette Brown and 4hero In between major releases, what better way to keep your name in the public’s eye than to give your fans free downloads — and that’s exactly what Dennis “Dego” McFarlane from 4hero is doing. As the name suggests, Freeness […]

  • 4hero presents EXTENSIONS – various artists (4hero)

    4hero presents EXTENSIONS – various artists (4hero)

    When an artist records someone else’s song in the pop world, it’s called a “cover”; the same thing in dance circles is a “remix”. Now, judging by this release, there’s a third category: an “extension”. Strictly speaking, it’s neither a cover nor a remix because the original artists — in this case, Marc Mac and […]

  • Two album review – Silhouette Brown

    Two album review – Silhouette Brown

    If you’re reading this review, you almost certainly belong to a clique of musos that already owns the eponymous debut album Silhouette Brown. Congratulations on unearthing that recording because Kaidi Tatham and Dego’s 2004 CD is among the world’s best kept secrets. It was the archetypal “cult hit” — fervently loved by few — and […]

  • In Search Of Hope album review – Kaidi Tatham

    In Search Of Hope album review – Kaidi Tatham

    Kaidi, like other broken beat practitioners, shuns the limelight. But if you’ve been paying attention during the past decade, you would’ve heard his Hancock-esque keyboard playing on tracks by Bugz In The Attic, 2000 Black, DKD and Silhouette Brown. In Search Of Hope is a departure from his previous work, being decidedly jazzier. Nothing wrong […]