- In the US, Kentucky is where the Midwest crosses over to the South. Louisville and Lexington had small but ardent pockets of ravers in the '90s, so it stands to reason that the latter city would produce someone like Tommy Wilson. Last year, as Milyoo, Wilson made a bottom-heavy little EP called Dasein that sounded like the work of someone in the corner waiting to make a real move.
Kazaduon moves Milyoo closer to that goal, mainly because his approach has lightened some. The title cut cuts up an ululating female vocal over a driving straight-four kick accented with a skittering percussion loop and patiently surging bass. At first, Milyoo's approach to the vocal is subdued while the beat stomps, but eventually the track slips into trickier vocal science, with male as well as female voices thrown in, and all of it feels surprisingly natural even though if you tried singing along you'd sound like a weirdo.
"Takedown" breaks up the beats into something more obviously dubsteppy, with cascading pads, dabbed on like watercolors, crossing the rhythm like slow-motion Chic strings, before moving the spotlight onto foggy, gorgeous percussion overlays. It's neo-chillout along similar lines to Lone's "Dolphin," though they don't sound much like one another. "Box of Tapes" is a head-nod in the general direction of LA-style timbre-warp and stutter-step, smoother than a lot of what's associated with Low End Theory, but inviting anyway. "Phonix" operates here as a coda, and a good one: light stepper's beat, relaxed, confident keyboard twinkle. It keeps its feet on the ground and keeps reaching for the stars.
Tracklist A1 Kazaduon
A2 Takedown
B1 Box Of Tapes
B2 Phonix