DJ Rashad

Among the DJs on the forefront from the fast and furious design of home music referred to as footwork, DJ Rashad (Rashad Harden) was created in Chicago and raised in the city’s suburb of Calumet Town. A young enthusiast of Chicago’s banging make of home music referred to as ghettohouse, Rashad had been producing mixtapes when he fulfilled the like-minded DJ Spinn in senior high school. Both would start DJ’ing around city in 1996, and in 1998 the duo will be featured on the split 12″ over the Dance Mania label, although Spinn’s aspect was mislabeled as made by DJ Thadz. Spinn and Rashad continued to be a group as ghettohouse advanced into juke, which progressed into footwork, and both shaped the Ghettoteknitianz collective in 2004. Many Ghettoteknitianz-affiliated makers would land paths on earth Mu label’s 2010 compilation of footwork paths, Bangs & Functions, Vol. 1. The label also released Rashad’s Itz Not really Rite EP this year 2010, aswell as the Ghettoteknitianz 12″ EP the next yr. The collective progressed into Teklife around 2011 and extended internationally, encompassing footwork makers from significantly beyond the Chicago picture. In 2012 Rashad released the compilation Teklife, Vol 1: Welcome towards the Chi, along with his record Increase Glass arriving via Hyperdub a calendar year afterwards (along with EPs Rollin’ and I Don’t Provide a Fuck). Increase Glass was a watershed minute for footwork, attaining widespread vital acclaim and marking the genre’s additional creative development since it grew to encompass components of jungle and acidity techno. Tragically, Rashad was discovered dead within an house on Chicago’s South Aspect in Apr 2014; he was 34 years of age. Hyperdub released Following Lifestyle, a Teklife compilation with all revenue likely to a finance for DJ Rashad’s kid Chad Harden, in November of 2014, accompanied by Rashad’s 6613 EP in June of 2015.