“With nods to kuduro, tarraxo, dancehall, EDM and modern Latin club sounds like changa and raptor house, Bubbling Forever is an essential window into global club music sounds in 2024” (The Quietus)

DJ RASHAD
The influence of DJ Rashad, the footwork pioneer from Chicago, remains inimitable. Vice: “Rashad will undoubtedly be remembered as one of contemporary dance music's most innovative stylists and most irreplaceable presences”. DJ Rashad, together with DJ Spinn, founded the Teklife Crew (with DJ Taye, who’s visited AB before) and was one of the first footwork producers to gain popularity outside Chicago, the genre’s birthplace. 
His debut Double Cup appeared on Kode9’s visionary label Hyperdub (also known for Burial, Loraine James), and celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2023. Pitchfork dubbed it “Rashad’s magnum opus, an album that redefined footwork to the masses as something limitless, nuanced, unprecedentedly smooth”. (DJ) Rashad Harden’s use of samples has been compared to the ‘sampledelia’ of hip-hop producer J Dilla, specifically his masterpiece Donuts. “Both records possess the similar thrill of hearing a master of an existent genre taking their sound to new, exciting heights”. DJ Rashad died of a drug overdose in 2014, two days after his final public appearance. Ironically, Double Cup described a way to manufacture the drug lean (a cough syrup-based substance also known as purple drank).
If you want to learn more about the work of DJ Rashad and his Teklife crew, you can read more here.

TOVERBERG PRESENTS DJ RASHAD TRIBUTE
w/ DE SCHUURMAN (NYEGE NYEGE TAPES) (NL)

Guillermo Schuurman (NL) from The Hague followed in the footsteps of his Dutch mentor DJ Chippie, the one and only pioneer of Dutch Urban Electric Sound. Schuurman began to blend bubbling rhythms, hip-hop samples, trance synths and electro wobbles. 

He put his own spin on bubbling using trap percussion, dubstep bass and dancehall kicks, without straying too far from the essence of bubbling. Fun fact: Bubbling first appeared in the Netherlands in 1988 when DJ Moortje accidentally spun a dancehall record at 45 instead of 33 rpm. The explosive audience reaction instantly brought a new sound to life. 

The Schuurman has released two albums on the iconic Nyege Nyege Tapes: Bubbling Inside (2021) and more recently Bubbling Forever, and album where Caribbean influences go hand in hand with flute, woodblocks, rap samples and ATL trap.