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XXXY

Hav­ing spent his youth in var­i­ous bands Rupert Tay­lor finally decided to hang up his gui­tar and mic and began pro­duc­ing elec­tronic music fuelled by his love at the time of drum and bass and techno. Through the influ­en­tial record shop Pelikan Neck he picked up on the early forms of dub­step and began focus­ing his pro­duc­tions on bass heavy garage influ­enced tracks. This led to his first release as “foren­six (mcr)” on Rev­o­lu­tion music in 2006 with one of his first pro­duc­tions.
After the release of his first record, he took a break to tighten up his pro­duc­tion. He came back in 2009 as xxxy which led to the releases of “Reflec­tions ep” on the influ­en­tial Man­ches­ter label Mind­set and “Sci­ence Fiction/651” on For­mant Record­ings. By late 2009 he had begun to become more and more influ­enced by house music which had begun to take up a much larger sec­tion of his record collection.

2010 saw the release of a split of the very well received 12” on Infra­son­ics. Com­prised of the Bal­ti­more influ­enced “Blue Flash­ing Lights” and the Funky Roller “Know You” which was included in FACT magazine’s tunes of 2010 list.

Later in 2010 he released the crit­i­cally acclaimed garage influ­enced ep “Every Step For­ward” on For­ti­fied Audio.

The Jan­u­ary 2011 release of “You Always Start it/Ordinary Things” on Ten Thou­sand Yen increased xxxy’s bur­geon­ing rep­u­ta­tion with Pitch­fork pick­ing “ordi­nary things” as it’s best new tune of the day “What’s so spe­cial about “Ordi­nary Things” isn’t its parts, though, but how impec­ca­bly they are put together…This rush comes com­plete with a joy­ous “Whoo!” sam­ple to let you know that, yeah, while you’re get­ting the chills, this is still body-moving music.”

2011 will see releases on Orca, Well Rounded, Infra­son­ics & All City together with Remixes for Tri Angle and the Count & Sinden.

As a DJ xxxy has pro­duced well received mixes for FACT, BBQ & URB as well as play­ing dates all over the UK and Europe.

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