Kasey Taylor is one of the most influential people in Australian dance music. He is certainly one of the most accomplished and now one of the most recognised on the global dance stage. Indeed, you might expect a few results if you started DJing at the age of 13 as Kasey Taylor did, but the truth is that experience and practice will only get you so far and that at some stage it takes raw talent to turn the heads of the dance world.
As a DJ, there is very little that Kasey Taylor has not done. In the years gone past he has played almost every big gig in Melbourne and held residencies at every club of note. In particular, Kasey played an integral role in creating the magic that was the Mansion. A club that has gone down in the annals of dance history as one of the best to ever sit on the planet with just about every international DJ you could name at the time, playing guesting roles there. He has also played at all the major festivals in Australia like Two Tribes, Summadayze, Renaissance and Global Underground just to name a few, and supported the biggest DJs in the world on a regular basis. Kasey these days, now resides in Portugal and can be found playing all across the globe, from Europe to Australia, South America to Asia, there is not many places where Kasey Taylor hasnt been. In fact, Kasey Taylor can be said to be one of Australia’s best dance exports.
What is it about Kaseys music that has won him the respect of the dance community? If you really want to know, plant your feet on the dance floor for the full duration of a Taylor set. You can talk about programming as Kasey effortlessly and subtlety changes gears from all genres of music, sucking you into his sound scape to a point where you look up all of a sudden and realise youve been lost in music for hours – You can talk about his astounding mixing which is so precise that you probably wont even know whether a track is coming or going -You can talk about the fact that Kasey will be playing records weeks before anyone, You can talk about the fact that Kasey doesnt compromise his sound and still remains accessible.
Burn2Shine says...
Huge. Punters here need to stop drooling over international acts just because they're "international"... open your eyes, there is SO much aussie tallent out there. In other news, great mix haha.
