U+N Booking presents

Body Meat

Pedazo De Carne Con Ojo

From Pitchfork:
The principles of rhythm are integral to Taylor’s work as Body Meat. In April, he released his latest and best full-length, Truck Music, a collection of raucous tracks combining Nigerian vocal samples, video-game plinks, deep grunts, high-pitched chirps, and all manner of drums, spliced together into unpredictable patterns and time signatures that may sound off-kilter to Western listeners. “People call them weird rhythms,” he tells me with an incredulous look on his face. “But in other cultures these rhythms are normal. If you listen to Middle Eastern music, they think of rhythm in a completely different way. It’s not weird. They just got more groove.”

Taylor sings, too. His Auto-Tuned voice flips between stuttering trap cadences and croons that recall early James Blake. But the British producer never comes up when Taylor shares his influences. He focuses on a wide survey of music from the African diaspora: footwork auteur Jlin, Ugandan electronic label Nyege Nyege Tapes, Portuguese dance label Príncipe, Chicago drill rappers Sicko Mobb, Ethiopian pop diva Aster Aweke, and a lesser-known album by Earth, Wind & Fire, 1993’s Millennium.