Taster Tuesday: DJ P.O.L. Style

Taster Tuesday this week brings us none other than the main main behind Tokyo’s emergin club music scene… DJ P.O.L. Style. Dj P.O.L.Style grew up in Glasgow, and at the age of 13 started skipping school to practice mixing rave and happy hardcore at home. In 2003, along with the members of Dress 2 Sweat, Wireblock, Stuff Records and a couple of other friends, formed the world famous event ‘Numbers’ and invited guests such as DJ Funk, Diplo, A-Trak, Modeselektor, Ghostface Killah, Kid Sister, Squarepusher and Autechre. P.O.L.Style currently plays around the Tokyo DJ circuit and releases music on both Tittsworth & Ayres’ ‘T&A Records’ and his hometown ‘Dress 2 Sweat’ label. He also runs the ‘Numbers’ event in Tokyo and recently started a new event called ‘Tonight’ with Vice magazine and Turntable Lab Japan.

We’ve got a ton a great beats from P.O.L. for you below. First up is his recent rework of Act a Fool of the Crunk Step E.P. which takes a fresh path to - yup - clubbed up crunk. You can cop that whole thing for free on the excellent Club Base and Wine blog. Then you’ve got one of my personal favorites that we always play out, the super hype B-more styled Get Yo Handz Up. And finally, its a full 40 minute mixtape features tracks by a who’s who of nu-club kids like Kazey & Bulldogg, Rico TUBBS, Maddjazz and more.

And, of course, P.O.L. Style will kicking it at our Crooked Disco party this Saturday at Public Assembly in his NYC debut. All the detail on that here.