Taster Tuesday: Andrea Lai

Roma’s Andrea Lai is sort of my ideal DJ these days… the one’s with an amazing ability to bounce from genre to genre and still keep a unique sound. As a major player in Italy’s breaks scene for over a decade, Lai is the founder of Mantra Records and the Agatha club night. He also hosts a weekly show, Mondays, on iBreaks Radio. Recently, Lai has been working on production’s alongside blog-favorites The Crookers, and experimenting with a mixture of breakbeat, fidget, and the ubiquitous Dubstep. His new remix of Iltone’s Crush drops later this month and it’s a hard hitting, wobbly, sparse breakbeat monster…

Dropping March 23rd on Dusted Breaks Records.

We’ve also got his latest vinyl-only release, Mierda, thanks to a free download from his myspace page. This one’s got much more of a rolling base stomp and some classic old school whistle and piano samples (sweet!). We’ve converted to MP3 for ya but you can grab the original WAV for a limited time here.