DJ Thomas D – Eddie

Thomas Dilworth is an upstate NY DJ and friend who asked me to help add some ‘loud’ to his track ‘Eddie’. After some talk we decided to collaborate on the track and a few weeks later I finally put the screws to my laptop and pushed this out.

Tom’s been DJing for easily as long as I’ve known him and I recall sitting at this busted up bar called the The Dirty Monkey listening to some of his first material in between drinks of Utica Club and cigarettes somewhere around 1999-2000. I recall one track in particular that I believe he wrote on just a Boss Dr-202 (The Dr by the way stands for Dr., as in Dr. Groove.  Completely absurd name for any piece of gear) anyway… and I instantly appreciated that he came in on an upbeat with his drums. It’s the little things. Where most of the rhythmic work that I do never strays to far from your typical 4/4 and 16th note hi hats coming in on the one, Tom liberally uses more syncopation, triplets, and funk.

A gritty and rough beat is the backbone of this sample laden track peppered with sparse melody and riddled with filtered dubby delay. Excessive tweaking at the end makes for some nice woofer-wrecking and ear-bleeding sound effects that contrast the smooth panned delays throughout this short-but-sweet indulgence. As the track suggests, “lick it and smoke it”.

From his Facebook page: Thomas has been DJing for 9 years holding down the longest residency in Utica New York’s upscale Space 26 lounge. His sets include everything from house music to Afrobeat to underground disco and everything in between. His philosophy on the decks is that no music is off limits and to limit one’s self to a particular genre robs you of the possibilities.

The Original

With my additions