“Crunk suburban kids with humble swag who are extra nice with the production.” – a recent description by the author of the article’s subjects.
A generation of kids drove around the suburbs as teenagers in hand me down whips getting lifted and drinking heavily while listening to Three Six Mafia and other hop hip hop of that day, and obscure house music. It’s an undeniable fact. Well, those kids have heroes now in the production booth, 2/3 of the playing this Saturday night at U Street Music Hall for the Nouveau Riche monthly with Gavin Holland, Columbia, MD’s own Starks and Nacey. The rise of the duo over the past two years has been an incremental climb in lock step with the development of Washington, DC as an underground music hub. Their 2009 debut EP only scratched the surface leading into 2010’s well received TRO on T & A Records. It showed their love of grimy Southern hip hop, as it really isn’t a great Nacey production if there isn’t a sample somewhere of UGK, The Clipse or Outkast. As well, Steve Starks’ twin loves of the aggressive edge of club music and the deepest and funkiest of house scratched the surface. Nacey made a poppy banger out of flipping the breakdown of The Emotions’ “Lose Your Love,” but that’s clearly not the direction they’re headed in. For a better idea, do take the time to check out their 30 minute workout from last Friday’s Faders East Village Radio show “The Let Out” where the crew shows off exactly where they’re headed over the next few months. Plus Steve drops some EXCLUSIVE STEVE STARKS GIT EM EP ON T & A RECORDS news, as we hear from the duo that is quickly ascending to the top of the rising new crop of young producers and DJs internationally.
It isn’t a far stretch to name Starks and Nacey, Dillon Francis, Munchi and Zombies for Money as being next in line on the underground. Fortunately for us, all of these names have already started working together, and the creations are superb, and better for us, forthcoming.
Starks and Nacey productions evoke a particular mood. It’s like taking something very much out of the familiar and expected, say, the floating and intensely soulful sensation of an elevated mind state, the aggressive wanderings of tribal house or the euphoria of a particularly tight break beat in the club, and hearing it ever so slightly altered. Not so aggressively that it sounds like an intentional or ironic diversion, but just a quality interpretation, mirroring the work of those like Green Velvet, KW Griff, Blaqstarr and DJ Booman that the duo idolize in many ways. Always keep an eye and an ear out for Starks and Nacey, as this truly is only the beginning.
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