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12+ albums
ambientelectronicUSApopexperiemental
about
It takes time to find your voice as a musician, and sometimes when you do find it, that voice isn’t even recognizable. Such is the case for prolific New Jersey-based producer Dan Casey. After years of playing in bands in Philadelphia, PA, Casey began experimenting with electronic music under the moniker Yalls following a move to Berkeley, CA in 2010. Over the course of five years and eight records, Yalls explored many styles but rarely stayed in one. It largely became a project of impulse and experimentation that, despite its lack of cohesion, built Casey’s audience through a regular stream of releases and consistent praise from influential music press such as The Fader, Stereogum, and many more. During that same period, Casey began side projects with names like Daniel Sex Jr and Steezy Ray Vibes, he recorded over two dozen tracks with Bay Area rapper Squadda B (of Main Attrakionz), and built a reputation as a remixer with interpretations of artists like Majical Cloudz, The Xx, and Rhye. Finally, in 2013, he released music under his given name, as if to remind himself who was at the heart of this incredible creative streak. It takes time to find yourself, and sometimes it takes an identity crisis to bring clarity. To know what you truly want to say, you can’t say everything. To know who you truly are, you can’t be everything. Dan Casey had spent half a decade trying to say everything and be everything at the same time. “I feel like being destroyed,” sings Casey in a pitch
