Dabrye is an alias of Ann Arbor, Michigan

Michigan

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-based musician Tadd Mullinix (also known as James T. Cotton, SK-1), whose Winking Makes A Face was the first album released by Ann Arbor’s Ghostly International

Ghostly International

Ghostly International is an American independent record label. Chief artists include Matthew Dear, Dabrye , Mobius Band, and Skeletons & The Girl-Faced Boys, all of which are innovative contributors to the world of music....

. Parting with the IDM

Intelligent dance music

Intelligent dance music is a term that describes an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s. The genre is influenced by a wide range of musical styles particularly electronic dance music such as Detroit Techno...

 sound of Winking..., the first Dabrye album was 2001's One/Three, whose take on instrumental hip-hop paralleled the work of artists such as Prefuse 73.

Successive Dabrye projects included 2004's Game Over single, which featured MC work by Jay Dee

J Dilla

James Dewitt Yancey , better known by the stage names J Dilla and Jay Dee, was an American record producer who emerged from the mid-1990s underground hip hop scene in Detroit, Michigan...

 and Phat Kat

Phat Kat

Phat Kat , is a rapper from the east side of Detroit, Michigan. His career began in the mid 90's as part of 1st Down, which consisted of Phat Kat on vocals and Jay Dee on production...

 – the single was a precursor to the second Dabrye full-length Two/Three, which includes other notable underground figures like MF DOOM

MF Doom

Daniel Dumile is a hip hop artist who has taken on several stage names in his career, most notably MF DOOM, where the "MF" stands for metal face, and for tracks he has produced, metal fingers...

, Beans

Beans (rapper)

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, Vast Aire

Vast Aire

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, and Big Tone, and features art by France

France

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's WK Interact. Mullinix’s work as Dabrye has been met with acclaim for its signature rhythmic sensibilities, which fuse the feel of live drumming with stylized electronic programming. Dabrye recently teamed up with then-roommate D’Marc Cantu to form the Techno

Techno

Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...

/Acid house

Acid house

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 group 2 AM/FM. The track Hyped-Up Plus Tax from the One/Three album was used as a jingle

Jingle

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 for the Motorola RAZR V3

Motorola RAZR V3

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commercial.

Albums

• One/Three
  One/Three
  One/Three is the first album released under the name Dabrye by Ann Arbor, Michigan electronic musician Tadd Mullinix.-Track listing:# "The Lish" - # "We've Got Commodity" - # "With A Professional" - # "I'm Missing You" -...
  
  (2001)
• Instrmntl (2002)
• Additional Productions Vol.1 (2005)
• Two/Three
  Two/Three
  Two/Three is Michigan musician Tadd Mullinix's second studio album under the Dabrye name. It was released by the Ghostly International label on June 13, 2006, around five years after its predecessor One/Three....
  
  (2006)
• Two/Three Instrumentals (2006)

Singles and EPs

• Game Over single (2004)
• Payback EP (2003)
• Game Over EP (2004)
• Air single (2006)
• Get Dirty EP (2008)

EPs

• Mind Your Manners (2001)
• Buck! Ep (2003)
• Press Your Body EP (2004)
• Oochie Coo (2006)
• On Time EP (2010)

External links

• http://www.dabrye.com