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The most original combination in bass-thumping beats and raw unleashed melodies since Diplo, Timbaland and Moby transformed a generation with their music is now being created by a young producer named Zakee, this time doing it for 2009. Club music, which today seems like a rather basic reproduction of dance music with most tracks looping familiar drum-breaks, slathered on with instantly recognizeable samples, but not Zakee’s music. He’s found a secret formula. Countering the been-there-done-that music act, Zakee layers his productions with abstract drum patterns while adding and subtracting various transition elements throughout. It’s nearly impossible to put him in a category when he demonstrates a range so wide.The 27-year-old DJ/Producer and Philly native has always had his work cut out for him, finding the most obscurest of sounds churning them into futuristic yet grimey tunes, keeping the urban integrity of his West Philly roots. Since the tender age of four, music has always been a part of Zakee’s life. His father played the piano and his aunt was a choir director, both influenced him to pursue music academically; first studying Classical and Contempory music theory, then playing the piano and viola at the prestigious Settlement Music School in Philadelphia, before attending Howard University in Washington D.C. College life however could not detract Zakee from sampling all music available, from Gun's & Roses to Enigma along with Wu-Tang Clan, and by the time Senior Year rolled around he soon found himself spending more time making beats than studying for graduation.Timing couldn’t have been more perfect. By the time Zakee made a serious decision about a music career and moved back home, Philly had begun to embrace the new hip hop/electro music scene and he managed carved out a little space for himself. With new musical influences like Seun Kuti, Salamm Remi and ColdPlay, he started spinning Baltimore club, experimental house, kuduro and dub at house parties catching the attention of West Philly school kids who in turn begun battle dancing to his music in their lunchrooms and schoolyards. Being the soundtrack to many urban area kids, his music invoked the fun back into dancing and away from street violence. Zakee’s club tracks soon found their way into the record crates of out-of-town hipster DJs, and sparked a demand for his music.
