Taahliah (live)

Hailing from Glasgow, TAAHLIAH came to music production quickly after starting to DJ. Driven by her dissatisfaction with the music she was hearing at parties, she started creating her own edits; layering warped vocals atop hard dance tracks and morphing mainstream pop tunes into experimental club-ready anthems.

Her original productions finally took centre-stage with the release of her mini-album Angelica in the summer of 2021 via London label untitled (recs) which went on to win Best Independent EP/Mixtape at the AIM Awards. In 2022, TAAHLIAH released a trilogy of singles further establishing her artistic freedom. From the pounding hard dance of Bodies featuring Luca Eck to the anthemic pop song Fall Into Place toplined by vocalist Tsatsamis, via her facetious IDM collaboration with Loraine James Fuck It!.

This year, TAAHLIAH released her much-anticipated debut-album Gramarye via her longterm label partner untitled (recs) following singles ‘Boys,’ ‘2018’ and ‘Cherish’. The LP includes invaluable contributions from Dev Hynes aka Blood Orange, and TAAHLIAH lending her own vocals to her music for the first time. The album is TAAHLIAH’s boldest statement yet – from the sensitive confessional writing, to the sharp dance cuts that embody the unbothered confidence of her wild club sets, this debut bares all sides of its creator.

Crystallising a new dawn in electronic music, TAAHLIAH constantly seems to challenge the idea that fun and experimental are antonyms. Nothing expresses that better than her viral Boiler Room where mainstream EDM & the sharpest edge of contemporary electronic music cohabit on a tracklist that reads like a manifesto for dance music’s future.

Beyond her career as a prominent DJ & producer, TAAHLIAH is a personality to be reckoned with as she proves weekly on her podcast The Dolls Discuss co-hosted with her friend Lourdes or the few times where she has sat in for Mary Anne Hobbes on BBC 6 Music.

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Considérée par Tsugi comme « la comète britannique qui marie hyperpop et culture rave », TAAHLIAH s’impose avec son premier mini-album Angelica, sorti en 2021 via le label londonien untitled (recs), qui lui vaut le prix de la meilleure mixtape indépendante aux AIM Awards. En 2023, elle franchit un cap avec Gramarye, son premier album très attendu, où elle prête sa voix pour la première fois et collabore avec des artistes comme Dev Hynes (Blood Orange).

Au-delà de ses talents de productrice et DJ, TAAHLIAH brille également avec son podcast The Dolls Discuss, co-animé avec Lourdes, ainsi que par ses interventions remarquées sur BBC 6 Music.

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TAAHLIAH kwam al snel bij muziekproductie terecht nadat ze was begonnen met dj-en. Gedreven door haar ontevredenheid over de muziek die ze op feestjes hoorde, begon ze haar eigen bewerkingen te maken. Het waren echter haar originele producties die uiteindelijk centraal kwamen te staan met de release van haar mini-album ‘Angelica’ in de zomer van 2021. Een jaar later volgde een trilogie van singles waarmee ze haar artistieke vrijheid verder vestigde. Van de beukende harde dance van ‘Bodies’ met Luca Eck tot het anthemische popnummer ‘Fall Into Place’ met zanger Tsatsamis, via haar grappige IDM-samenwerking met Loraine James, ‘Fuck It!’.

In 2024 verscheen haar langverwachte debuutalbum ‘Gramarye’, met bijdragen van onschatbare waarde van Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange. Daarnaast zingt ze voor het eerst zelf op haar muziek. Het is TAAHLIAH’s meest gedurfde statement tot nu toe – van de gevoelige confessionele teksten tot de scherpe dance nummers die het ongekunstelde vertrouwen van haar wilde clubsets belichamen..