We enjoy the nostalgic aspect and rhythm to Bay Area music. Not as a comfort so to say, more like an understanding and a familiarity with the music. When we make dance tracks, that influence is what we gravitate towards. Our first track this year was a Bay Area influenced track. Those early parties were the fondest memories of me playing. WA: My first party that I ever DJ’d was back in high school and it didn’t start getting crackin’ until I played the Bay Area slaps. The music I listened to in high school has made a huge impact on my life.

We try to use it as an influence in some way and incorporate it with our own sounds. WA: “Tastebreakers” fits more with what we’re trying to go for and that’s how we got to it.ĭC: How has the Bay Area influenced your original productions?ĪK: I’d say over the course of the past year, we usually come back to hyphy music. I knew that was the one.Īlex Kato: There was also “Tasteshakers”, “Breaktasters”, and a bunch of other horrible names before we settled with “Tastebreakers”. We were shooting out names in a text thread and Kato shot out “Tastebreakers”. However, after looking at all the trademarks on the name “Tastemaker”, we decided to choose a name that’d be easier to claim and brand. Then we flipped the A’s over, and then a momentary switch to the name “Chromatic Beats”. We rode that for a little bit then called ourselves “Tvstemvkers”. Two years later, we reconvened and started DJ’ing together at first as “AKWA” which was our initials combined. It was a short-lived run as we did our own thing soon after college happened. Waseel Amoura: We started DJ’ing together my freshman year of college at random house parties and called ourselves “Corrupted Youth”. Degenerates Club: What’s the history on the name “Tastebreakers”?

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