Dabrye

Detroit's dj Tadd "Dabrye" Mullinix debuted with the album of glitch-hop Winking Makes a Face (2000) and the EP Panes (2002), but, having adopted the moniker Dabrye, emerged with the instrumental hip-hop of the mini-album One/Three (2001) that incorporates funk and jazz. The noir theme of The Lish relies on circular downtempo saxophone patterns. We've Got Commodity blends wavering ambient electronica, distorted industrial metronomy and boom-bap beats. If With A Professional borders on easy-listening muzak, the thin melodic beats of Truffle No Shuffle sculpt an atmosphere that is both futuristic and zombie-like. The catchy syncopated beat of Hyped-Up Plus Tax and the almost comic beat of Smoking The Edge exit the depression area,

Instrmntl (2002) contains leftovers from One/Three and more recent compositions in the same style.

Then came the EP Payback (2003) and the single Game Over (2004), his signature song.

Meanwhile, he also launched the alter-ego James Cotton with the single Mind Your Manners (2001), the EP Buck (2003), the album The Dancing Box (2004), the peak of this psychedelic hip-hop (with a nine-minute version of Buck), and the inferior Like No One (2008).

Dabrye's Two/Three (2006) collects collaborations with rappers such as MF Doom, Beans, Wildchild, and J-Dilla (one of his last). The idea was reprised, 12 years later, on the the 19-song Three/Three (2018), another set of collaborations with rappers.

Super-Cassette (2024) returned to instrumental hip-hop.