Tar Media Productions

Tar Media Productions was founded by the Caribbean-by-way-of-New-York Adrian Brathwaite. Brathwaite, aka Tarbaby, started it out of his boredom and dissatisfaction with his career as a successful stockbroker. "I worked on Bay St. [Toronto's equivalent of Wall St.] selling stocks. My first love was music, and I was totally disgusted the whole time I was doing it. I just wanted to create a vehicle for Canadian artists." Along for the ride on this groove machine are fellow monosyllabic headnoddas PRiNE and Plane, among others.

The Blue Noise Remix Project
Jazz guitar noodling, hip hop bass-bumpin' Adrian Quesada tips his sombrero to both Herb Alpert and DJ Premier. Think mushroom quesadilla jazz, with enough funk to thump the trunk.

The Blue Noise Remix Project Vol. 1 - 2000


Modulor
Modulor produces abstract drum and bass experiments and abstractions for renegade Toronto based label Tar Media. His tight production fuses the ambient width of Mixmaster Morris with the loose junglism of Amon Tobin. A truly refreshing expression.

Vent 0004: A Drum & Bass Document


Plane
Plane, the Tar Media Channel's Louisiana chef, demonstrates a new recipe for turntable hot sauce. Wear a bib. A featured track from the Tar Media compilation Tar Baby presents vENT 0004: a drum and bass document.

Vent 0004: A Drum & Bass Document


PRiNE
PRiNE takes vintage found sounds on a journey to faraway lands of downtempo and dope styles. "MCs And Me" is from the Tar Media compilation Tar Baby presents vENT: a Drum and Bass Document.

Desh Pardesh
Vent 0004: A Drum & Bass Document


Tar Baby
Foreign correspondent and cross-culture don Tarbaby poses the funkiest rhetorical question to listeners since Run-DMC asked: "Is It Live?"

One Day I'll Marry a Human - 2000