Osborne

Based in Ypsilanti, Michigan, midway between Ann Arbor and Detroit, producer and DJ Todd Osborn first drew notice beyond his local area under the Soundmurderer alias. On his own Rewind imprint he and partner SK-1—also known as Tadd Mullinix, Dabrye, and James T. Cotton—issued a series of fiercely charged ragga jungle tracks. That profile reached its height in 2003 when Violent Turd issued the mix Wired for Sound, a set that sprinted through sixty selections in under seventy minutes. The year before, material credited to Todd Osborn and Osborne had begun appearing on Throw as well as on Spectral Sound, an offshoot of Ghostly International, marking his first documented forays into techno and house. During that same stretch he teamed with Brian Gillespie for the Starski & Clutch project, which placed several ghetto-tech singles on Databass. A trickle of further Osborne releases on Spectral continued through 2008 and culminated in a self-titled album whose wide-ranging approach offered distinctive takes on multiple strains of house, techno, and electronic pop. Working again with Mullinix under the TNT name, the pair applied the same blend of reverence and irreverence to acid house that their earlier Soundmurderer & SK-1 work had brought to drum’n’bass. Osborn has additionally issued limited cassette-only recordings under the names Musk and Superstructure.