If you have been a regular on the Melbourne music circuit over the last few years, chances are you have been motivated to move and groove by the musically creative and talented Tarek Smallman at one time or another, whether it was while he was drumming for bands such as Something For Kate and bZARK, on stage as one half of electric house duo Bionikworld or even behind the decks on his own, where he is more famously known as T-Rek. With his departure from Bionikworld earlier this year, it was only a matter of time before a debut album was in the works and with the recent release of “Into The Desert Blue”, it is no surprise to hear the culmination of T-Rek’s diverse musical influences and abilities being described as though “The Kills, Queens of the Stone Age, and the Beach Boys joined forces to make a disco album, with Chicken Lips and DJ Shadow at the production helm, Tom Waites on percussion and Dave Grohl on drums.” |
