Late legend DJ Rashad up with DJ Spinn in the early 2000s to form Ghettoteknitianz, later to become Teklife in 2009. Driven by increasingly experimental and distorted style of footwork dancing (and not the other way round), producers began upping the BPMs to form an experimental style distinctive from ghetto house, known as footwork.

Now, Teklife is a collective of more than 25 producers, DJs and dancers with members across Europe, Asia and the USA. Their trademark attachment to offbeat 808s and cracking sneers, along with pitched up vocals and blistering BPMs made them a natural choice for a collab on our Roland DJ-808. Check out Teklife OG DJ Spinn and bright spark DJ Earl perform below in their rework of Teklife classics, both old and new.