Draft (musician)

Liam Tallon
Also known as	Draft Tallon
Born	1986 (age 29–30)
Origin	Leytonstone United Kingdom
Genres	Electronica Electro house Avant-garde
Years active	2009 - Present
Associated acts	Jon Gooch Gemini Wickaman Emalkay
Website	www.draft.uk.com

Liam Tallon (born 1986),^[1] more commonly known by his stage name Draft, is an Electronic music producer, musician and DJ.^[2]

Biography

Tallon adopted the moniker Draft after pursuing a less chaotic music style than the one he had been endlessly pushing whilst working at Lifted Music and Breed 12 Inches as Label Manager.^[3] He has said in a rare interview that the name stemmed from the "amount of unfinished music he had started".^[4]

After the freely distributed EP 2011 release, "In The Dead Of Night",^[5] Tallon became known to ‘BBC Introducing’, where his breakthrough track ‘More Than Her’ featured in their rotation. At the time, Liam was working at Lifted Music alongside Spor and Chris Renegade, and managing Breed 12 Inches,^[6] but the Draft project began to move in popularity rapidly, forcing him to move away from Drum and Bass and focus full-time on the project.

On 24 February 2012, Draft met with the Drum and Bass label Metalheadz, where he was approached to feature on the Metalheadz takeover of Boiler Room TV, alongside music acts such as Goldie.^[7] He would later provide Metalheadz with an exclusive "Metalheadz Podcast Mix", which would eventually go on to be one of their highest listened to podcast releases in history.^[8]

As of September 2012, Tallon was signed up by the remix department at ThreeSixZero Group,^[9] known for their exclusive line up of artists, including Deadmau5, Calvin Harris and previously colleague and good friend, Feed Me.

On 15 September 2012, Draft released an 8 track IDM EP, "TheEndOfTheBeginning",^[10] which would contain 8 tracks of original material. Late 2012, he was approached to remix the Two Fingers track 'Not Perfect'^[11]

In September 2013, Tallon signed exclusively with AEI Media^[12] and over the course of 2014 began releasing through Luke Hood's 'Pilot Records'.^[13] His debut EP, The 'Phryday EP', received great reception, amassing hundreds of thousands of views for the music video,^[14] as well as extensive radio play.^[15] His latest EP, 'Makeshift Constellations',^[16] shows his diversity as an artist, and he has confirmed that he will begin a residency/US show schedule in 2014^[17]

Discography

Draft

Releases

Year	Title	Type	Catalogue number
2011	In The Dead of Night^[18]	EP	DRFT001
2012	Mass Grey	Single	DRFT002
2012	Shelling	Single	DRFT003
2012	TheBeginningOfTheEnd EP	EP	DRFT004
2014	Phryday^[19]	EP	PILOT012
2014	Makeshift Constellations^[20]	EP	PILOT017

Guest appearances

Year	Title	Appears on	Album Artist	Record Label
2010	"Our Distant Memories, Our Idle Dreams (Draft Remix)"	Our Distant Memories, Our Idle Dreams - EP.	A Dancing Beggar	A Dancing Beggar Music

Production credits

Year	Track Title	Movie Title	Album	Catalogue number
2012	"Shelling"	Moment of Clarity	Moment of Clarity OST

Remixes

Year	Title	Original artist	Appears on	Catalogue number
2011	Scale It Back (Draft Remix)^[21]	DJ Shadow	Digital Release
2011	The Morning (Draft Remix)^[22]	The Weeknd	Single	Remix
2012	This Must Be The Start (Draft Remix)	A Dancing Beggar	Remix	Free Release
2012	Plastic People (Draft Remix)	Four Tet	Remix	Free Release
2013	Not Perfect (Draft Remix)	Two Fingers	Official Remix	Free Release
2013	Right Now (Draft Remix)^[23]	[J Majik] & [Wickaman]	Official Remix	Infrared
2013	One More Chance (Draft Remix)^[24]	T-Phonic & Modula	Official Remix	Titan Records
2013	Tell Me (Draft Remix)^[25]	Emalkay	Official Remix	Bring It Down Records

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