I’ve been on the Milyoo bandwagon for a while now and I’m not alone. His debute 12″ for Opit last year made serious waves (including a pot in Boomkats Top 100 singles of the year) and his music won praise from Mary Anne Hobbs who featured a guest mix from him on her BBC Radio 1 show, Gilles Petterson was supporting and Sinden from Kiss FM was also singing his praises. Not a bad start to things for the man from Kentucky.

It’s largely looking like Milyoo is going to be the name on peoples lips this year (when you are droppping the name into those chats about wicked new songs you have heard recently remember to keep the pronounciation strictly French) and with just cause. Milyoo fuses deep House vibes with rich synth textures, finely tuned lyrical samplings and lush bass work. But that’s really just a framework for a style that takes in elements of hip-hop, Dubstep and manages to keep one foot in Detroit while another on the future.

Kazaduon is stark in places and beautiful in others, sometimes combining both in one brief moment of complex sonic interplay. The title tracks has a celebratory vibe, cut vocals samples on a driving housing beat, rich sub bass swirling in the bottom of the track and airy synths unfolding. “Takedown” is all kinds of sad, rich and airy, a track built of the space between sounds. It’s rich and emotive with a disjointed and rambling beat that adds to the odd sense of longing that permeates the track.

“Box of Tapes” keeps the stripped back and almost forlorn vibe alive as synths literally bubble and squeak across the track. Once again the emotional tone of the track relies heavily on vocal samplings and they are used in a refreshing manner…in a scene currently using pitched vocals to drive hooks and move feet the gain a more substantial form of credibility here as they become an emotional anchor in the turbulent mood established by the bass work. 12″ closer “Phonix” is a mish mash of the established vibes, one moment sad, the next happy, moving gently from mood to mood with a style and ease that is pretty much the strongest point of Milyoo’s work. Even on his more dancefloor orientated tracks the emotional level rarely drops in his work and the 4 tracks on this 12″ seem hand picked to delivery home listening introspection while enticing you to find a place in that next mix for them.

Expect a lot more from Milyoo before the calendar ticks over to 2012.