Tayla

Russell Taylor, known professionally as Tayla, is a London-based DJ and producer working across drum and bass, jungle and related breakbeat styles (also associated with liquid funk and, in broader cataloguing, breakcore). He released material on LTJ Bukem’s Good Looking Records beginning in the early 1990s, appears on Good Looking releases including the Producer 04 compilation, and is credited on tracks such as “Bang the Drums” with LTJ Bukem. Tayla has been active in the scene since the 1990s.

Public records of Tayla’s career start with his association to Good Looking in the early 1990s. That run of releases and compilation appearances is the primary documented entry point into the scene: Good Looking tracks and the Producer 04 appearance are the concrete, verifiable milestones linking him to the era and to Bukem’s imprint.

On record Tayla sits on the melodic, atmospheric side of drum and bass. His credited work on Good Looking material highlights a focus on harmonic elements and space—sustained pads, chordal textures and clear melodic motifs layered over edited breakbeats. These productions favour clarity in the mid and top ranges, with production moves that prioritise atmosphere and alignment with Bukem’s smoother aesthetic rather than maximalist, distorted bassweight.

Production characteristics you can point to in Tayla’s published output include careful break editing and arrangement that foregrounds melodic material, use of sustained ambient layers to create a wide stereo field, and concise track structures compatible with compilation placement (as on Producer 04). Those traits align his output with liquid/atmospheric DnB more than raw, amen-heavy jungle — a distinction visible on the Good Looking releases that document his work.

Career highlights that are publicly verifiable are his Good Looking Records appearances in the early 1990s, his listing on the Producer 04 compilation, and the credited collaboration “Bang the Drums” with LTJ Bukem. Beyond those catalogued credits, detailed public information about later releases, other labels or ongoing activity is limited; the Good Looking association and the Bukem credit remain the clearest documented links in Tayla’s recorded career.

Where concrete influence or connection is recorded, it is LTJ Bukem and the Good Looking roster: Tayla’s placements on that label and his named credit with Bukem are the primary, verifiable professional connections in available sources.