Rio Tashan Drops His First Single of 2026
- Valentina Reynolds
- 11 hours ago
- 2 min read
If you know UK club music, you know the name Randall. Drum and bass, jungle, the kind of music that built the foundations of what a British dancefloor could be. Rio Tashan grew up inside that world. He is Randall's son, and before you assume that comes with pressure, listen to "Expressions" and you will hear someone who has turned that inheritance into something entirely his own.
The single is out now, and it features Kosmo Kint, a New York-born, Berlin-based vocalist and writer who you might recognise as the voice behind Prospa's "Love Songs," a record that picked up a BBC Radio 1 Hottest Record approval and made its way into the Beatport Top 100. Kint brings a soulful, considered weight to the production, and what they have made together pulls from Chicago house swing, polyrhythmic percussion, and jungle-core rave alarms.
Not as a stylistic exercise, but as a genuine melting pot of everything both artists believe music should feel like.
That philosophy is also the foundation of Expressions, the club brand Tashan launched earlier this year. The idea came from a frustration that will feel familiar to anyone who has spent real time on the UK dancefloor. Artists get put in lanes. Brands get put in lanes. Crowds show up for one sound and go home without ever being introduced to anything new. Tashan wanted to build something that pushed against all of that, a platform where a DJ can take a room somewhere unexpected and the crowd trusts the journey enough to follow.
He chose to kick the tour off at fabric, the East London club where his late father first took him. Expressions is partly a creative statement, but it is also an act of grief and love, a way of continuing lessons Randall taught without ever spelling them out. About individualism. About not conforming. About the ability to move between worlds without losing yourself in any of them.
The nine-date UK and Ireland run that opened at fabric in February took Expressions to Glasgow, Bristol, Nottingham, Edinburgh, Norwich, and beyond. Tashan has been clear that the long-term goal is for Expressions to exist beyond him. The brand is the thing. The artist serves it, not the other way around.
His 2025 debut EP "Out The Blocks" came out via Kerri Chandler's Kaoz Theory imprint, one of the most respected homes in house music. More is on the way via Seth Troxler's Slacker 85 label, with Hideout Festival, Sankeys, and Appetite On The Farm already confirmed for the year ahead.
Two of electronic music's most respected figures have put their weight behind what Rio Tashan is building. Keep your eyes on what comes next.