Tyler Morris went to Robert Moog's own alma mater in the Bronx, a small detail that turned out to matter for someone who'd end up building a career entirely on electronic production — Westend, the name, comes from the side of New York City that shaped him growing up.
He kept a day job at a tech company for two years, producing at night and playing shows on weekends before Westend built enough momentum, around 2018, to become the whole career; "Jumpin'," his 2021 collaboration with fellow New Yorker CID, spent weeks at the top of the tech house charts and got played out by MK, Diplo, John Summit, and Sonny Fodera, and "Aguila," a 2022 team-up with HUGEL and Cumbiafrica, held a top-10 spot for eight straight weeks.
During the 2020 nightlife shutdown, rather than just waiting it out, he mentored more than a hundred other tech house producers one-on-one — a habit that's grown into Kick & Bass, the production Discord he still runs with over 160 members, evidence that his interest in the genre goes beyond his own catalog.