Taha Beats is a producer who builds melodic, guitar-inflected alt-pop and emo-adjacent tracks, credited on streaming platforms alongside a related alias, Kurffew, under which he also releases his own vocal-led songs. His production catalog runs from 2020s YouTube type-beat uploads through a placement with UK breakout artist Yxngxr1 to co-production credits on two songs from Christian Gates's 2024 debut album No Strings Attached.
Streaming metadata renders the producer's name in slightly different ways across the two songs he is credited on. Shazam's listing for “FOOD POISONING” credits “Kurffew (Taha Beats)” alongside a second name, “Taha AU Roomate,” and Elation. YouTube's and Shazam's credits for “BABYDOLL” list “Taha Beats” directly alongside Elation. The parenthetical linking Kurffew to Taha Beats matches other sourcing: a 2023 upload of the song “kurffew – lazy” is captioned “prod. taha & aidan farley” and links to the Instagram handle @tahabeatss, and “kurffew – i dont wna cry (haste)” is captioned “Produced by Taha,” with Shazam listing the producer simply as “TAHA.”
The most specific real-name lead points to a producer using the name Hafiz Taha. A LinkedIn profile under that name, headlined “Guitar Shredder Drum Slayer / music producer lol” and based in the San Francisco Bay Area, lists an experience entry for “taha beats” starting in May 2020, describing a “180 pivot” away from an economics and finance track into music full time. The same profile lists a B.S. in Economics and Business Administration, with a finance concentration, from Northeastern University (2016–2019), prior schooling at Jakarta Intercultural School (2012–2015), and internships at State Street Global Advisors and Columbia Threadneedle Investments. Separately, video credits from a Jakarta-based talk show and a microphone demo video around 2021–2022 list “Hafiz Taha” for music, tied to Big Bear Recording Studio on Jalan Ampera Raya in South Jakarta, and linking to the same @tahabeatss Instagram handle. Together, the picture is of a producer whose life has run through Jakarta, the Bay Area, and eventually Los Angeles, where he was based by the time of his Yxngxr1 and Christian Gates credits.
Taha Beats' earliest public trace is a 2020 YouTube type-beat upload (“[FREE] Dominic Fike x Arctic Monkeys Type Beat”) listing a contact email and the @tahabeatss Instagram handle, the standard beat-store model many independent producers use to build a client base through YouTube search traffic. By 2022 that outreach had converted into a real placement: “mr. sunshine,” a track by Cardiff-born artist Yxngxr1 (known for his 2019 viral breakout “Tyler”), billed “(prod. taha beats)” in its video description. Apple Music's credits for Yxngxr1's “NICE GUY” (2022), a collaboration with Morgan Reese, also list “Taha” as producer. A 2022 interview with Yxngxr1 for the Bringin' It Backwards podcast states that for his project Teenage Motel, the artist worked exclusively with Birmingham-based producer Milodrama Beats and “Taha Beats out of L.A.” That interview is the first outside confirmation that Taha Beats was operating out of Los Angeles by that point, the same city where Christian Gates was based when the two later connected on record.
Starting around January 2023, the name Kurffew began appearing not just as a producer credit but as a standalone artist project, releasing melodic, emo-adjacent, guitar-forward singles including “I Don't Wanna Cry,” “Lazy,” and “Unwind.” Viberate's artist profile describes Kurffew as “a gifted musician from Los Angeles, California” working in indie rock, citing “powerful vocals and complex guitar playing.” Subsequent Kurffew releases through 2023–2025 include “Run,” “Signs,” “Let Her Go,” “Concussion,” “Fine,” “Since You Left,” “I See Pain,” “Big Boat Theory,” and the most recent single traced in this project, “gf,” released July 24, 2025. A number of these tracks circulate in multiple versions, original, sped-up “(haste)” edits, and slowed/reverb versions, a distribution pattern common to the TikTok-era remix economy rather than a deliberate sequencing choice. The Kurffew Instagram account, a small, DIY-style page with roughly a dozen visible posts, documents early independent live dates, including a stop at Chicago's Subterranean club, alongside song-drop announcements. On Last.fm, Kurffew's listed “similar artists” include Ekkstacy, Yot Club, Surf Curse, and VACATIONS, placing the project within a lo-fi, emotionally direct strand of bedroom and DIY indie-pop.
Taha Beats' two most widely distributed credits are on Christian Gates's material from the No Strings Attached era. “FOOD POISONING” was released as a standalone single on March 15, 2024, well ahead of the November 1, 2024 album, a common strategy of testing a song before it lands on a full-length release. Its production credit lists Elation, Kurffew (Taha Beats), and a third name, Taha AU Roomate, with writers listed as Christian Gates, Elation, Jared Martineau, Nicholas Michael Lopez, and Taha AU Roomate. The shared first name across the two Taha-associated credits on the same song points to either the same producer credited twice under related aliases, or a close collaborator, potentially a literal roommate, sharing the first name Taha.
“BABYDOLL” appeared on the album itself, produced by Taha Beats and Elation. Christian Gates named it his personal favorite track on No Strings Attached, saying in an interview with Music Scene Media that he liked it “just because of the vibe,” describing an energy that “feels really fresh.” He has separately described “FOOD POISONING” as dealing with the “raw, emotional experiences of dealing with a past relationship,” a song chosen as a single specifically to show a more vulnerable side of the album than the harder-edged “TOXIC.” Christian Gates has confirmed Taha Beats' production credit on “FOOD POISONING” alongside Elation.
Elation is the connective figure across nearly the entire album, described in press coverage of No Strings Attached as Gates's “long-time collaborator,” the two having recorded Gates's first project together back in 2019. Gates has credited Elation with shaping the record's overall cohesive sound, saying that after writing the song “Freak,” the two “started using similar samples and effects across the project.” Taha Beats' contribution sits alongside a wider list of names on the album, including Jason Suwito, Nicholas Michael Lopez, JB ach, Blake Mares, Rob Cohen, Will Mandel, SameSame, and Dutch Melrose, with Elation as the common thread linking most of them. No public account describes an in-person session between Taha Beats and Christian Gates, and no Taha Beats credit appears on Gates's material released after the No Strings Attached album cycle, including the later single “Dangerous State of Mind.”
Across both the Kurffew catalog and the two Christian Gates placements, Taha Beats' output sits at the intersection of emo-tinged alt-pop, guitar-driven bedroom pop, and the melodic, SoundCloud-adjacent “sad boy” strain of trap production. The frequent “(haste)” sped-up edits and slowed/reverb alternate versions across Kurffew's catalog place the project inside the same TikTok-era remix ecosystem that shaped much of 2020s bedroom pop distribution. On the Christian Gates side, both credited songs pair Taha Beats with Elation as co-producer, and press materials for the album describe a deliberate use of shared samples and effects across the tracklist to create a cohesive overall sound, consistent with a structure in which an outside producer supplies an initial beat or idea that an in-house collaborator, in this case Elation, carries through to a final mix.
No performing rights organization registration, publishing administrator, manager, or booking agent has been publicly identified for Taha Beats. The Instagram handle most consistently linked to the producer credit is @tahabeatss, referenced directly in the video description for Yxngxr1's “mr. sunshine” as the “producer social links.” The related, separate Kurffew artist account, @kurffeww, is a small independent page documenting early singles and limited live dates. On the Kurffew side, Aidan Farley is credited as a co-producer on the single “lazy.” Beyond Yxngxr1 and Christian Gates, no other major-artist placements under the Taha Beats credit have been traced.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Begins uploading type-beat content on YouTube under the Instagram handle @tahabeatss; a LinkedIn profile later lists “taha beats” as an ongoing role starting this May |
| 2021–2022 | Credited for music on Jakarta-based video content tied to Big Bear Recording Studio under the name Hafiz Taha |
| 2022 | Produces “mr. sunshine” and “NICE GUY” for UK artist Yxngxr1; described in a Bringin' It Backwards interview as working “out of L.A.” |
| January 2023 | Launches Kurffew as a standalone artist project with early singles including “I Don't Wanna Cry” and “Lazy” |
| March 15, 2024 | “FOOD POISONING,” co-produced with Elation and Taha AU Roomate, released as a single ahead of Christian Gates's debut album |
| November 1, 2024 | “BABYDOLL,” produced with Elation, appears on Christian Gates's debut album No Strings Attached |
| July 24, 2025 | Kurffew releases the single “gf,” the most recent traced release under either name |
Yes. Streaming and video credits consistently pair the two names, with “Kurffew (Taha Beats)” appearing as a single production credit on “FOOD POISONING,” and multiple Kurffew singles crediting production simply to “Taha,” linking back to the same @tahabeatss Instagram handle.
He is the credited co-producer, alongside Elation, on two songs from Christian Gates's 2024 debut album No Strings Attached: the pre-release single “FOOD POISONING” and the album track “BABYDOLL,” which Gates has named as his favorite song on the record.
Public records point to a producer named Hafiz Taha, based across Jakarta, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles, who describes shifting from an economics and finance background into full-time music production starting in 2020.
No further Taha Beats credit appears on Christian Gates's releases after the No Strings Attached cycle, including the later single “Dangerous State of Mind.”
| Track | Artist | Year | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| mr. sunshine | Yxngxr1 | 2022 | Producer |
| NICE GUY | Yxngxr1 & Morgan Reese | 2022 | Producer |
| lazy | kurffew | 2023 | Producer (with Aidan Farley) |
| i dont wna cry (haste) | kurffew | 2023 | Producer |
| FOOD POISONING | Christian Gates | 2024 | Co-producer, co-writer (with Elation and Taha AU Roomate) |
| BABYDOLL | Christian Gates | 2024 | Producer (with Elation) |
| gf | kurffew | 2025 | Artist / producer |
Further reading on the wider ecosystem around these credits includes the entries for Christian Gates, whose 2024 debut album No Strings Attached carries the two Taha Beats co-production credits, and Elation, the producer credited alongside Taha Beats on both songs and described as Gates's longest-running collaborator. Readers interested in the broader alt-pop and emo-adjacent production scene Taha Beats' Kurffew project sits within may also find the Ekkstacy entry relevant.