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Artist:	MOUNT KIMBIE
Title:	Crooks & Lovers
Label:	HOTFLUSH RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	HF 004CD

Adding a percussive and experimental edge to the current class of post-dubstep pioneers, Mount Kimbie, the duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos -- release their highly anticipated debut album Crooks & Lovers on Hotflush. Mount Kimbie's first two EPs -- Maybes and Sketch On Glass -- seemed like explorations of spaces so private that all within earshot were instantly turned into voyeurs. The experience was less like listening to music and more like eavesdropping on the machinations of a lone mind -- albeit a lone mind surrounded by and retreating from millions of other minds. Difficult to categorize, the lush EPs caused a commotion with "Sketch On Glass" undergoing reworks from the likes of Falty DL, SCB (Scuba's darker techno alias) and their sometime collaborator James Blake. With their own remixes (Foals and The xx) becoming hot property, Mount Kimbie have been a core part of the growing scene in London often associated with labels like Hyperdub and Hessle Audio. Dom and Kai met while at Southbank University, pushed together in a student hall that was previously a mental asylum -- where the ceilings were still ridiculously high to stop patients hanging themselves: "a cold, joyless, concrete building -- the sort of building where you'd drop a pen and the sound would just go on and on in an echo." Armed with found sound snips and a siege mentality, Kai and Dom set about turning London's ambience into rhythm, its chaos into coherence. Traces of influence remain -- the hard-earned spaces of Burial and The Bug vie with the berserk melodrama of Xiu Xiu and Grouper's sad-eyed glow, D'Angelo's pervert soul gets cleansed in the intimacy of Phil Elvrum's Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti's swollen Twin Peaks atmospheres find a cradle in Madlib's lax lope. The band's sound and response to the dubstep moment is very much their own. Sceneless and untethered from etiquette and genre codes, Crooks & Lovers floats through dubstep and hip-hop, jazz, techno and ambient, post-rock, UK garage and film scores to startling effect.

Artist:	MOUNT KIMBIE
Title:	Crooks & Lovers
Label:	HOTFLUSH RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	HF 004LP

Gatefold 2LP version. Mount Kimbie, the duo of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos -- release their highly anticipated debut album Crooks & Lovers on Hotflush. Armed with found sound snips and a siege mentality, Kai and Dom set about turning London's ambience into rhythm, its chaos into coherence. Traces of influence remain -- the hard-earned spaces of Burial and The Bug vie with the berserk melodrama of Xiu Xiu and Grouper's sad-eyed glow, D'Angelo's pervert soul gets cleansed in the intimacy of Phil Elvrum's Microphones, Angelo Badalamenti's swollen Twin Peaks atmospheres find a cradle in Madlib's lax lope. Sceneless and untethered from etiquette and genre codes, Crooks & Lovers floats through dubstep and hip-hop, jazz, techno and ambient, post-rock, UK garage and film scores to startling effect.

Artist:	MOUNT KIMBIE
Title:	Carbonated
Label:	HOTFLUSH RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.00
Catalog #:	HF 004LTD-CD

After releasing their debut album Crooks & Lovers in 2010 to huge critical acclaim and racking up numerous end of year lists including the shortlist for The Guardian's (UK) First Album Award, plus sell-out tours in North America, Australia and Europe, London duo Mount Kimbie announce the news of their next EP, Carbonated. This EP follows the release of the Blind Night Errand EP and will be the final release from the album. "Carbonated," the lead track on the EP, is joined by two previously-unreleased tracks, the buoyant effervescence of "Flux" and "Bave's Chords., which showcase the lush, elegant percussive sound Mount Kimbie have become known for. "Bave's Chords" was recorded around their early EP Maybes and "Flux" was created during the album recordings. Airhead, who's shortly releasing his own album on Brainmath and is a member of James Blake's live band, subtly twists "Carbonated" with his remix, while Belgian producer & DJ Peter Van Hoesen creates a six-minute dark techno rework for the dancefloor. "Adriatic," also from Crooks & Lovers, is transformed completely by Klaus with his style of detailed production hitting the mark once more. Crooks & Lovers defined.

Artist:	MOUNT KIMBIE
Title:	Maybes
Label:	HOTFLUSH RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HF 021EP

"Hotflush Recordings presents a brand new production duo that eludes classification: Mount Kimbie. Based in London, they have developed a truly unique sound whose experimental rhythms lend themselves to the fringes of dubstep, wonky and hip hop, but ooze with emotion and echoing ambient soundscapes that take the listener to an entirely different place. Due for release in the beginning of 2009, this first release features four tracks which capture their evolving sound. The minds behind Mount Kimbie, Dominic Maker and Kai Campos, both 22, met at university and began making music together in a home studio in Peckham. Hints of their influences from hip hop, jazz, dubstep and experimental electronica can be heard in their productions. The EP has already been well received, with support DJs including Mary Anne Hobbs' BBC Radio 1 Experimental show (on which they also recently performed a guest mix), Scuba on his podcast for XLR8R, Rob Booth's Electronic Explorations show, Ramadanman's podcast mix for Dub War NYC, and Alex Incyde on Sub FM."

Artist:	MOUNT KIMBIE
Title:	Sketch On Glass
Label:	HOTFLUSH RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HF 023EP

"Mount Kimbie have carved out another superb foursome for Hotflush, and once again the music is just as comfortable in the hiphop or electronica realm as it is dubstep. Folksy melodies and ducking piped synths swoop over garage cheek and serrated bass in opener 'Sketch On Glass,' before 'Serged' takes us deeper and darker with its anti-quantised beats, spring reverb drips and surgically-altered vocals. Flipside, an epic sonic vista in '50 Mile View' makes way for delicate instrumental RnB before the introverted 2-step bleep of 'At Least.'"

Artist:	MOUNT KIMBIE
Title:	Mount Kimbie Remixes Pt. 1
Label:	HOTFLUSH RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	HFRMX 006EP

"Hotflush presents the first of two EPs of remixes of Mount Kimbie. On the first, Dom and Kai's HF021 debut 'Maybes' gets a soulful treatment from their sometime collaborator James Blake, as heard on Scuba's recent Sub:Stance mix on Ostgut Ton, while 'Serged' from HF 023EP is reshaped into woozy garage by New Yorker FaltyDL. On the flip, DJ Mag's 2009 Best Breakthrough Producers Instra:mental transform 'At Least' into a blissed-out, bass-heavy 4/4 roller."

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