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LDN 076EP
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Keysound Recordings present three unique cuts from Scratcha DVA X Gage. Dark, euphoric, weighty, and somewhat restless, they defy obvious categorization. Gage has made himself a formidable reputation by releasing some of the most forward-thinking darker dance music in the last three years, predominantly on the ever-quality Crazy Legs imprint. "Telo" was a standout dancefloor moment, equal parts impactful and experimental, quickly followed up by the Mercury EP, 2017 Stay Paro (2017) and his banger-collab with Kevin Jz Prodigy, "Bad Bitch". Scratcha DVA first appeared on Keysound Recordings with "Bullet A'Go Fly" featuring Badness, Riko, Flowdan, and Killa P.
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LDN 075EP
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Remnants/London Underground 2014-16 is a collection of lost deep tech dubs from Hugo Massien. After releases on labels such as XL Recordings, E-Beamz, Tectonic and Audio Rehab comes a 12 of tracks that date from 2014 -2016. Dark, percussive yet catchy, the productions originate from the peak years of London's underground deep tech scene, at a time where the movement bubbled with an abundance of energy and creative possibilities. Massien was one of the foremost contributors to this wave, as this collection attests.
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LDN 074EP
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London-based Otik presents four original productions on vinyl plus a remix by Blackdown. Collectively they are weighty contributions to the space emerging between techno and bass music being forged by labels such as Timedance, Hessle Audio, 3024 and Ilian Tape.
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LDN 073EP
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Across WHB EP, Kellen 303 maps out his unique but bleak vision. The title track, a volley of thunderous kicks, samples a phone interview Kellen 303 held with a grime MC close to Keysound's hearts. "'What's Happening Brotha' (WHB) is titled such because these songs were made at a very dark time in my life," he explains. "There is also a visual/thematic component to my music. . . . 'Planet X' is a song about going war, the 'Interstellar' mix is song about traveling to that war in suspended animation." "Spy Glass" features Rainey.
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Keysound Recordings present a weightless album from label boss Blackdown. Those Moments is his first solo LP, features fellow Margins Music (LDN 014CD, 2009) contributors Trim, Dusk, and Farrah and, like the imprint's Rollage sub series, is centered at 130 bpm. Each of the tracks is a distillation of a fleeting moment. The tracks and LP itself are short and constrained, relying on only voices, synths, and sub bass. The album came about in a quick intense burst and many of the tracks represent snapshots of brief instances -- a bitter-sweet moment of inflection, a moment of positivity, digital over-stimulation, awe, loss, intensity, anger, nostalgia, regret, honesty, relief, and joy.
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LDN 071LP
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Escape is the second album from UK don Sully. Featuring grime legends Jamakabi (Roll Deep) and Jendor (Essentials, Organised Grime), it showcases Sully's peerless status across UK bass-driven music, moving though epic soundcscapes, twisted ragga jams, dark two-step, grime, and chopped-up jungle. "With musicm, one of the big motivations for me," explains Sully, "is its potential to push the crap into the background -- to create moments where problems go out the window for a while. That's the drive behind Escape."
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LDN 070EP
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"C-Troit" is a name revived from a lost, unfinished track by Blackdown in the very earliest "roots" years of dubstep. A hybrid of the words "Croydon" and "Detroit", it's a heuristic for the place between Greater London's bass-lead music and the halcyon synths of early Detroit techno. Now that there's a growing body of dark, 130bpm-ish rollage, from within the Keysound Recordings camp and crews beyond, Rollage Vol.3 seeks to throw warm light into the shadows, with the tracks "Godlike Power", "Clueless" featuring Dusk, and "Halcyon Skies (Rollage Mix)".
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LDN 069EP
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Things Betwixt EP is an emotive new addition to the label's synth-lead, chromatic, melodic sub-canon. Lyeform, aka Ben McCarthy, is an experimental electronic artist from London with an emphasis on bass and precision drum programming. Lyeform's expansive sound incorporates cutting-edge sound design whilst remaining within the broad structure of UK 'nuum genres. His past releases include an EP on GRNDWRK and a 12" on Mozaik, as well as a compilation feature on the forward-thinking Studio Rockers label, alongside regular collaborator Nomi.
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LDN 067EP
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All four tracks on Rollage Vol.2 are built from the same constrained sound palate and they center around a short audio recording made on a mobile phone at a Keysound Sessions club night in 2015, during a Riko and Kahn & Neek set. As well as using the same family of sounds, all four tracks - "Original", "Feverish Weightless", "Techrollage", and "8bar" mixes - roll at the same 130 BPM so they can be mixed into each other. But they also are designed to suggest a diversity of possible spaces, energies, and intensities within nominal constraints.
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LDN 065EP
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"Ricky" flips an iconic jungle ident over a dirty 8-bar drop. The flip sees former Roll Deep and Dizzee-producer, Wonder's "Gunman What" remade as a Wiley-style devil mix, with an explosion of Waifer gunshots and AMS bass to boot. Mumdance, Logos, Spooky, Dusk + Blackdown, Kahn & Neek have been playing the release and DJ Sinclair beats circulate among London's wider Boxed crew.
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LDN 063EP
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Keysound Recordings present an unapologetic grime banger from legendary grime producer Terror Danjah and former Roll Deep member Jamakabi. The first bars, "Call it how you mean... we tell them to fuck off, how you mean?" Alongside the instrumental, the 12" features a deadly grime remix from Logos and a mix from label co-owner Blackdown.
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Debut EP from Atlas - contemporary of Keysound family member Etch. The Solitude EP's title track has a pensive melodic tension broken only by skeletal drum flickers and sub gravity. It builds through layers of abstraction over four minutes towards a massive emotional apex. "On the Cusp" explores similar themes, using fragments of wistful dialog interwoven with skeletal drums. The EP concludes with "Alone In A Timespan", yet further taking the form & function to near collapse. Finally, it pulls back, returning to more familiar club dynamics with the dubby, bass-heavy rolling of "Calm".
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LDN 061EP
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"Gated" began life as a lush, percussive instrumental that sat between gqom, UK funky's offbeat percussion, house's padded textures, and reggae's low-slung subs. It became a pivotal record at Keysound Sessions, scattering light into dark corners. Then three vocalists from three different countries made their twists on it: yard-style UK garage vocalist Specialist Moss, South Africa's Ruffest, known for their work on LV's 2012 Sebenza, album and Jamaica's Shokryme, an affiliate of dancehall's Aidonia and the Equiknoxx crew. The EP was "hot mixed" live on an outboard desk in east London by OKZharp and Samrai; each mix a one take moment laid down.
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LDN 059EP
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Truce cites Kenny Dope, Frankie Knuckles, Marc Kinchen, and Dennis Ferrer as influences, though "most important is my Dad who was doing music before I was born . . . Studio time with him was my biggest influence." His father is calypso artist Ras Shorty I, formerly known as Lord Shorty. "Be There" and "Uhh" are hypnotic, bassy rollers; estranged cousins to both Beneath's Keysound EP (LDN 034EP, 2102) and LFO's "LFO". Be There/Uhh is Keysound's first release from the vast, vibrant, and under-reported deeptech movement, the successor to UK funky scene.
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LDN 057EP
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Keysound Recordings presents a grimey addition to the family: an EP from JT the Goon, fresh from his critically acclaimed 2015 debut album on Oil Gang. Four versions of the "Oil on Ice" riddim, including three VIP versions commissioned for the label so that "Oil on Ice" could be played in the camp's rolling 130bpm sets. JT the Goon (an early member of Slew Dem Crew alongside Chronik, Waifer, Rage, et al.) co-produced "Gunman Riddim," the track that made the Korg Triton's amsfeedbacklead preset a grime staple almost as recognizable as Wiley's eski click and Musical Mob's Pulse X bass hits.
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LDN 060EP
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Lamont's Missed Calls EP is a bold exercise in blatant contradictions; it's grimey but sonically spacious, with house-'n'-garage tempos yet near zero-point energy. Despite featuring two emerging grime MCs -- Grim Sickers and Trim-affiliate Nico Lindsay -- the EP is just as close to LV's 2010 38 EP (feat. Josh Idehen) (LDN 017EP) or the darkest Wen material as Trim's classic Soulfood mixtapes. Lamont debuted "In the Field (feat. Nico Lindsay)" at Keysound Sessions; "Death Slide (feat. Grim Sickers)" premiered on Dusk + Blackdown's Rinse FM show and has won support from Kahn & Neek, Loefah, Parris, and Riz la Teef.
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LDN 056EP
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This one needs little introduction. The biggest track in the 2015 Keysound family arsenal -- Walton's remix of Wen's "Play Your Corner (feat. Riko)" -- finally hits wax, barging its way into the space between dark 130 rollage and grime. On the flip, Kahn & Neek's remix reveals a more nuanced side compared to their usual rave-destroying, grimey-dubplate-style.
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LDN 054LP
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Elusive London collective LHF follow their cherished 2012 debut album Keepers of the Light (LDN 029CD) and their 2015 collaboration with The Ragga Twins (LDN 053EP) with their second album, the compact ten-track long-player For the Thrown. "This music is cult music," explains the clan, "and we're not sure we'll ever quite fit in anywhere but the album is exactly that -- an album for the misfits, those that frustrate due to not being easy to define, those that are discarded and thrown away." Consisting of core and satellite sounds, LHF have built an alternate sonic platform upon which they can operate freely; familiar in essence but essentially an unknown quantity. Their works harbors both ghostly memories and echoes of past underground movements since faded, as well as glimpses of what might be. Members of LHF include Amen Ra, Double Helix, No Fixed Abode, Low Density Matter, Octaviour, Escobar Seasons, Solar Man, and Lumin Project. For the Thrown includes tracks by Amen Ra, Amen Ra and Octaviour, and Amen Ra featuring No Fixed Abode. Members are as at home in London, Mumbai, LA, Rio, and New York, as they are when reaching out into the near reaches of the cosmos or the past.
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LDN 053EP
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Keysound Recordings are excited to announce the return of one of their most elusive and celebrated acts, LHF. After a trio of vinyl EPs (including LDN 018EP and LDN 019EP) and a cult 2012 debut double album (LDN 029CD), the clan disappeared to regroup. Now, in 2015, they have emerged with an EP of dark, rolling beats featuring Hackney's legendary Ragga Twins.
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LDN 052EP
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Damu follows up his previous Keysound release, Unity (LDN 027CD, 2011), with four intense, sour sound constructions. "This EP started as war dubs for Keysound nights," explains Damu. "I really like the competitive vibe of the scene in London and I worked on the EP across Manchester, Sheffield and Croydon from 2013-14... Since my debut album my wiring has changed completely; it's the sonics of individual sounds that gets me hyped now and I think this EP reflects a bit more of a mathematical approach." Damu has driven himself not toward grim per se, but something like grime, and beyond.
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LDN 050LP
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Double 12" version. The 50th release on Keysound Recordings. The compilation moves through dark percussive 130-bpm rollage from Parris, Aphix, Caski, and Etch. Grimey influences emerge via Wen and the Sully remix of Balistiq Beats (feat. Riko), before an explosion of synths and color from Murlo and DLVRY engulf the scene. "Keysound is home for me, and listening through the compilation the doors are wide open to welcome edgy new talent to the family," said Wen.
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LDN 050CD
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The 50th release on Keysound Recordings. The compilation moves through dark percussive 130-bpm rollage from Parris, Aphix, Caski, and Etch. Grimey influences emerge via Wen and the Sully remix of Balistiq Beats (feat. Riko), before an explosion of synths and color from Murlo and DLVRY engulf the scene. "Keysound is home for me, and listening through the compilation the doors are wide open to welcome edgy new talent to the family," said Wen. The CD version also includes tracks by Logos, Dusk + Blackdown, E.m.m.a., Facta, Epoch, and Luke Benjamin.
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LDN 049EP
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Dusk + Blackdown present five tracks for Keysound Recordings -- the dark, aquatic 8-bar rollage of "Timeless," two driving percussive "Back 2 Go FWD" versions, the Detroit/broken "Peng One Two," and a beatless "Epic Jam." All written at 130 bpm but differing widely in mood and impact, they aim at the tricky paradox of diversity but interconnectedness. Three more tracks make up the doublepack: Blackdown remixes Epoch's "Steppenwolf," while Horsepower and Facta remix two Dusk + Blackdown tracks.
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LDN 048LP
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2LP version. Islands is the second album and live project from Worldwide Award-winning producers LV, and Benin City vocalist Josh Idehen, three years on from their critically-acclaimed debut collaboration Routes. Where the Routes album saw Josh's voice used in fragments to examine themes of life in modern London, Islands sees LV move Idehen's lyrics and vocals front and center. On "Imminent," overheard whispers on an East London balcony tell the tale of an unforeseen demise, while on "Waiting for the Night" Josh drew on honest reflections of his experiences after he returned from Nigeria. "Obsessed" is about an unhealthy, social-media enabled reaction to being put in the post-coital friend-zone. Between Josh's observational eye and LV's considered yet dancefloor moving production style, with its funky hardware synth jams and live drums, delightful aesthetic contradictions abound on Islands. Lead single "Imminent" has received huge support across BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, and upon supplying the parts of the tune for a remix competition, LV were overwhelmed with over 120+ remixes. Of the album as a whole, the title-track "Island" is perhaps the most unexpected, and took some strength to find. Josh had been working on different versions of a story, until he had a moment of clarity. "I literally just thought, 'you know what? I am just going to write what I feel is the funniest, darkest story that I would be happy to read,' so that I felt comfortable with myself and not give a fuck about what anybody else thought."
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Islands is the second album and live project from Worldwide Award-winning producers LV, and Benin City vocalist Josh Idehen, three years on from their critically-acclaimed debut collaboration Routes. Where the Routes album saw Josh's voice used in fragments to examine themes of life in modern London, Islands sees LV move Idehen's lyrics and vocals front and center. On "Imminent," overheard whispers on an East London balcony tell the tale of an unforeseen demise, while on "Waiting for the Night" Josh drew on honest reflections of his experiences after he returned from Nigeria. "Obsessed" is about an unhealthy, social-media enabled reaction to being put in the post-coital friend-zone. Between Josh's observational eye and LV's considered yet dancefloor moving production style, with its funky hardware synth jams and live drums, delightful aesthetic contradictions abound on Islands. Lead single "Imminent" has received huge support across BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra, and upon supplying the parts of the tune for a remix competition, LV were overwhelmed with over 120+ remixes. Of the album as a whole, the title-track "Island" is perhaps the most unexpected, and took some strength to find. Josh had been working on different versions of a story, until he had a moment of clarity. "I literally just thought, 'you know what? I am just going to write what I feel is the funniest, darkest story that I would be happy to read,' so that I felt comfortable with myself and not give a fuck about what anybody else thought."
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