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Keysound is 20 this year; Dusk + and I have been producing together for longer. Turns out I've started to notice there's some underlying patterns…Workflow: over time maybe our music making follows an underlying pattern?What if this is the workflow for how Dusk and I write music?Influences & inspirationValuesArchetypes (sometimes)Jamming x visionTracks 1/ Influences & inspirationWe
Mirror Touch has the next release on Keysound and the title track is the first ever to go full Detroit techno, so it made sense to have a conversation, go deep.It began as a classic artist Q&A, but evolved into more of a back & forth dialog, in part because - as you'll see - Mirror Touch has had many quiet influences on my productions with Dusk over recent years they needed recognising.&
Blackdown: Hey Introspekt, welcome to my blog like it was 2004 all over again! I'm super excited about your album "Moving the Center" and to hear how it came about. To set the scene let's start at the beginning: can you help me understand where you grew up especially in terms of the culture?Introspekt: I think one of the important things about where I'm from in terms of how it shaped
Rollage vol6: Traditions EP by Dusk + BlackdownI've interviewed 100s of dance music producers over decades & I've spotted a pattern. Unlike, say, songwriters there's usually more stories behind the music, titles and art work than is immediately obvious when simply listening to the track. I think producers should do more to tell those stories, so walk the walk, here's some thoughts
Went to see François K talk about his musical journey at the British Library last night at Classic Album Sundays. And I’m reminded: here’s how he accidentally inspired a track I made, “UKD”.François K’s been involved with so many musical moments: being in the room to see the Second Great Miles Davis Quintet reform (including Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter, Tony Williams & Wayne Shorter). A&
"Life's Different Now" EP [Keysound] is out now on Bandcamp and Spotify.Hey Joe! So what inspired the feel of this EP? My work is usually based around the themes of questioning consciousness and dreams. During the pandemic, I learned that if I set an intention before going to sleep I could use my dreams as tools to solve creative barriers I had while awake. There’s a
This is the second part on my interview with Oris Jay aka RS4. Part 1 is hereFull interview as video"I'll Be Good" by RS4 (Oris Jay)Lockdown[B]: Can you tell me a little bit more about the house track that you're making or some of the stuff that you're like excited by at the moment? What have you heard recently or made recently that's got you in back in the studio? [
Want to watch instead? The full interview is here as videoThis interview was recorded early November 2021, after the major UK lockdowns but before the Omicron wave hit: this is part one. I've known Oris Jay for more than 20 years, but beyond label logistics, we hadn't spoken in detail in a long time. Yet he felt like a certified UK bass music legend that doesn't get mentioned
Tl;dr:Following a thought provoking tweet about sets focused on unreleased music, I'm going to try to respectfully make the case for why they have value. IntroBefore anyone gets funny, Eich is perhaps my favourite DJ of the last 3 years and the person I feel musically closest to outside of Keysound. We talk regularly, we've done interviews together, she’s supported us a ton. I’d go so far as to
Rinse FM · Keysound (Best of 2020) - 24 December 2020 ** Keysound Rinse FM December 'Best of 2020' show **J-Shadow "Final Departure" [Unreleased]MP Productions "In My Heart" [Warp]No Fixed Abode "Though Process" [Unreleased]Kellen303 "The Dream" [Unreleased]Kellen303 "Life's Different Now" [Unreleased]European 305, DJ Papercuts "Five Alive" [European 305]European 305, DJ Papercuts "Shola
2010: 130 2012: 130 2020: ... 2020: More Cowbell 2020: "RollageLive vol 1: Nightfall" on Bandcamp or Spotify.
Last month on Rinse we did an impromptu vinyl "roots of dubstep" show. While I think about this era a lot - it's one of my favourites of all time - and use it for inspiration while writing music, I don't tend to play old school sets very often. It is now as it was then: my jam is digging through new music to find what's next. The last "Roots of..." I did was for Holloway & Foxmind's Radar
Hugo Massien's "Remnants / London Underground 2014 - 16" EP is out now: hear it on Spotify or buy vinyl & digital ----- Blackdown: So I think the very natural - if not very original - place to start is to hear a little bit about your beginnings of making music and the beginnings of releases because everything will probably build from there. Can you talk me
"Alright people, let's move like we got a purpose..." B: So, could you introduce yourself? Where are you from, where you at as we speak?” K303: This is Kellen303 I am in Brooklyn, on my bed, Superbowl Sunday not giving a shit about sports. B: Could you tell me a bit about when you began the ‘WHB’ EP? K303: That happened last year, last August. I had a
Less is more We live in an era of abundance*. Choice, choice and if that’s not enough choice, yet more choice. Within a couple of clicks from your smart phone’s home screen there is more music than you can listen to in your lifetime, or even in a thousand lifetimes. If that’s the case where the hell do you start? After all we mostly don’t want to listen to random music we don’t know or
Dusk + Blackdown Keysound Rinse FM March 2017 show ft Ganesa Special Request “Stairfoot Lane Bunker” [forthcoming Houndstooth] Suda “Inner Monologue” [Her Records] AlexAugier “TFG Track 4” [unreleased] ? "Detour" ? [unreleased] Trilla P “Exciter” [unreleased] Krotone "System Check" [unreleased] Lack “Get A Grip” [unreleased] Grievious angel “Wicked Sound (Yak Remix)” [Black Beacon
**Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM Feb 2017 Keysound show** Naaahhh “Blooz” [Blackest Ever Black]Naaahhh "My Theme" [Blackest Ever Black]Vern & Milla “Intro riff” [Unreleased]Logos & Mumdance “Cafe del Mar” [Different Circles]Sega Bodega “Ess B (Intro)” [Crazy Legs]Glot “Flaga” [unreleased]Sega Bodega “Strings In April” [Crazy Legs]Isslund "Erotic Weakness" [Unreleased]Ahadadream
Keysound show rinse FM Jan 17 Good Lads "Marger Evil remix" Fujin "Expanse" Glot "Ruinous" Yamaneko "Shadow Temple Early" [Different Circles] Blackdown “Keysound Sessions Anthem [feverish weightless mix]” [Keysound Recordings] Sharp Veins "Already Bones" Blackdown “Halcyon Skies” Glot "Vitriol Bile Pt. 2" Jett Chandon “Julia” Jam City "Direct Drums" [Night Slugs] Mr. Mitch “Dru (Part 2
Dusk + Blackdown mix Blackdown “Hackney Vandal Patrol” Blackdown “Halcyon Skies” Koast & Blackdown “More Drumz, More Rollage” Blackdown “Somewhere Else” Blackdown “Untouchable” Rollage vol.1: WDYM?! (rollage VIP) Dusk + Blackdown “Clueless” Blackdown & Nico Lindsay “No Affiliation (Keysound Sessions Anthem 8bar vocal mix)” Dusk + Blackdown “Peng One Two VIP” Blackdown "Keysound
Dusk + Blackdown Rinse Nov 16 Alexx A-Game x Swing Ting “A-Game Everyday” (Master) [Swing Ting] Rider Shafique "I-Dentity" [Young Echo] Blackdown “Keysound Sessions Anthem (Feverish Weightless mix)” [unreleased] Kyo x Daffy "Metroid (Devil Mix)" [unreleased] Vern & Milla “Yoshimitsu” [unreleased] Om Unit "Hidden Dread" [forthcoming Cosmic Bridge] LKD Beats “Arctic” [unreleased] Orson “
Dusk & I have done tracklists for every one of our Rinse shows since 2007. I do this because I want the new producers we find to get discovered & recognised. Lost dubs is all well and "elusive" or "ephemeral" or whatever, but in a world of more music being made or published than we each could listen to in any one lifetime, cutting some signal through the noise matters. At least, it
**Dusk + Blackdown Rinse FM May 16** Dusk + Blackdown “What do you mean?! (parro mix)” [unreleased] Threnody "Forward Levels" [unreleased] Mark pritchard “The Blinds Cage Feat Beans” [Warp] Fox "Chaos (prod. by Samrai & Platt) [unreleased] Blackdown “Hackney Vandal Patrol” [unreleased] Delo "Can You" [unreleased] Squane “Bog” [unreleased] Yak "Anju" [unreleased] Champion “Chrome” [
An hour of dubs from me. Truce & Damu in two very different mixes to follow.
Join the Keysound Rinse list, get free tracks to DL and the show emailed to you: http://bit.ly/keysoundrinselist **Keysound show Rinse FM April '16** Blackdown “Keysound Sessions Anthem (feverish weightless mix)” [unreleased] Becoming (N)one “Becoming (N)one” [v1984] Becoming (N)one “Pre, Post, Pre(-lude) i” [v1984] Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke “Beautiful People” [Warp] Anz “Functioning
Keysound Rinse show March 16 Atlas “Solitude” [unreleased] Desto “untitled” [unreleased] Aphix “Chemtrails” [unreleased] Walton “Caught in a Trap” [unreleased] Walton “Black Hole” [unreleased] Beneath “Giv Sum” [No Symbols] RS4 “Be Free” [unreleased] Near “Lurk” [unreleased] Blackdown “Where we come from” [unreleased] Tsvi "Tropical Panamax" [unreleased] Blackdown “untitled