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Squirrels, robots, subversion, perversion & badgers are just some of the themes associated with DC Recordings. It's been like this for over ten years and it ain't gonna change. It's our own fault, and with J Saul Kane at the helm, it was perhaps inevitable that this would be the case.
Rising from the ashes of Vinyl Solution in 1995, the plucked phoenix that is DC Recordings was originally hatched as an outlet for Kane's wayward audio adventures. However, like-minded artists began to gravitate towards his creaky vessel and, over seventy releases later, the ship is still afloat.
Broadcasting monthly with a series of deejay mixes from our extended family, "Death Before Distemper"' is a unique opportunity for listeners to dive beneath the surface of DC Recordings and follow us to the far most, funkiest, phreekiest, frontiers of so called "dance" music and beyond. From oddball disco edits to sound library down beats, dub chamber echoes, rhythm machine shakedowns, synth baths and electro showers, this is the carnival of sound that informs our wilfully weird world view; a skewed sense of humour, an aversion to po-faced pretensions and a penchant for the unusual are the key traits you'll need to comprehend this ram-shackle project, so hop aboard & hold tight, it's time to go down the rabbit hole.
www.dcrecordings.com
DC RECORDINGS DIGITAL CATALOGUE NOW AVAILABLE ON WWW.BLEEP.COM/DC
Rising from the ashes of Vinyl Solution in 1995, the plucked phoenix that is DC Recordings was originally hatched as an outlet for Kane's wayward audio adventures. However, like-minded artists began to gravitate towards his creaky vessel and, over seventy releases later, the ship is still afloat.
Broadcasting monthly with a series of deejay mixes from our extended family, "Death Before Distemper"' is a unique opportunity for listeners to dive beneath the surface of DC Recordings and follow us to the far most, funkiest, phreekiest, frontiers of so called "dance" music and beyond. From oddball disco edits to sound library down beats, dub chamber echoes, rhythm machine shakedowns, synth baths and electro showers, this is the carnival of sound that informs our wilfully weird world view; a skewed sense of humour, an aversion to po-faced pretensions and a penchant for the unusual are the key traits you'll need to comprehend this ram-shackle project, so hop aboard & hold tight, it's time to go down the rabbit hole.
www.dcrecordings.com
DC RECORDINGS DIGITAL CATALOGUE NOW AVAILABLE ON WWW.BLEEP.COM/DC
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DC Recordings Presents Kelpe
Kelpe is Kel Mckeown, from Loughborough, England. After tentative pre-teenage forays into cassette recorders and joke rap bands with friends, Kel devoted most of his teenage years to bone splintering skateboarding mishaps before deciding that loops and samples might provide him with a safer past time than trucks and wheels.
Despite adolescent attempts at computer music resulting in "crap rave efforts" made on a commodore Amiga, the process of sampling and sequencing provided him with a discipline and focus that is of fundamental importance to the creative process that he currently employs in the execution of his gob-smackingly impressive "head-nod-tronica" work-outs.
Coming to the attention of DC Recordings in early 2003, his first release for label was the 12" EP 'The People are Trying to Sleep', a wide eyed carnival of fractured beats and warped electronics. This was followed by the critically acclaimed album 'Sea Inside Body' (September 2004) and most recently, by bedroom discotheque 12" 'Sunburnt Eyelids' (October 2005).
With influences ranging from the bleeps & bass of classic Warp artists to the spectral folk of John Renbourn, and the minimalism of Steve Reich to the percussive space-scapes of Do Make Say Think, the diversity of the music that inspires Kelpe finds reflection in his own sonic adventures, informing his ever evolving sound, combining as map and compass to guide his lunar-bound b-boy throwdowns. It's an awareness of this constant state of flux that shapes his recordings, and we will study future transmissions with intrigue and wonderment.
Kelpe has just released his second album, Ex Aquarium on DC Recoridngs and will be performing with Live drummer at the Manchester leg of samurai.fm's 5th Birthday celebrations on Sunday 4th May as part of the Futuresonic festival in Manchester. For more details see the events page or check out www.futuresonic.com
www.dcrecordings.com
www.futuresonic.com
Despite adolescent attempts at computer music resulting in "crap rave efforts" made on a commodore Amiga, the process of sampling and sequencing provided him with a discipline and focus that is of fundamental importance to the creative process that he currently employs in the execution of his gob-smackingly impressive "head-nod-tronica" work-outs.
Coming to the attention of DC Recordings in early 2003, his first release for label was the 12" EP 'The People are Trying to Sleep', a wide eyed carnival of fractured beats and warped electronics. This was followed by the critically acclaimed album 'Sea Inside Body' (September 2004) and most recently, by bedroom discotheque 12" 'Sunburnt Eyelids' (October 2005).
With influences ranging from the bleeps & bass of classic Warp artists to the spectral folk of John Renbourn, and the minimalism of Steve Reich to the percussive space-scapes of Do Make Say Think, the diversity of the music that inspires Kelpe finds reflection in his own sonic adventures, informing his ever evolving sound, combining as map and compass to guide his lunar-bound b-boy throwdowns. It's an awareness of this constant state of flux that shapes his recordings, and we will study future transmissions with intrigue and wonderment.
Kelpe has just released his second album, Ex Aquarium on DC Recoridngs and will be performing with Live drummer at the Manchester leg of samurai.fm's 5th Birthday celebrations on Sunday 4th May as part of the Futuresonic festival in Manchester. For more details see the events page or check out www.futuresonic.com
www.dcrecordings.com
www.futuresonic.com
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| House | Techno | Electro | Trance |
| Disco | Funk | Soul | R & B |
| Breaks | Dubstep | Broken | Drum & Bass |
| Hip-Hop | Glitch | Garage | Scratch |
| Electronica | Downbeat | Ambient | Noise |
| World | Reggae | Jazz | Rock |
| Crossover | Mash-up | Eclectic | Verbal |
| Deep | Balearic | Future | Anthem |
| New | Cosmic | Tribal | Prog |
| Dark | Hard | Bit | Dub |
| Urban | Jazzy | Funky | Hardcore |
| Classic | Abstract | Retro | Minimal |
| Dirty | Latin | Afro | Punk |
