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LDN 072LP
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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 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 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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