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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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Four years since their acclaimed debut album Margins Music, Keysound founders Dusk + Blackdown return with their second album, Dasaflex. The album features their singer Farrah, alongside jungle legend MC GQ and Marcus Nasty's mic man Shantie, aka the first MC to spit over UK funky. It also includes the single "High Road," the origins of which have been subject to feverish speculation in the music press of late. "In the period after making our debut album we swore we wouldn't, couldn't do it again," the duo explain. "Four years and hundreds of thousands of possibilities later, Dasaflex is where we're at." Further than that, the album's sleeve notes contain the following cryptic inclusion: "Metaflex: new album/new decade: death/rebirth, possibilities/limitations, groove/implosion, expansion/sub-division, positivity/strength, movement/rigidity, focus/non-linearity, community/solitude, drive/drift, local/global, weight/sublimation, tradition/mutation, feminine/masculine, love/loss, nostalgia/progress, dirty/clean, euphoria/dread." The pair have been producing music since 2000, started Keysound in 2005, joined Rinse FM in 2008 and still comb through approximately 500 tracks a month to share the most upfront monthly selection possible from the best up-and-coming dubstep, grime and UK funky spheres. In 2010 they built and toured a live project featuring grime MCs Trim and Durrty Goodz, Keysound singer Farrah, a synth keys professional and an Indian percussionist. In 2011 and into 2012, they released albums from LV & Joshua Idehen, Sully, Damu and the jaw-droppingly epic debut double CD from LHF. Their label has released music by Skream, Burial, Wiley, Zomby, Starkey, Trim, Zed Bias & Steve Gurley, Scratcha DVA, Geeneus, Durrty Goodz, Riko, Flowdan and more, and supported up-and-comers like Kowton, Logos, Grievous Angel, Balistiq Beats and Vibezin. Finally, in 2012, Keysound turns back to Dusk + Blackdown again.
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LDN 033LP
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LP version. Four years since their acclaimed debut album Margins Music, Keysound founders Dusk + Blackdown return with their second album, Dasaflex. The album features their singer Farrah, alongside jungle legend MC GQ and Marcus Nasty's mic man Shantie, aka the first MC to spit over UK funky. It also includes the single "High Road," the origins of which have been subject to feverish speculation in the music press of late. "In the period after making our debut album we swore we wouldn't, couldn't do it again," the duo explain. "Four years and hundreds of thousands of possibilities later, Dasaflex is where we're at." Further than that, the album's sleeve notes contain the following cryptic inclusion: "Metaflex: new album/new decade: death/rebirth, possibilities/limitations, groove/implosion, expansion/sub-division, positivity/strength, movement/rigidity, focus/non-linearity, community/solitude, drive/drift, local/global, weight/sublimation, tradition/mutation, feminine/masculine, love/loss, nostalgia/progress, dirty/clean, euphoria/dread." The pair have been producing music since 2000, started Keysound in 2005, joined Rinse FM in 2008 and still comb through approximately 500 tracks a month to share the most upfront monthly selection possible from the best up-and-coming dubstep, grime and UK funky spheres. In 2010 they built and toured a live project featuring grime MCs Trim and Durrty Goodz, Keysound singer Farrah, a synth keys professional and an Indian percussionist. In 2011 and into 2012, they released albums from LV & Joshua Idehen, Sully, Damu and the jaw-droppingly epic debut double CD from LHF. Their label has released music by Skream, Burial, Wiley, Zomby, Starkey, Trim, Zed Bias & Steve Gurley, Scratcha DVA, Geeneus, Durrty Goodz, Riko, Flowdan and more, and supported up-and-comers like Kowton, Logos, Grievous Angel, Balistiq Beats and Vibezin. Finally, in 2012, Keysound turns back to Dusk + Blackdown again.
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LDN 007EP
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Two certified killers on loud wax from London-based production duo Dan Frampton and Martin Clark aka Dusk + Blackdown from their Margins Music CD on Keysound. "Kuri Pataka" ties the desi-styled vocal talents of Teji and Farrah to subcontinental-sized bass. "Con/Fusion" is crisp, deep dubstep with Bollywood cinema vibrations. Large!
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LDN 005EP
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The world loves the sound of dubstep, and that's due in no small part to Martin Clark's influential writings. His detailed documentation of grime and dubstep has seen the Croydon sound travel around the world, and the kids are ready for deep bass and sparse beats. Beginning with a sample from some unknown Eastern cassette tape, we are instantly in dubstep nirvana, one foot firmly in China and one foot in a muddy puddle on the estates of South London.
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"From the influential stable of Martin Clark's Keysound label comes Dusk & Blackdown's latest plate; the anthemic 'Mantis'. The kids are ready for deep bass and sparse beats, so who are we to disagree? Beginning with a sample from some unknown Eastern cassette tape we are instantly in dubstep nirvana -- one foot firmly in China and one foot in a muddy puddle on the Estates of South London. As leaden beats tumble over ear-pummeling bass it becomes obvious that the man Dusk intended this to lay waste to the world's growing soundsystems. Flip over for Martin Clark's own take on 'Mantis', which spaces out the beats a little and drops a truly destructive throbbing bassline for good measure. With much of the genre taking tentative steps into Eastern experimentation it's nice to see these two producers getting it absolutely right without exploiting the 'world music' angle too intensely. Stir-fried to perfection!"
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LDN 001EP
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"'Submerged' is a testament to uprising. The first kick rises out of a 'Submerged's' keysound: a murky, bubbling, primordial soup. The kick coalesces into a live, organic rhythm, leading onwards. At first tiny shards of light filter through the mire, before a weak sun breaks through the grey clouds. 'Drenched' is a snapshot of urban underground living, spread wide across one 12". Tense, intense, compressed, it begins on a south London train, reflecting the rhythms and textures of our surroundings. the train heads south through some of dubstep's birthplaces: Streatham, Norbury and Norwood, ending of course, in Croydon. The recording was made late on a Sunday night, heading for one of Digital Mystikz' Dub Sessions parties."
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