Kelpe: 'Microscope Contents' (12"/download, DC Recordings)

Kelpe: 'Microscope Contents' (2009)

Kelpe a.k.a. Kel McKeown will have his new album, Cambio Wechsel (DCR109), out 19 October 2009 on UK's DC Recordings, featuring his IDM-ish excursions. Before the album there will be this single and video.



Artist: Kelpe
Title: Microscope Contents
Format: 12"/digital download
Cat.no.: DCR108
Label: DC Recordings (UK)
Release date: 21 September 2009

Tracklist:

1. Microscope Contents (4:03)
2. The Blankout Agreement [Slugabed remix] (4:51)
3. Dig Up Stupid (5:45)
4. The Blankout Agreement (4:09)

Credits:

Written and produced by Kel McKeown.
Track 2 remixed by Slugabed.
Mastered by Guy Davie at Electric Mastering.

(p) & © DC Recordings. LC7871. Published by Schnozza Music.

Press release notes from DC Recordings:

"Microscope Contents" is the first single to be taken from Kelpe's forthcoming third album for DC Recordings, Cambio Weschel, (which is released on October 12 2009). It begins with the eponymous title track -- an infectious, bass-driven, electro melody which pulses over a constantly evolving percussive groove.

Slugabed 'Dig Up Stupid' is exclusive to this single (it does not appear on the forthcoming album) - a gently grooving electro track replete with warm bass drones that intermittently bubbles with sinister arpeggios that strangely evoke some lost, anxious moment of arcade game tension.

For the fourth and final track Kelpe himself takes album highlight 'The Blankout Agreement' and reworks into a club-weight steppa that rocks its self back and forth from head-nodding groove to floor-smashing anthem, all the while chattering with percussion and subtle melodic inflections...

Kelpe (joined by Chris Walmsley on drums) will be playing selected live dates around Europe to accompany the release of Cambio Weschel. For more info, see http://www.myspace.com/kelpemusic.

Release info @ DC Recordings

Death Before Distemper 4 - Mixed & Re-Edited by Kelpe

The forthcoming release on DC Recordings works both as a great mix record and sampler album of the label's eclectic output, where analogue electronic sounds meet styles as diverse as disco, Krautrock, IDM, electro and abstract hip-hop.



Artist: Various Artists
Title: Death Before Distemper 4 - Mixed & Re-Edited by Kelpe (CD)
Cat.no.: DCR103CD
Record label: DC Recordings (UK)
Date: 7 September 2009

Tracklist:

1. Depth Charge: Hronn's Intro
2. Depth Charge:
(i) Hubba Hubba Hubba (Knife in the Bag)
(ii) Bounty Killer III (Where's the Gold?)
4. Alexander's Dark Band: (i) Bonus (ii) Colour
Kelpe: Skylla
Audible: Minal
4. The Emperor Machine: Fear of Woman
5. The Oscillation: Head Hang Low
Greedy Fingers: Cutting Progress
Padded Cell: Beautiful Gloom
6. Kelpe: Sickly Situation
O.H. Krill: Seven Up Swing (Cherrystones remix)
7. Booze: Insanity Drive
8. Depth Charge: Robotomo
9. Padded Cell: Signal Failure
10. The Emperor Machine: (i) Monkey Overbite (ii) No Sale No I.D. (Simian Mobile Disco version)
The Oscillation: Head Hang Low (Kelpe version)
11. Kelpe: Bread Machine Bred
Vincent Markowski: Dirty Capsules
12. Big Two Hundred: Kog
Depth Charge: Bounty Killer III
Arcadion: Arc
13. Tom Tyler: The Crippled Diode
Big Two Hundred: Drum Spell
14. Kelpe: (i) Shipwreck Glue (Wes Coats remix)
(ii) Shipwreck Glue
15. The Orichalc Phase: Violations (dub)
16. White Light Circus: Rocket Ride (extended version)
Alexanders Dark Band: Dead Metal Dyno Rock
17. Vincent Markowski: False Flag
18. The Oscillation: Visitation (Exit)
Kelpe: Yippee Space Ghost (Sidversion)
Skye: Part One
19. The Emperor Machine: Pro Mars
20. The Octagon Man: Vidd
21. Higamos Hogamos: Infinity Plus One
Padded Cell: Triple X Syndrome (Depth Charge remix)
22. Tom Tyler: Papa FM
23. Deadly Avenger: Malpaso
24. Alexanders Dark Band: (i) Tram Ride (ii) Lord Calrec
25. Depth Charge: Ride
26. Tom Tyler: Carmel Conclusion
Kelpe: Whirlwound (Stormy Version)
Tom Tyler: Undupitably
27. Depth Charge: Desire
28. Higamos Hogamos: The Illuminoids

Press release notes from DC Recordings:

Close on the heels of the Death Before Distemper 3, which saw The Idjut Boys mix up the more discofied elements of the DC catalogue into a succulent melting pot, comes Part 4 in the series -- a crunched-up counterpart to the Idjuts mix that has been assembled by DC's own aquatic beat-monger KELPE.

Given the run of the label's catalogue, but with the emphasis this time on the earlier and more experimental side, Kelpe splices and dices material by DC protagonists old and new to create strange and unlikely hybrids. Moving rapidly through material (forty eight tracks are featured in around forty-six minutes), the results are a beguiling mix that present the sounds of DC Recordings in some startling new ways...

The frenzied beats of Depth Charge's formative work rubs shoulders with the psychotic fury of Booze; the smooth glassy funk of Tom Tyler combines majestically with atmospheric beats of Big Two Hundred; Octagon Man's proto-techno is fused with the cosmic pop of Higamos Hogamos...

This mix precedes Kelpe's brand new studio album Cambio Wechsel, which will be released in October 2009, and forms the continuation of the Death Before Distemper series that began with the original 2006 compilation (DCR76), 2008's Revenge of the Iron Ferret (DCR89) and the aforementioned Idjut Boys mix (DCR95) that was released in spring 2009.

Kelpe: Extraquarium

Kelpe: 'Keep Danger' (live 2008)

More Kelpe video clips @ YouTube

DC Recordings (UK) strikes again! On a quick listening this one features an interesting blend of post-disco, Krautrock rhythms with live drums, some psychedelic sounds and maybe a touch of IDM...

Artist: Kelpe
Title: Extraquarium
Label: DC Recordings
Cat. No: DCR94
Format: 12" / digital download
Release Date: 6 October 2008

Tracklist:

01 Bread Machine Bred (4:38) [Zombie Zombie Remix] *
02 Shipwreck Glue (6:07) [Kelpe Extraversion] *
03 Stop Parching Yourself (4:53) [Fulgeance Booty Call Remix] *
04 Shipwreck Glue (4:49) [Wes Coats Remix] *
05 Whirlwound (5:02) [Kelpe Stormy Version] **
06 Shipwreck Glue (4:53) [Architeq Version] **
07 Colours Don't Leak (4:05) [The Boats Remix] **
08 Cut It Upwards (6:02) [The Oscillation Sub-Aquatic Version] **

* to be released on 12" vinyl & download
** to be released as download only

Credits:

Written & produced by Kel McKeown.

01: Remixed by Zombie Zombie. Zombie Zombie is Etienne Jaumet & Cosmic Neman.
02: Remixed by Kelpe. Original drums played by Kel McKeown, recorded by Jimmy Robertson at Schloss Gramophone.
Fulgeance (courtesy of Musique Large).
04: Remixed by Scotty Coats and Wes The Mes aka Wes Coats, additional guitar by Dale Hauskins.
05: Remixed by Kelpe. Original drums played and recorded by Kel McKeown at Schloss Gramophone. Guitar by Adam Richens.
06: Remixed by Architeq.
07: Remixed by The Boats.
08: Remixed by The Oscillation.

Press release notes:

The release of Kelpe's Ex-Aquarium album back in February 2008 was met with a swathe of critical acclaim and followed by a series of incendiary live shows, all of which have unquestionably informed this wondrous cast of artists and producers, who have turned their hand to remixing various album tracks with wildly different results...

Gallic synth fetishists Zombie Zombie (Versatile) take time out from their on-going live rampage to deliver their first ever remix -- a complete remake of 'Bread Machine Bred' into a brooding and endlessly building epic. Fulgeance (Musique Large) brings the sub-bass to 'Stop Parching Yourself', creating a booty-fied, dancefloor romper that slips and slides like a frogman in the shallows.

'Shipwreck Glue' gets strung out and dosed up on Californian sunshine courtesy of Wes Coats (Rong), Balearic disco energy reminiscent of Studio or Mountain Of One washing over the ping-pong staccatos of the Kelpe original. Fellow beat mongerer Architeq (Tirk) takes on the same track, adding extra crunch and swagger to this manphibian anthem.

Kelpe himself remakes 'Shipwreck Glue' and 'Whirlwound', the latter rolling and swelling with added percussive energy, the former moving into loftier tempos from the original to make a dancefloor bomb of frenzied arrhythmia.

The Boats (Moteer) bring a mellow side to proceedings, taking the lambent tones of 'Colours Don't Leak' and swaddling them in delicate cello chords and an ebbing 303. Lastly DC label mates The Oscillation divert their gaze away from the cosmos and towards the deep, adding extra weights to the already heavy 'Cut It Upwards' and taking it to deeper depths!

Watch out for Kelpe playing live dates across Europe soon! For more information check www.dcrecordings.com or http://myspace.com/kelpemusic.