Kelpe

Kelpe may be the saving alias of London-based electronic designer and maker Kel McKeown. Developing up in the university or college city of Loughborough, Britain, McKeown first started tinkering with music as an adolescent, utilizing a Commodore Amiga family computer and a sampler to create rudimentary rave beats in the first ’90s. Though he performed in a few teenage rings, music drifted towards the wayside for a while and he didn’t positively begin his profession until after school whenever a friend persuaded him to send a demonstration to London-based label DC Recordings. Motivated by electronica serves like Prefuse 73, Planks of Canada, and performers in the Warp label, he was ultimately agreed upon to DC, who released his initial 12″ EP FOLKS ARE Trying to settle 2003. He quickly implemented up along with his debut record, Ocean Inside Body, in 2004 which received rave testimonials from prominent magazines like Wire. Carrying on to progress his fractured mixture of discovered sounds, examples, and woozy consumer electronics, he released another LP, Ex-Aquarium, in 2008 and another known as Cambio Wechsel in ’09 2009 for DC, furthermore to several even more EPs. For this period he also started remixing monitors for a number of various other artists like United kingdom instrumental band Crimson Snapper and French digital pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey. This year 2010, he still left DC, launching the Margins EP in the Dark Acre label as well as the Chocolate Cash EP on Fremdtunes, both which received airplay from important BBC DJ’s. He also started touring more, carrying out both solo pieces and dealing with longtime collaborator and drummer Chris Walmsley (Psapp, Broadcast), playing throughout European countries, the U.K., as well as the U.S. In 2013, he founded his very own label DRUT and released his 4th record, The Golden Eagle, in 2014.