Following a couple of shows earlier in the month in Italy (a video below of the one in Verona), we have some live dates booked, mostly with Chris Walmsley on drums –

02/02 – Mattatoio, Carpi (Italy)
23/02 – Spazio Aereo, Venice (Italy)
08/03 – EXIT07, Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
21/03 – DJ set, Hamburg (Germany)
05/04 – Lapsus Festival / CCCB, Barcelona (Spain)
19/04 – Electron Festival, Geneva (Switzerland)

For bookings (live & DJ):

France: benoitjoubert@allofloride.com
Italy: info@pentagonbooking.net
Germany / Austria / Switzerland: sofia@popmondial.de
Belgium: benjamin@superspectacular.com
Australia: dave@lifeisnoise.com
Other: music@kelpe.co.uk

I was keeping busy last year but evidently too busy to update my site here so a few things went un-noted.

Mainly, I released a remixed version of my album and it featured Mike Slott, Dam Mantle, Fulgeance, Mr Chop and many more – remixing the entire album in order – for a full 10 track digital package and 5 track vinyl version.

Here is a video for the Fuewa remix of ‘Answered’ and you can find a full bandcamp stream at the bottom. Unfortunately the vinyl is sold out on bandcamp but can be found here at Bleep.

Pleased to say that I will be performing a live gig with drummer Chris Walmsley at the MAMA Hoxton Plaza on Wednesday the 2nd of October, with Ambassadeurs in support. Tickets are £7 from here, fb event page here and the flyer is down below. Before the flyer you can see a list of current other confirmed dates (including my first gigs in Australia and Northern Ireland!).

Fri 27th Sept – Halles-St-Géry, Brussels (Belgium)
Sat 28th Sept (DJ) – MAC, Belfast (Northern Ireland)
Wed 2nd Oct – Hoxton Bar and Grill, London
Sat 5th Oct – roBOt festival, Bologna (Italy)
Fri 11th Oct – Prague (Czech Republic)
Sat 19th Oct – ADE @ OT301, Amsterdam (Holland)
Fri 8th Nov – Festival Musiques Volantes, Nancy (France)
Sat 9th Nov – Rewire festival, The Hague (Holland)
Thur 14th Nov – The Kongress, Munich (Germany)
Fri 6th Dec – Subsonic Music Festival (Australia)
Sat 7th Dec – Slanted & Enchanted Festival (Australia)

New LP is out now on all formats – vinyl, CD and digital.

Grab the digital from itunes, all formats from Bleep, or copies while they last from my own Bandcamp. Also available through all the other usual outlets.

“Fourth: The Golden Eagle is an epiphany of sound …his most impressive work to date.” – The 405

“His fourth and best album” – DMC Update Magazine

“…a very special album.” – Juno Plus

“the most distinctive outings of his career.” – XLR8R

“…full of life and flush with colour.” – FACT

“deliciously bug-eyed.” – Clash Magazine

“Love it love it!! brilliant work, will be playing at home and in the clubs!”
- Appleblim (Rinse FM, Apple Pips)

“Totally lush – even more alive, organic and twisted than before – the production is crazy. Big fan.”
- Lone (R&S, Warp)

“Brilliant work” – Laurent Garnier

And I have a launch party in London this Friday, I’ll be playing live with drummer Chris Walmsley and it’s a double header gig with the fantastic Shigeto, who is also playing live with drums!

If London is too far, here’s some more:

Friday 14th June – LP RELEASE PARTY W/ SHIGETO, London
Saturday 6th July – Flacon, the Cube, Moscow (Russia)
Friday 12th July (DJ) – Mojo Club, Hamburg (Germany)
Saturday 20th July – Soundwave Festival, Tisno (Croatia)
Sunday 21st July – Soundwave Festival, Tisno (Croatia)
Friday 9th August – Lethargy Festival, Zurich (Switzerland)
Friday 27th Sept – Halles-St-Géry, Brussels (Belgium)
Friday 8th Nov – Festival Musiques Volantes, Nancy (France)
Saturday 9th Nov – Rewire festival, The Hague (Holland)

Slightly late to post this on here, but I really like this video that Diagram Design made for the last single ‘Beaks of Eagles’. Diagram Design are a Tokyo based design and video production house established in 2006, notably known in the music world for their fantastic official videos for Goth Trad’s ‘Cut End’ on Deep Medi, plus Teebs & Jackhigh’s ‘Rains’ on Svetlana Indsutries. They specialise in an organic style of highly syncopated animation, sometimes mixed with live action footage. This video for ‘Beaks of Eagles’ follows the psychedelic flight of an origami eagle across beautiful sunset skies before it bursts into multitudinous fragments of colour.

KELPE – Beaks of Eagles (Official Video by Diagram Design) from Drut on Vimeo.

That single is available digitally from Bandcamp, complete with a Fulgeance remix (see below).

The LP is out tomorrow, here is the Bandcamp page for buying digital or CD, for vinyl head to Juno.

And here’s the live dates for the coming months:

Friday 14th June – LP RELEASE PARTY W/ SHIGETO, London
Saturday 6th July – Flacon, the Cube, Moscow (Russia)
Saturday 20th July – Soundwave Festival, Tisno (Croatia)
Sunday 21st July – Soundwave Festival, Tisno (Croatia)
Friday 2nd August – Peckham Palais, London
Friday 9th August – Lethargy Festival, Zurich (Switzerland)
Friday 8th Nov – Festival Musiques Volantes, Nancy (France)
Saturday 9th Nov – Rewire festival, The Hague (Holland)

Releasing a second single taken from the LP on Monday. It’s called ‘Beaks of Eagles’ and has a remix from my old pal Fulgeance. Check the snippets below:

Check these two new videos below from the upcoming LP. All in full HD. Firstly ‘Outwhere’ directed by Paul ‘Gash’ Southgate:

And then ‘Single Stripe’ by Graphic Surgery and Mookx. This is a slightly edited down version of the track compared to what will appear on the LP.

“The video for ‘Single Stripe’ was created by Graphic Surgery and mookx, visual artists from the Netherlands, using custom made software programmed by Johan Holwerda. It was made using a realtime controllable representation of the track in the form of a graphical oscillator, programmed in C# using technologies normally used to make shader effects for computer games. Every sound of the track is visually represented using the oscillator to perform live visual jam sessions on the track, which were then re-edited by mookx.”

Hi again,

It’s been a while since my last update, so quite a bit to rush through…

The main news is I’ve started a record label (DRUT) to release my new LP ‘Fourth: The Golden Eagle’ and lead single ‘Answered’. The single is out now on vinyl and digital and the LP is to be released on the 3rd of June. Click the image below to buy the digital release direct from me on bandcamp, or for the vinyl head to Phonica.

Jonathan Lieb directed this rather lavish video for the track featuring a girl becoming obsessed with searching for jigsaw puzzle pieces in snowy Denmark. Vice’s music channel Noisey premiered the video:

And last week Clashmusic released a new DJ mix from myself which includes ‘Answered’ and tons of new and unreleased music from eLan, Mr Beatnick, Mieux and lots more. CLICK HERE TO GO AND DOWNLOAD FROM CLASH. Or stream below.

Then, there’s a couple of free remixes of the Answered single, by Microburst (via XLR8R) and Fuewa (via Sonic Router) – see below for streams.