Before it becomes a distant memory I just wanted to give a shout out about the SATTA Outside Festival that went on in Lithuania in the middle of August this year. It’s the second time I’ve played at the festival and I’ve also played at SATTA Inside in Vilnius. The first time I played I wasn’t able to take my drummer as he broke his foot playing table tennis, but this time he was able to come along to play. The festival had pretty much tripled in size (in a good way) since I played there in 2009, and we played to a packed out open air arena (an ex communist lecture theatre) to 2500 enthusiastic Lithuanians. Below is a couple pics of our show and a clip I filmed of Gaslamp Killer playing on the same stage. Also on the line-up amongst others was Mike Slott, Machinedrum, Paul White & Mo Kolours, Brokenchord, dEbruit, 100names, fLako, Robot Koch, Ghostpoet, Loops Haunt, Young Montana?, Montgomery Clunk and loads more. To conclude, its well worth making the journey to get this festival; if you’re into that kind of music it’s really one of a kind.

This Channel 4 promo for “Stephen Fry’s 100 Greatest Gadgets” features Kelpe track “No Film”, from the Margins EP on Black Acre last year.

Stephen Fry’s 100 Greatest Gadgets Channel 4 Promo from Kel McKeown on Vimeo.

Here’s a stream of the full track:

No Film (From “Margins EP”) by Kelpe

Due to business (I mean, being busy, not “the bizness”) and crazy times in London a couple of things have slipped by that I’ve failed to update about on here. First, the 7″ single with Nino remix is out now on vinyl and download, you can grab it here from Boomkat. No need for another screen grab of the cover art, you can see that in a post below.

Secondly, I submitted a track for Project Mooncircle’s “Finest Ego UK / Ireland” Compilation. This might be old news to a lot of you as it’s been out for a couple weeks but the comp is well worth getting if you haven’t done so yet. A strong collection of 26 beats and electronic instrumentals compiled by Laurent Fintoni, it features Danny Drive Thru, Huess, Mr Beatnick, Om Unit x ARP101, fLako and a lot more. Below is my track “Beat Imperial” and click the pic below that to go through to the Bandcamp page.

Beat Imperial by Kelpe

My first ever 7″ single is currently at the pressing plant and will be released next month on Coco Bryce’s label MYOR (who have previously released records from Slugabed, KRSUR, Slow Hand Motem and Coco Bryce himself). Until the July release, you’ll just have to watch this little video for it.

The 7″ and digital download both come with an excellent remix by Spanish skwee daddy Niño (fresh from opening Sonar 2011 and a big release on the Donky Pitch label). You can here snippets of both tracks over at Coco Bryce’s blog, 20 Shot Sequence or in his Soundcloud stream below. Artwork by Studio Flying Colours.

Kelpe – Same New Era – Snippets by cocobrycebeats

And for what it’s worth, here’s Soundcloud stream of the full title track, without the silly video:

Same New Era by Kelpe

Tom Ravenscroft asked me to do a guest mix for his BBC 6 Music show and I happily obliged, turning in a self indulgent 21 minute mix of all my own material including my remix of Seeland, and also Slugabed + Huess remixes of myself. The show was aired on 18/03/11 but now you can download or stream from my soundcloud:

Tom Ravenscroft Guestmix (FREE DL) by Kelpe

Look at the line-up for the above gig Now Wave are putting on at the Apollo!

Tickets are out now with the usual outlets, apparrently ticketmaster is the cheapest in this case and clicking the photo will take you there.

And here’s some more recently confirmed shows:

19 March – Elevate, Graz, Austria w/ Machine Drum
25 March – Le Cave aux Poetes, Lille (France)
26 March – Le Clascon, Lyon (France)
01 April – Ether Festival, South Bank Centre, London w/ Architeq
08 April – Bios, Athens (Greece)
16 April – XOYO, London w/ Ghostpoet, Lukid, Kutmah
24 April – Pacrock Festival, Pont-à-Celles, (Belgium) w/ Pivot, Action Beat
02 June – Oddstream Festival, (Netherlands) w/ Ceephax, Coco Bryce, Richard Devine, Shigeto
04 June – Manchester Apollo, w/ Battles, Caribou, Actress, Illumsphere
17 Sept – Phono Festival, Odense, (Denmark)

My EP on Black Acre “Margins” released last October entered Bleeps Top 10 EPs of 2010, and sold out at the end of 2010. If you missed it, don’t worry as it’s been re-pressed on tasty yellow translucent vinyl, and copies of this limited new pressing have arrived. You can order a copy over at Boomkat.

First gig of the year coming up this weekend, at a great looking party put on by Musique Large crew – featuring Fulgeance, Baron Retif + Concepcion Perez, Rekick, etc! We’ll be on stage at 1am and the venue address is:

Cafe Julien
39 cours Julien
13006 Marseille
France