Help Us Lose Our Minds (Larry Ketang) crafting rich, genre-blurring soundscapes of progressive, psychedelic and experimental electronica, house and techno that focuses on the long form, blending one piece into the next to create a continuous emotive piece.
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Slow Jams For The End Of The World
”This is lying in bed and losing your mind. The wrong side of 4am. Again.
Lost in the shadows before the sun, deep in the small hours,
full of ghosts and memories and voices that will not hold their tongue.
This is a dreamy exploration in layered synths and hypnotic funk beats. A sultry temptress, a killer in the sheets.
Treading a fine line between melancholy and bliss. It’s slinky and propulsive, an all-consuming kiss.
This is tossing and turning and burning with restless thoughts and broken dreams.
A pathos-laden ode to the elusive lady sleep.
This is being tasered to death by the mere thought of her breath on your neck.
This is a mixtape of heartache on a dusty old cassette.
It’s fluid, and evolving.
It’s an exercise in polyphonics and repetition. Sweaty, flickering, and seductively hot.
This is Slow Jams for The End of The World.
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THE CENTRE CANNOT HOLD
Long-term inmates in the pop prison, Larry Ketang & Matt Wilson, continue to peel up the bottom corner of their tattered Talking Heads poster and chip away at the wall of sound. Help yourself to the nuggets. See you on the other side.
ALBUM: The Beginning of The End of The Beginning
‘Emerging from the paranoid fog of their second album and into the fractured reality of 2020, TCCH wade into the murky waters of Life™️, armed with the gift of lazer guided cross-border telepathy and a renewed hope for something better.
Larry Ketang & Matt Wilson rise from this period of intense reflection in their hot-boxed isolation bubbles with the answer to life’s big questions, set to a score of skittering syncopation, deftly manipulated arpeggios and a crack team of restless spirits on vocals.
Guess what?
There is no answer.
But that’s OK.
Baby, we’re just human.
And this is The Beginning of The End of The Beginning.’
ALBUM: Songs for sabrina
Inspired by the creeping dread of Nick Drnaso’s masterpiece Sabrina, TCCH reach deep into the horror-show of hyper-connectivity and misinformation that is life in 2020 and attempt to locate something human at the centre of it all.
This EP was inspired by, and based on, the incredible graphic novel Sabrina by Nick Drnaso, You should seek it out, read it, and be in awe.
ALBUM: Rabbit
The Centre Cannot Hold go in hard with an audiovisual tribute to John Updike’s peerless Rabbit tetralogy. Unafraid to fly directly in the face of common sense and the rapidly diminishing global attention span, the shadowy duo have soaked up and distilled the original’s 4 book/463,295 word dissection of the limits of the American Dream into a potent 4 part/32 minute trip through the United States, utilising previously unseen footage of the deathbed visions of both Rabbit Angstrom and the ‘Dike himself.
Kicking off with an idyllic, finger pickin’ acoustic opening, ZIF evoke the idealism of late 50s America and our hero’s noble desire to do a runner and leave his son and pregnant wife in the lurch, before things fall apart and we’re chucked headfirst into the lysergic overload of both Harry and the song’s midlife crisis.
Fortunately, what goes down, must come up and our heroes have soon clawed their way out of the abyss on a wave of brass, detuned synths and fistfuls of filthy dollars. Things come full circle in the home stretch as we whisper a sweet, sweet goodbye to the rampant excesses of Reagan’s America, Harry’s overstretched heart, and the beautiful folly of a half hour eulogy to A/The Great American Novel.
RIYL: Can, The Beta Band, Boards of Canada; pretending you’ve read books you haven’t read; pretending you’ve watched things all the way to the end that you only watched about a quarter of; proving you’re superior to everyone younger than you because you can concentrate on one thing for more than 30 minutes at a time; Buy One Get Three Free Deals.
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LINES
Lines were Manchester-based, multi-instrumentalists: Larry Ketang and Matt Wilson and have been self producing since 2009. Influences range from artists such as Modeselektor, Apparat, James Holden to Spiritualised, The Beta Band, Animal Collective and Portishead.
Lines feat Kat Cook
Lines & Lines & Lines & Lines....
NOUNS
Nouns. A Collective Project featuring a range of Manchester-based artists, vocalists and musicians.
Produced by Larry Ketang circa 2012
Nouns 3 E.P.'s
Tracks feature on the 3 EP’s by Nouns. Released on Weirdos Are Heroes in 2012