This guy really started to click for me in the last few years and I love how he makes a genre that i always felt a bit bleepy/bloopy and aimless when I was younger, sound so organic and like nature is a big theme running through it. He’s opened my eyes to a whole genre, really.
Regret not seeing him live properly. Saw him briefly at a festival once many years ago. It wasn’t a genre I was into then but it sounded huge and it definitely sparked my interest and gradually over the years he’s become an absolute favourite.
Getting a bit more hit and miss as he gets older but always still check out what he’s doing with a degree of excitement. So much of his older stuff is essential listening and was very formative for me. Has to be a 5
Clue is in the name I think for the score. I’m a fan of his in general but don’t think any of the albums are quite in my top tier. Will listen over a few releases again today in case I could persuade myself to turn it up to 5.
Best single is probably this which he put out as KH for some reason:
5/5 seems to understand music at some level more than most just listen to the new Madlib LP and how that has been arranged. Best single is this absolute banger he released under KH
Also his remix of Eric Prydz that Marco Plex played is never not funny
I’d probably give him a 4/5 for his LPs, mainly as he’s struggled to make an album that really captivates me since There’s Love in You. But at the same time, has released loads of great singles, remixes, side projects productions. And as an all around good egg, influence on the scene, DJ, selector, producer, icon etc. he’s a 5/5.
Some of his bangeriest club tracks are under the KH moniker
I think for those not quite old enough to get AFX/Autechre et al on the first go round, he filled that role and was incredibly formative. I think every generation of music listener needs one of those records where you just find yourself muttering how on earth did they even make this sound??
That’s Rounds, for me.
Watching him absolutely pogo around the dancefloor to The Field at ATP is one of the most joyous memories of my festival experiences.
A high 4, which I’ll probably bump to a 5 before the end.
Big 5. Pause and the Rounds came along at a point for me when I was listening to a lot of electronic stuff and they both hit pretty hard. Really struggle to call best album between those, There Is Love In You and New Energy. I’d sort of drifted away from him so New Energy was a bit of surprise, like oh yeah, this guy’s great! SW9 9SL bangs. He seems like a nice fella too.
I think if I’d heard him at a different time I’d probably be really into him, but I got into electronic music through mixes and clubs rather than albums, so by the time I did listen to him properly it all felt a bit bland and middle of the road compared to what I’d already heard elsewhere. Saw him live once at Primavera and he was really dull.
Much like Caribou/Daphni I think I find him more compelling as a DJ than a producer. A lot of people I respect really rate him and overall he’s clearly a very positive influence on the scene. Generous 3. Also this is a banger.
he’s an easy 5, I think his scattergun approach to releases can give the impression of inconsistency but he’s built up an incredible catalogue over the last 20 years
I paid him quite a bit of attention early on because of the Fridge connection, but since I’ve only dipped in and out over the years. I’ll enjoy one of this records if I put it on, but he’s a long way from a go to artist for me. File under pleasant but inessential. It’ll be between Rounds and New Energy for the poll, they’re the only two I ever really go back to. 3.
It’s a 5 from me. Rounds and Pause are both brilliant records and were pretty important in shaping and influencing my taste. Saw him in Bristol twice, both really good, particularly the first time, with Explosions In The Sky at the Trinity. Not really kept up with much after Everything Ecstatic but still come back to Pause and Rounds so often that it’s an easy 5.
Not his own music but do want to big up the massive playlist he’s curated on Spotify, could do a lot of worse than this on shuffle when you have no idea what you want to listen to.
