Re: (313) Exited, you bet!

2008-05-05 Thread Jeffrey Richards 
I haven't read the whole thread, but there are samples
up on Neuton...sounds pretty good to me.  

I really didn't like Kenny's stuff on Peacefrog all
that much, so having something I can get behind again
is great.  

Also nice to see that Planet E is ramping up full
releases again.  The whole PE Classics thing is just
annoying to me.  Just get some new stuff out, there is
a ton of quality in the techno world right now...

Jeff

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> New Kenny Larkin coming before the end of the month!
>  On Planet E
> too!(hands up who hasn't bought many of the recent
> Planet E
> releases  Yeah, thought so!)
> 
> PLE65300-1
>


  

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Re: (313) Exited, you bet!

2008-05-02 Thread Tristan Watkins 
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KENNY LARKIN
Planet E, Art of Dance, USA
www.myspace.com/kennylarkin <http://www.myspace.com/kennylarkin>

NEW ALBUM KEYS, STRINGS, TAMBOURINES
*PLANET E Communications*
*CD/Digital *



Well, I for one am most exited. Not sure where I'm leaving though. ;)

Any word on whether or not there'll be wax?

I got well jealous reading about him making some of the tracks in C2's 
studio, where you know those bass bins have got to be ridiculous. I want to 
have a go!


Tristan
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Re: (313) Exited, you bet!

2008-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


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===

KENNY LARKIN
Planet E, Art of Dance, USA
www.myspace.com/kennylarkin 

NEW ALBUM KEYS, STRINGS, TAMBOURINES
*PLANET E Communications*
*CD/Digital *
*Release Date : July 1st 2008*

It's been a few years since Carl Craig's Detroit based independent label 
Planet E Communications has released an artist full-length and Craig 
hasn't chosen just any album for his label's return to releasing full 
lengths. This is a very special record from his fellow Detroiter, former 
neighbor and long-term close friend Kenny Larkin who also happens to be 
one of the most original producers to emerge from Detroit.


Kenny Larkin's last album "Funkfaker" was released in France in 2004. 
Dropped under his Dark Comedy moniker it was much more of a deep 
exploration into a new kind of funk. It was a step away from his 
electronic roots, and a more experimental work when considered in the 
body of his musical work. “Keys, Strings and Tambourines” however goes 
back to where Larkin started - back to his days as a youngster going to 
The Shelter and Music Institute in Detroit. "Inspiration for this album 
simply came from the love of electronic music" says Kenny.


What's clear is that the playfully titled “Keys, Strings and 
Tambourines” just also happens to in the creators own words - "my most 
dance floor oriented album to date." This makes great sense right now. 
In terms of electronic music we are at a crossroads where people feel 
the need either to go Pop or feed the dance floor. Larkin manages to do 
the latter with fine skill but in typical Larkin and Planet E style this 
is no ordinary simple dance floor album.


Take the first single from the album "You Are" which is based in part on 
the phenomena of "The Secret" - Kenny's vocal here is something that 
wouldn't have been featured on earlier Larkin albums prior to 
"Funkfaker." It's a track that sees him expanding beyond the dance floor 
into some kind of new twisted song territory that most definitively 
isn't pop - it's electronic, it's Detroit, it's twisted. Perhaps he's 
just taking in his now very Los Angeles lifestyle (he moved there in the 
early '00s) which sees him hiking the Hollywood hills and spending his 
non-music time doing stand-up comedy and learning how to act in and 
shoot independent films and productions of his own and others. In April 
2008, he helped produce, shoot, and act in a TV sitcom pilot also 
featuring Hollywood bad boy actor Tom Sizemore.


“Keys, Strings and Tambourines” does reflects Larkin’s cinematic 
interest. It's a record with a sense of drama - pounding pulsations of 
dramatic energy inform many of the tracks. This is Techno with a pulse 
and heart that reminds us again that many of the best ideas in 
electronic music started right here in America and that America is still 
producing top-level material. Techno isn’t, as some would have you 
believe, only still alive and creative in Germany.


Larkin's favorite track on the album is a prime example - called "Glob 
Glob" Kenny says "I wrote it on my last tour in Australia in a hotel in 
Sydney – a very nice mental place to write music, and that song came 
out. I love it. Usually when an artist picks a favorite, it goes over 
most people's heads. I don't know why .. I associate a lot of good 
things with writing that song in Sydney, probably due to the success of 
the tour itself." Simply put the track is simply one highlight on an 
album full of them. “Keys, Strings and Tambourines” isn't the kind of 
record that it's easy to pull favorites from. It works as a total work.


Discussing the rest of the album, which includes an upcoming bumping 
second single "Bass Mode" Kenny reveals that "The majority of the album 
was written at my home in LA, but I flew to Detroit a few times to work 
in Carl's studio which did wonders for my inspiration. Nothing can top 
the type of inspiration I get from being in a proper studio environment 
in Detroit. I stayed in Carl's studio and worked for days!." Perhaps 
it's the massive club like bass bins in that Detroit studio that 
impacted the bass feeling on the record, or maybe it was just that Kenny 
was back home in the D. The town that gave him an award in 1995 as "Best 
Techno Artist."


Maybe it's just that he was away from his usual LA distractions, which 
include regular slots as a stand-up comedian. He says that he now spends 
around 40% of his time on comedy and other acting interests In LA. The 
other 60% is spend working on music and traveling. Right now he's also 
busy developing a new live show for a tour of Europe this summer. Does 
he consider himself a comedian who makes music or a musician who does 
comedy? " I would like to be considered as both equally." So don't be 
surprised if you see this Techno man on your TV soon.


Larkin prefers working on "proper synthesizers," and "mixing on a mixing 
desk with proper outboard gear." You

Re: (313) Exited, you bet!

2008-05-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] 


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===

KENNY LARKIN
Planet E, Art of Dance, USA
www.myspace.com/kennylarkin 

NEW ALBUM KEYS, STRINGS, TAMBOURINES
*PLANET E Communications*
*CD/Digital *
*Release Date : July 1st 2008*

It's been a few years since Carl Craig's Detroit based independent label 
Planet E Communications has released an artist full-length and Craig 
hasn't chosen just any album for his label's return to releasing full 
lengths. This is a very special record from his fellow Detroiter, former 
neighbor and long-term close friend Kenny Larkin who also happens to be 
one of the most original producers to emerge from Detroit.


Kenny Larkin's last album "Funkfaker" was released in France in 2004. 
Dropped under his Dark Comedy moniker it was much more of a deep 
exploration into a new kind of funk. It was a step away from his 
electronic roots, and a more experimental work when considered in the 
body of his musical work. “Keys, Strings and Tambourines” however goes 
back to where Larkin started - back to his days as a youngster going to 
The Shelter and Music Institute in Detroit. "Inspiration for this album 
simply came from the love of electronic music" says Kenny.


What's clear is that the playfully titled “Keys, Strings and 
Tambourines” just also happens to in the creators own words - "my most 
dance floor oriented album to date." This makes great sense right now. 
In terms of electronic music we are at a crossroads where people feel 
the need either to go Pop or feed the dance floor. Larkin manages to do 
the latter with fine skill but in typical Larkin and Planet E style this 
is no ordinary simple dance floor album.


Take the first single from the album "You Are" which is based in part on 
the phenomena of "The Secret" - Kenny's vocal here is something that 
wouldn't have been featured on earlier Larkin albums prior to 
"Funkfaker." It's a track that sees him expanding beyond the dance floor 
into some kind of new twisted song territory that most definitively 
isn't pop - it's electronic, it's Detroit, it's twisted. Perhaps he's 
just taking in his now very Los Angeles lifestyle (he moved there in the 
early '00s) which sees him hiking the Hollywood hills and spending his 
non-music time doing stand-up comedy and learning how to act in and 
shoot independent films and productions of his own and others. In April 
2008, he helped produce, shoot, and act in a TV sitcom pilot also 
featuring Hollywood bad boy actor Tom Sizemore.


“Keys, Strings and Tambourines” does reflects Larkin’s cinematic 
interest. It's a record with a sense of drama - pounding pulsations of 
dramatic energy inform many of the tracks. This is Techno with a pulse 
and heart that reminds us again that many of the best ideas in 
electronic music started right here in America and that America is still 
producing top-level material. Techno isn’t, as some would have you 
believe, only still alive and creative in Germany.


Larkin's favorite track on the album is a prime example - called "Glob 
Glob" Kenny says "I wrote it on my last tour in Australia in a hotel in 
Sydney – a very nice mental place to write music, and that song came 
out. I love it. Usually when an artist picks a favorite, it goes over 
most people's heads. I don't know why .. I associate a lot of good 
things with writing that song in Sydney, probably due to the success of 
the tour itself." Simply put the track is simply one highlight on an 
album full of them. “Keys, Strings and Tambourines” isn't the kind of 
record that it's easy to pull favorites from. It works as a total work.


Discussing the rest of the album, which includes an upcoming bumping 
second single "Bass Mode" Kenny reveals that "The majority of the album 
was written at my home in LA, but I flew to Detroit a few times to work 
in Carl's studio which did wonders for my inspiration. Nothing can top 
the type of inspiration I get from being in a proper studio environment 
in Detroit. I stayed in Carl's studio and worked for days!." Perhaps 
it's the massive club like bass bins in that Detroit studio that 
impacted the bass feeling on the record, or maybe it was just that Kenny 
was back home in the D. The town that gave him an award in 1995 as "Best 
Techno Artist."


Maybe it's just that he was away from his usual LA distractions, which 
include regular slots as a stand-up comedian. He says that he now spends 
around 40% of his time on comedy and other acting interests In LA. The 
other 60% is spend working on music and traveling. Right now he's also 
busy developing a new live show for a tour of Europe this summer. Does 
he consider himself a comedian who makes music or a musician who does 
comedy? " I would like to be considered as both equally." So don't be 
surprised if you see this Techno man on your TV soon.


Larkin prefers working on "proper synthesizers," and "mixing on a mixing 
desk with proper outboard gear." You

(313) Exited, you bet!

2008-05-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
New Kenny Larkin coming before the end of the month!  On Planet E
too!(hands up who hasn't bought many of the recent Planet E
releases  Yeah, thought so!)

PLE65300-1

 Artist: Kenny Larkin
 Side A:

 1.You are(Original Mix)
 2. You are...dark

 All tracks, written and produced by Kenny Larkin
 From the forthcoming album "Keys, Strings, Tambourines"

 Side B:
 1. Bassmode (12 inch mix)

 Mix: Carl Craig for Planet E Communications, Inc
 Engineered by Collin Dupuis
 All tracks, written and produced by Kenny Larkin
 From the forthcoming album "Keys, Strings, Tambourines"