D.C.

KEY17 RECORDS is delighted to announce the release of D.C.'s brand new single titled "The King Of Everything".

"The King Of Everything" is one of many songs written and recorded over a productive 18-month period and serves as a taster of what to expect of his upcoming new album due for release in 2024.

This limited edition digi-release includes an exclusive improvised instrumental piece titled "The Queen's Tarts", recorded in the last month.

"The King Of Everything" is available now for a limited time on Bandcamp. Details on the upcoming new album will follow soon.

https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/the-king-of-everything

Buried Leaves/Never Fall Down was released on this day thirteen years ago.

The two track EP was recorded days following news and coverage of the 9 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that hit the North East coast of Japan. Buried Leaves was composed back in 2004 and recorded especially for the EP and features on the 2014 Leftovers album.

Darker Than Black was released on this day fourteen years ago.

This was the first single to promote and feature on D.C.'s 2011 album Love Lights & Glittering Prizes.

Open Doors was released on this day five years ago.

Originally demoed back in 2009, shelved, then recorded ten years later, this was a work-in-progress taster of new music and would feature on D.C.'s 2020 album Heritage.

KEY17 RECORDS is delighted to announce the release of D.C.'s brand new single titled "Rivers Of Silver".

"Rivers Of Silver" is one of many songs written and recorded over a productive 18-month period and serves as a taster ofwhat to expect of his upcoming new album due in 2024.

This limited edition digi-release includes an exclusive improvised instrumental piece titled "Wrapped In Picasso Blue", recorded in the last month.

Wishing a very happy birthday to Eleftheria Kioumourtzidou, who provided the wonderful and distinctive artwork drawings for Leftovers Vol 2 (2020) and Outclassed (2022) ❤️

Summer Breakdown, the fifth studio album, was released on this day eleven years ago.

A wide range of styles run through the album from dubstep and hip-hop to the soundscapes of urban and Eastern culture.

Buy/stream
https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/summer-breakdown

Charades, the eighth studio album, was released on this day three years ago.

Taking up the challenge to record anything and everything during the four week lockdown of November 2020, what resulted was a snapshot of life during COVID lockdowns and isolation, now regarded as one of D.C.'s favourite albums recorded.

Buy/stream
https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/charades

Very first music gig attended was the great Del Amitri wonderful memories for me and my two big bros

Gossip For Girls was released on this day thirteen years ago.

This was the second single released to be featured on the 2011 album Love, Lights & Glittering Prizes

Self-Titled, the debut studio album, was released on this day seventeen years ago.

The debut album showcased D.C.'s broad and diverse musical palette.

Buy/stream https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled

D.C.@15, the fifteenth anniversary of Self-Titled, was released on this day two years ago.

For the D.C.@15 package selected album tracks were re-recorded along with a selection of previously unheard tracks from the original album sessions.

Buy/stream
https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/d-c-15

Love, Lights & Glittering Prizes, the fourth studio album, was released on this day twelve years ago.

Considered to be one of his all-time favourite albums recorded, each song was treated as a project giving them a unique identity and approach to recording in different parameters and rules.

The abstract album artwork was hand drawn by Scott E Cooper's eldest daughter.

Buy/stream https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/love-lights-and-glitterimg-prizes

Sortie was released on this day five years ago.

This was a work-in-progress taster of new music and would feature on D.C.'s 2020 album Heritage.

D.C. comments -

The origins of this piece stretch back to 2004 and was inspired after every booze cruise day-trip visit to Calais and the journeys through the Channel Tunnel. The single version is different to the final album recording which had a four on the floor drum beat, which was accidentally left out of the mix but happy with it as it turned out in the end.

Heritage, the seventh studio album, was released on this day three years ago.

Now considered his comeback album after five years of silence and released in the midst of the COVID pandemic, it is a acknowledgement of the past while moving forward into a unknowingly future.

Buy/stream https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/heritage

Lizard, the sixth studio album, was released on this day eight years ago.

Inspired by holidays in South West Cornwall, this labour of love is one of D.C.'s most cherished records.

Buy/stream https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/lizard

Leftovers, the first collection of outtakes, was released on this day ten years ago.

This was the first release in the ongoing Leftovers series collecting outtakes, unheard songs and instrumentals from the first five album eras.

Buy/stream 👇 https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/leftovers

In Time Where We Stand, the third studio album, was released on this day fourteen years ago.

This was the first album to feature songs written and sung by D.C. for the first time and presents a organic range of sounds.

Buy/stream https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/in-time-where-we-stand

Here we go again. Raring to get going...

On this day in 2008 saw the release of the second album, cybercrime, a conceptual body of work highlighting the pros and cons of modern computer and mobile technology.

"Shredder" was released as a limited edition CD single prior to the release of the album.

Also on this day in 2013 saw the release of the EP, cybercrime reboot, consisting of reworked songs from the original album as well as a few new pieces written especially for the EP.

D.C. reflects -

"Being my second album, it was going to be a challenge but was more than just the 'second album syndrome'. I was trying to find a new way of recording following my first album which was all sequenced onto my synthesizer workstation. Most of 2007 into 2008 was spent with Cubasis and a multitrack recorder but lacked a method. Eventually I was putting down all sorts of sounds, taking a very Kraftwerk-esque style to the modern subject matters in songs such as "www", "bb" and "Identity", the latter a protest to the National Identity Card system of the time."

"Musically I had listened a lot to Recoil and was inspired by the unconventional approach to musical structures. This would prove very helpful to finishing this record.
I even sent a work-in-progress demo CD to Alan himself and he was very complimentary in my musical endeavours."

"In retrospect I have mixed feelings the idea of the reboot in 2013 as I feel was unnecessary to repeat the conceptual changes in a short gap of five years.However I look back at the whole era of cybercrime as a creatively exciting time and a record of importance helping me establish my musical foundation moving forward."

DC
23/06/23

Buy cybercrime reboot
https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/cybercrime-reboot-ep

Buy cybercrime
https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/cybercrime

Outclassed, the ninth studio album, was released on this day a year ago.

What are your favourite songs from the album?

Buy/stream https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/outclassed

Wise words 🙏

This morning at the dump I was reminded of the truth! Deep thanks to Bob, The Wailers, Lee Scratch and Redbridge recycling!

While on holiday in Kent I took the time to listen to the debut solo album by Jack Hues (a fan since Strictly Inc) If you love listening to an album from start to finish and time is no limit this is for you. Thanks Jack for the CD and signed card 👍

WINDOWPAINTING
BRAND NEW ALBUM BY D.C.

KEY17 Records is delighted to announce the release of Windowpainting, the brand new album by D.C. The two-track instrumental album, clocking under thirty minutes, soundtracks the famous children's story of The Piped Piper Of Hamelin.

D.C. comments -

This project has been years in the making, elements composed back in early 2021, up to the end of 2022, and finally recorded in the first quarter of this year. To make things radical I use a limited palette of sounds and restrict to one synth module, a technique inspired by Anthony Phillips's album 1984. This is also the first album where everything has been sequenced with MIDI connections from synths and keyboard into laptop.

Windowpainting is available today on Bandcamp

https://dcmusicuk.bandcamp.com/album/windowpainting

Many happy returns to one of my musical heroes 🎹

Happy Birthday, Tony. Here’s to you!