KEEPSAKES 黑胶唱片和CD

Review: New Zealand-based producer Keepsakes follows his appearance on a split Oaks 12" back in July 2023 with his first full release since early 2022, also his first EP for the label. "Definitely stepping into some new territory on this one," he told us, "with some tracks that are a bit on the funkier side and even a bit of euphoria too alongside the harder stuff I've usually been known for." The five tracks here are hard but definitely blessed with a muscular grooviness, the likes of 'Dog Anonymous Fluid', 'Funk The Influence' and 'Egotistic Horn' all tempering the robotic machinefunk with sampled up, tactile human voices. The latter of those three is our favourite of the five, the theoretical answer to the question 'what would Yello have sounded like if they'd recorded for Underground Resistance?' Definitely a Keeper.