Artist: Kenny Larkin
Genre(s):
Techno
Discography:
Loop 2
Year: 1995
Tracks: 4
Third Wave techno artist Kenny Larkin is the penis of a newfangled school of Detroit-based musicians taking the city's illustrious trade name of hard-edged melodious futurism into new and modern areas. Although he missed out on the style's formative years in the mid to recent '80s due to a stint in the military, Larkin, a Detroit aboriginal, was brought up to hurrying upon his take back by the likes of Juan Atkins and Derrick May, the latter of whose weekly radiocommunication shows divine Larkin to pursue music yield. Heavily frozen in house, Larkin quickly incorporated techno's formal characteristics into a brazen-yet-refined style that places his medicine somewhere in betwixt Detroit and Chicago, combine house's more swinging rhythmic vibe and soft edge with techno's hefty backbeat and experimental zeal. He released a couple of 12-inches -- "We Shall Overcome" and "Integration" -- on the Richie Hawtin/John Acquaviva label Plus 8 in the early '90s before moving on to tone ending material through Buzz, Warp, and R&S. Massively influential on British and German, as well as American strains of techno, his tracks have appeared on a number of celebrated compilations documenting new-school Detroit talent. His exposure abroad has also translated, as with a number of Detroit originals such as Jeff Mills and Carl Craig, into a grade of European success far surpassing that at home. Somewhat suprisingly, he took several age off from production act in the late '90s and early 2000s to focus on his alternate life history as a standup mirthful. Though he continued to DJ during this period, it wasn't until 2004 that he released new material for England's Peacefrog tag. [Escort also: Dark Comedy]
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