Adding a percussive and experimental edge to the current class of post-dubstep pioneers, Mount Kimbie - made up of Dominic Maker and Kai Campos - are set to release their much anticipated debut album ‘Crooks & Lovers’ on Scuba’s label, Hotflush in July.
Mount Kimbie’s first two EPs – ‘Maybes’ and ‘Sketch On Glass’ - seemed like explorations of spaces so private that all within earshot were turned instantly into voyeurs. The experience was less like listening to music and more like eavesdropping on the machinations of a lone mind – albeit a lone mind surrounded by and retreating from millions of other minds.
Difficult to categorise, the lush EPs caused a commotion when released last year with ‘Sketch On Glass’ recently undergoing reworks from the likes of Falty DL, SCB (the darker techno alias of Scuba), and their sometime collaborator James Blake. With their own remixes (Foals and The xx) becoming hot property on the blogosphere, Mount Kimbie have been a core part of the growing electronic music scene in London so often associated with labels like Hyperdub & Hemlock.
Dom & Kai met whilst at Southbank University, pushed together in student halls which used to be an old mental asylum - the ceilings were still ridiculously high to stop patients hanging themselves: “a cold, joyless, concrete building – the sort of building where you’d drop a pen and the sound would just go on and on in an echo.”
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