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Keepsakes, the alias of British-New Zealand producer and DJ James Barrett, has been a strong and distinctive voice in techno since rising to fame through his Stygian Concrete Works and Weapons Grade Manic EPs back in 2014. Since then he has showcased his powerful and menacing, yet often cheeky and playful, productions on influential labels including HAVEN, South London Analogue Material, Perc Trax, MORD, and Mindcut.

He told us what inspired him to record this podcast for us and how his pandemic yea worked out so far:
"The past year has been a very challenging time for the entire international techno scene, but out of this situation a lot of amazing music has been made - this mix is very much a tribute to that. It's mostly made up of new and unreleased music from myself, Haven affiliates, and artists I love that was created after the pandemic hit in March 2020. Usually, when I record a mix I pull together all the vinyls I've recently purchased, hit record, and start mixing - but for this one, I really wanted to showcase the hard work and passion so many producers have put into their music despite clubs being closed. Consider it a preview of what to expect from us all when the world opens up again over the next year or so."

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Voxnox Podcast 108- Keepsakes

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Drullun (Free DL in description!)

Released late last year on the Auckland (NZ) based label #JusayinAudio on their first FXWRD compilation!

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Junction

@keepsakes, the alias of British-New Zealand producer and DJ James Barrett, has been a strong and distinctive voice in techno since rising to fame through his Stygian Concrete Works and Weapons Grade Manic EPs back in 2014. Since then he has showcased his powerful and menacing, yet often cheeky and playful, productions on influential labels including South London Analogue Material, Perc Trax, MORD, Earwiggle and KAOS.

Furthermore, he founded the Haven club night alongside Jaded Nineties Raver in Tāmaki Maraukau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand) in 2015 - aiming to introduce clubbers to the experimental and harder side of techno in a city completely devoid of this music. 
In 2018 Haven also expanded into a vinyl-focused record label - going on to release many leading international artists including VTSS, Tommy Holohan, New Frames, Peder Mannerfelt, Ayarcana, Ansome, and Ryan James Ford, as well as becoming the main home for Barrett’s own productions.

Now located in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa (Christchurch, New Zealand) - following several years in Berlin hitting the European club circuit - he is focused on bringing his tough and eclectic sound to dance floors worldwide, with regular appearances at international techno institutions providing a platform for his formidable DJ sets.

GUEST SERIES : Keepsakes

BCCO Mix Series 310: Keepsakes

Coming to you via Green Fetish Records 25/09/14!

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Gumming (GFR014)

HATE exclusive premiere.
Full streaming of the EP soon on our HATE Youtube channel.

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https://www.deejay.de/Keepsakes_Blunt_Clout_Trauma_OAKS23_Vinyl__1038299

Artist: Keepsakes 
Title: Blunt Clout Trauma
Label: OAKS
Catalogue: OAKS23
Format: 12" Vinyl
Genre: Electronic
Style: #Techno
Release date: December 22, 2023

Tracklist:
A1 KEEPSAKES - DOG ANONYMOUS FLUID
A2 KEEPSAKES - FUNK THE INFLUENCE 
B1 KEEPSAKES - CRIMINAL DRUM LAB
B2 KEEPSAKES - EGOTISTIC HORN
B3 KEEPSAKES - POWDER OF THE GODS

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INTRODUCING OAKS23, FROM HAVEN´S LABEL BOSS KEEPSAKES. AFTER YEARS OF PLAYING HIS RECORDS, I AM PROUD TO INTRODUCE THIS SPECIAL RELEASE FROM HIM. IT DIVERGES FROM HIS USUAL INDUSTRIAL CONTEXT AND BRINGING IT MORE TO THE OAKS STYLE, SURE WEAPON FOR DISC-JOCKEYS.

EXPLORING NEW DIMENSIONS TO HIS SOUNDS WITH A FOCUS ON FUNK AND GROOVE, SPRINKLES OF EUPHORIA, ZANY ACID AND HIS USUAL DARK ATMOSPHERES.


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Blunt Clout Trauma

POWDER OF THE GODSPOWDER OF THE GODS

Premiere: Keepsakes - POWDER OF THE GODS [OAKS23]

Suburban Mix 219 - Keepsaker (@keepsaker)

Keepsakes, the alias of British-New Zealand producer and DJ James Barrett, has been a strong and distinctive voice in techno since rising to fame through his Stygian Concrete Works and Weapons Grade Manic EPs back in 2014. Since then he has showcased his powerful and menacing, yet often cheeky and playful, productions on influential labels including South London Analogue Material, Perc Trax, MORD, Earwiggle and KAOS.
Furthermore, he founded the Haven club night alongside Jaded Nineties Raver in Tāmaki Maraukau, Aotearoa (Auckland, New Zealand) in 2015 - aiming to introduce clubbers to the experimental and harder side of techno in a city completely devoid of
this music. In 2018 Haven also expanded into a vinyl-focused record label - going on to release many leading international artists including VTSS, Tommy Holohan, New Frames, Peder Mannerfelt, Ayarcana, Ansome, and Ryan James Ford, as well as becoming the main home for Barrett’s own productions.
Now located in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa (Christchurch, New Zealand) - following several years in Berlin hitting the European club circuit - he is focused on bringing his tough and eclectic sound to dance floors worldwide, with regular appearances at international techno institutions providing a platform for his formidable DJ sets.

Suburban Mix 219 - Keepsakes

Vinyl & digital out now on Perc Trax
https://perctrax.bandcamp.com/album/rant-4-cash

Taken from Keepsakes - Rant 4 Cash (TPT099)

A1) Scene Analysis
A2) Scene Analysis (Perc Remix)
B1) Industry Anthem
B2) Pray For Hype

Rant 4 Cash

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Keepsakes - Scene Analysis

Keepsakes - Industry Anthem - Perc Trax

Free download on SEOFREE003

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The Walls Are Rancid (Free DL via Sequel One)

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Following on from recent releases on Hector Oaks’ KAOS/OAKS imprint and formidable London label Perc Trax, Christchurch, New Zealand based techno power-house Keepsakes is now presenting a 4-track EP of wonky and cheeky heavy-hitters via Boys Noize Records on ‘Lead Popsicle’. Combining the left-field sound design and heavy drums of his industrial background with the funk and groove of late 90s and early 2000s techno and second-generation Chicago house, the EP presents a tough yet playful side of the ever expanding Antipodean producer’s sound.

The EP starts with ‘Blink And Don’t Pay’ - a certified stomper taking its lead from electro and ghetto-house inspirations with threatening synth stabs, ear-worm vocal chants and shuffling drum work designed to get feet moving.

This is followed up by ‘Quit Your Dancefloor Yarn’ directly inspired by a number of unwanted club conversations. Wonky tom-led drum rhythms sit alongside quirky vocal loops and a fun alien-communication style synth section guaranteed to prevent punishing dance-floor chats.

Third up is ‘How To Edge An Edgelord’ with its rolling percussion rhythms, robotic vocal hook and atonal screeches and rumbles providing another slab of cheeky club bait for DJs seeking some degenerate drum funk in their sets.

The EP ends with ‘Tyrannical Conga’, a Keepsakes cut that has been in high demand since first being dropped on VTSS’ Dekmantel Boiler Room back in 2022. With its funky and transforming conga rhythms, flanged percussion hits, eerie vocals and sound effects and upfront chunky drum work this one has already been proving its ability to whip up dancers across international floors.

Artist: Keepsakes
Title: Lead Popsicle
Label: Boys Noize Records
Format: Digital
Genre: #Techno

Tracklist:
01. Keepsakes - Blink And Don't Pay
02. Keepsakes - Quit Your Dancefloor Yarn
03. Keepsakes - How To Edge An Edgelord
04. Keepsakes - Tyrannical Conga

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PREMIERE: Keepsakes - How To Edge An Edgelord

HATE exclusive premiere.
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Artist: Keepsakes 
Title: Lead Popsicle
Label: Boysnoize Records
Catalogue: BNR241
Format: Digital
Genre: Electronic
Style: #Techno
Release date: July 19, 2024

Tracklist:
1. Keepsakes - Blink And Don't Pay
2. Keepsakes - Quit Your Dancefloor Yarn
3. Keepsakes - How To Edge An Edgelord
4. Keepsakes - Tyrannical Conga

Follow #Keepsakes here:
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New Zealand is popularly known both for its dramatic Lord of the Rings landscapes and as a haven from the apocalypse for tech billionaires. Perhaps British-New Zealand DJ and producer KEEPSAKES was thinking of the latter when he named his club night and label “HAVEN.” Perhaps, also, living on an island that the rich and powerful believe will outlast some probable planetary calamity evokes an eschatological jouissance marked by paranoia and absurdity. One can sense these feelings in Keepsakes’ Lead Popsicle EP, released 19th July 2024 on BNR, through four tracks of hard techno that eschew synth leads for front-of-mix percussive elements and that, while sparse, are anything but minimal.

Keepsakes likes to troll. You see it in his track titles, and you hear it in the first four bars of opener “Blink and Don’t Pay.” Stuttering over a high-pass filtered 4/4 kick is a tom line so rhythmically opaque that it sounds like the EP kicks off with a shoes-in-dryer trainwreck. Soon, however, the pattern resolves in your head, clicking into place along some erratic triplet grid. When the body catches the groove soon after, it’s a moment of dancefloor magic, and the troll is revealed to be a wizard.

Shuffle and swing, toms and congas, these are the primary colors of Keepsakes’ pallet, which he embellishes with vocal chops and metallic textures inside of a nitrous oxide dome. One simply cannot imagine talking through “Quit Your Dancefloor Yarn,” as the far superior conversation of the drums is sure to drown out any other. The melodically tuned rhythm feels animated, alive, as if the sounds were bouncing out of the speaker in some soft but dense material form, like gravity-defying, rubber-coated sandbags.

“How to Edge An Edgelord” manifests a kind of post-Goa delirium with wild wails of uncanny valley origin. This one has a stiff mbackbone; it stomps and punches, leaving the skittering to the alien chatter of machine elves. What the voices say is indiscernible, but their command is understood. Keepsakes closes the EP with “Tyrannical Conga,” stripping back his production to dial in, hypnotically, on the drum. Texture and tension builds in waves, driven by an unsteady metronome, until its menacing peak is punctured by a laugh, and the process begins again.

For dopamine-fueled bodies and internet-poisoned minds, Keepsakes’ Lead Popsicle EP offers a manic dance at the edge of annihilation. After all, the end of the world seems most certain in the places people go to escape it.


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Lead Popsicle

Tyrannical Conga

Premiere: Keepsakes - Tyrannical Conga [BNR241]

Here it is, one of my favourite nightclub memories of 2024 - playing vinyl for a 5-hour all-night mid-winter set in Ōtautahi, Aotearoa (Christchurch, New Zealand) at the incredible Galaxy Arcade on the legendary Subtle Sound System for one of the @havenakl parties.

This is a pretty decent representation of my vinyl-buying habits over the past 10 years. It starts with ambient/experimental for the first 30 minutes and slowly builds up the energy through multiple different eras of techno, house, broken-beat, electro, break-beats, EBM, and everything in between culminating in a sweaty punk thrash-about in the finale. It even includes local 03 menace Jay Luv accidentally knocking the needle on the last tune due to over-enthusiasm.

Big ups to all the dancers who came through and gave their energy on the night and to everyone who's music I played - none of this happens without any of you!!

KEEPSAKES: ALL VINYL, ALL NIGHT // HAVEN ŌTAUTAHI 09/08/24

Finally got round to getting this oldie mastered! Giving this away as a a bit of thank you for all the support you lot have given me over the past couple of years!

Re-up of the 320 here - http://www.mediafire.com/listen/etahyf7n1zn4kc9/Keepsakes_-_Meat_-_Mastered.mp3

Meat (Free DL in description!)

Flunk (MINDCUT011)

The Skeptics were one of the most interesting and forward thinking NZ post-punk bands of the 1980s that made creative use of the early sampling technology, and were perhaps best known for their track 'AFFCO', from their album 'Skeptics III', along with its graphic and controversial video.

This is a bootleg remix made (mostly) using samples from 'Skeptics III' that I worked on for a bit of fun during my recent EU tour. It felt like the perfect place to source samples from because there are so many moods and textures packed in to each individual track - for me this record really does stand out amongst the entire Flying Nun discography.

Hope you all enjoy! Shouts to Martyn Hare for the mastering!

Re-up of the WAV here: - http://www.mediafire.com/file/8dtzb3edmieewdj/Skeptics_III_Keepsakes_Bootleg_MH_master_%284416%29.wav

Skeptics III (Keepsakes Bootleg)(Free DL in description!)

Lil remix I did of a Pinion tune for Martyn Hare's almighty label @emetic_uk!

Pinion - 111.1 (Keepsakes Remix)

Proud to announce we are launching @havenakl as a vinyl label on January 12th 2018 with my next EP 'Perspectives From A Sterile Hellhole'!

The 12" is available to pre-order online now on all good online stores!

Perspectives From A Sterile Hellhole

Pick 'em Till They Bleed (HVN001)

The B1 from the next release on @havenakl - 'Music For The Vitriolic Age' - a split EP between myself and @ayarcana!

Releasing 08/06/2018!

Populist Piss Pot (HVN002)

SLUDGY BROKEN BEATS AND UPLIFTING VOCAL SAMPLES IN A SLO-MO TECHNO BRUISER

HVN006 // MODERN ANXIOUS VERNACULAR // OUT 03/05/2019 ON @havenakl

https://havenakl.bandcamp.com/album/modern-anxious-vernacular-hvn006

Selfies Are For The Weak (HVN006)

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Keepsakes (@keepsakes) representing Perc's (@perc) - Perc Trax label for the ADE 2020 related October Series.

October = music month

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Artwork by Ilse Kind

Keepsakes [vinyl set] - Perc Trax | Intercell October Series 2020

Producer/DJ of tektek bangerz

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International Bookings - kuba@urbanum.net
Australian Bookings - josh@tangleagency.com
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