Electronica

KBeard (Terrorist) - Manchester, UK

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Kev Rolfe (aka Kbeard) has been involved in Djing & Club Promotion since he was 19yrs old and started his first night ‘Tighten Up!’ at The London Apprentice (now Club333) where he was the sole Dj and organiser.

Kbeards Manchester career started over 9yrs ago when he asked to join in the shaping of legendary club night Homo Electric as it moved from venue to venue and settled in its spiritual home of Legends; a mouldy basement labyrinth with 4 rooms each playing different music....all that was needed was a bit of decor. No flash lightrigs needed...just quality records and passion.

Kbeard was given a own room for his own needs...playing electronica and anything else that was unheard...putting on live electronic acts, performance, solo artists and showing never seen underground films.

Along with his partner (together known as The Beards) they began attending events that took their interest and became prominent figures on Manchesters music and arts scene...events like the International Doodlebug Day, Futuresonic Festival & Great British Bear Bash, events in which they organised a part of the event to showcase up and coming talent relevant to each event; they also took part in an installation piece for the Comme Ca Gallery in Manchester.

KBeard was asked by Bear Mafia to design a range of t-shirts and sent them a series of exclusive designs including the Bear Hug t-shirt and the notorious pink cock t-shirt based on Vivienne Westwood's seminal Seditionaries range (meaning the necessity to seduce people into revolt).

KBeard is a poet in print and has work published in over 41 books.

The Beards have taken part in an exhibition based in Barcelona at the Mercado Gallery.

Kev has been playing laptop sets tailor-made for whatever club he played, and has Djed in Barcelona (headlining the opening party at Bearcalona.06),Rome(RadioDD Festival) and Milan(Pornflakes Queer Crew Party) where he did a live Dj and art set with his partner, as well as gigs around Manchester and the Uk.

So far KBeard has earned praise from the Manchester press who describe him as 'able to shift effortlessly from glitchy electronica to sci-fi soul and to the rawest electro (while remaining crowd pleasingly accessible), its indeed a sound to behold' and 'whether it be the genre-bending Dj sets he plays in and around the city pulling in non-scene influences ranging from electronica to northern soul, he’s prolific and unconstrained by other people's expectations'...together with his partner they have also been refered to as 'Manchesters anti-heroes'.

Kev was signed to LA based experimental label Dragons Eye Recordings & Berlin’s CrippleDickHotWax.The music on these labels is a complete departure to the work, art & Djing sound K Beard is associated with; in 2008 KBeard contributed 4 tracks to the soundtrack of Bruce Labruce’s ‘Otto: Or, Up With Dead People’ which was released in late 2008.

Kbeard has had articles in Manchester Evening News, Metro, City Life, EuroPride Magazine, OutNorthWest Magazine and Attitude Magazine to name but a few.

Kbeard is now involved in the music/performance/visual night Terrorist.

Tracklist:

1. Datassette Vs Kate Bush- running up that hill.
2. Modeselektor- sucker pin.
3. Octogen- james.
4. Metro Area- rhythm reel #6.
5. Mr Velcro Fastener- housin' with the T's.
6. The Reflecting Skin- traffickers.
7. Vector Lovers- futures in plastic (Claro Intelecto Mix).
8. Andy Stott- edyocat.
9. Jega- post mid arc.
10. Marko Fuerstenberg- site 312.
11. Apparat- can't computerize it.
12. Quadrant- Quadrant III.
13. Cursor Miner Vs Eurythmics- love is snapped (KBeard Remix).
14. Marcel Dettmann- a req (T++ remix).
15. Minilogue- hitchhikers choice.
16. IMPS- uncle limps (Minilogue Remix).
17. Deadbeat- xberg ghosts.
18. MLZ- m-brane.
19. Modeselektor- dancing box (sleeparchive mix).
20. Mikkel Metal- newson five.
21. Sasha- who killed sparky ?
22. [A]pendics Shuffle- no reduction(all that money).
23. Gescom- puzl.
24. Solotempo- szene2.
25 Mariel Ito- future 2020.
26. Octogen-the journeyman.
27. Dopplereffekt- plastiphillia 2.
28. Plastikman- fuk.
29. Anthony Rother Vs Kraftwerk- nummern/computerwelt.
30. Claro Intelecto- section 2.
31. Datassette- dataworld.
32. Pendle Coven- waveplate.
33. I.F- space invaders are smoking grass.
34. Hulov Novich- jahrgang 98.
35. Bitstream- dragon 32.
36. Various Production- diver.
37. Skream- stagger.
38. Benga- flame.
39. Datassette- box.
40. Hudson Mohawke- overnight.