Week #17: Kezokichi / EXETER / Cellar Door

I'm having pronunciation troubles with this guy. Kezzokeeshee? Or Keyzokitchee? Who knows. But who the hell cares when this Tokyo-sent, London-based outlander creates such nifty tunes? In 'Pignic', he overwhelms the scene with winning lightsabres of screaming 22nd century house music. Manipulated voices resonate as if splurged out of a volcano at lightning-speed. Throttling basslines pound your brain cells 'til there's nothing there. Siren-y synths meander incessantly. The fact this music is at once so silly ('Pignic'— stupidly genius), visceral and otherworldly warrants it a gargantuan gold star. Check out his soundcloud for a back catalogue of remixes and originals so diverse even Odd Future might be a little envious.

Next up is a deft beatmaker who resides under the guise of EXETER, but isn't actually from the Devonshire city. In reality, this man's a Torontonian (that's an inhabitant of Toronto to you and I) named Evan Doyle. His sounds flit between the choppy and the melodious, the freaky and the.... well, it's always a bit freaky. Joltily employing and embedding heaps of samples, be they scripts from horror films or 80s synth-pop jangles, he always manages to get you on your feet, dancing maniacally like a zombie off Dead Snow. Download his fantastic new tune 'TO BE WITH YOU EVERYWHERE' for free below. Follow him on twitter here.




The final member of this week's electronic threesome is the wonderful Cellar Door (it's actually entirely coincidental that all three of this week's acts conjure up bewildering, twisted electronica, and are all males who make dance music alone). But 'Headdress', CD's latest jam, is IDM gone bananas! What we have is an intricately composed instrumental led by thumping keyboard beats and twinkling keys, and it makes me happy. This is first class middle-of-night-last-minute-revision music. It's motivational. Download it for free: