Why Keith Dropped The S

05/12/2022

Anonymous Visitor is a mixtape glued together with left-overs of rough recorded KRAMP cassettes that were most of the time left behind on trains or donated in letterboxes as an anonymous invitation. The cassettes are a collection of weird field recordings and distorted sound experiments brought together on 2 tape decks. One is doing his job and the other one is broken after it drank too much water from the sea during a recording in Athens. From then on, the sound of the sea is caught into the machine, the speed is totally uncontrollable and the play button doesn't hold itself.

1 track album

03/07/2022

Callosal

For two no-input mixing boards and one Joseon bowl fragment.

The two separate feedback systems were only able to communicate with and influence each other by vibrating through the bowl fragment. This fragment of a bowl made in Korea’s Joseon period was discovered by Alfred 23 Harth in Korea and given to me as a gift, for which I am very grateful. To place this artefact from centuries ago between two implements of modern electronic music-making suggests a larger point.

It is often, if not always, the case that different sets of potentials (technological or otherwise) can only operate with and on each other through the traditions, attitudes and frames of thought passed down to us by our history. In such situations, it is wise not only to evaluate the possibilities themselves as though they were in isolation, but also to take into account the breadth or narrowness of these attitudinal conduits through which they must pass in their constant communication with each other as they co-evolve, in order to properly gauge how this evolution is developing and what might be changed in order to encourage progress along a more universally beneficial path.

Massimo Magee, London, March 2022

1 track album

10/12/2021

If anyone is interested in a vinyl copy of anything in our catalogue, email me at [email protected]

https://whykeithdroppedthes.bandcamp.com/

10/04/2021

Engaged in a duel of wits, Seventeen Arguments is a selection of duets and solos for Vitamin C Supplements, Sauce Bottles, Insulation Foam, Paint Brush, Drainpipe, Radio, Police Scanner, Prayer Box, Toaster, Bread, Butter, Knife, Lighters, Samsung Phone, iPod Touch, Thumb Piano, Egg Slicer, Books, Bike Horns, Paint, Paper, Bells and Packing Peanuts.

1 track album

09/16/2021

Double bass, loops and modular synthesizer improvisation. Recorded at home on 2 September by Hannes d'Hoine

1 track album

08/12/2021

Mik Quantius is true European underground cult. He speaks in tongues and comes in peace. He's the krautrock Beefheart. He's the esoteric metalhead. He's a one man voodoo ritual. He's Neil from The Young Ones and Garth from Wayne's World in one. He was live in Jerusalem.

1 track album

06/24/2021

WHY KEITH DROPPED THE S presents its 22nd album, "12 Portraits", a re-issue of the CD compilation put together by Belgian modern composer Paul A.R. Timmermans, originally released and sold in 2002 on his own website.
"12 Portraits" contains contributions from some of the key players in minimal and experimental music from around that time, such as Laurie Spiegel, Alvin Curran, Moniek Darge and Baudouin Oosterlynck, amongst others.

12 track album

06/14/2021

Today's offering is from French sonic architect Clarice Calvo-Pinsolle!

4 track album

06/07/2021

Paul A.R. Timmermans (aka P-ART) Born 1950, Belgium. Composer and curator of "The P-ART Projects".
Multi-artist: contemporary piano, sound objects, installations, sculpturing synth sounds, intuitive sound performing, microtonal music, instant compositions on tape, MIDI-files, HD recording and audio CDs:

"Composing really is an organic process: I respond spontaneously and intuitively to an incident as it is thrown into my lap. I take the same approach when creating my multitrack recordings.”

Now available exclusively on the planet Earth

6 track album

05/27/2021

Today's offering is hauntingly beautiful improvised solo violin from Queenslander Adam Cadell!

4 track album

05/13/2021

A healthy serving of thematic vibrations from Cardiff based artist Ian Watson

4 track album