Will Keen, aka Keeno, may just be a young lad in his early 20s, but he’s already carved a niche for himself as the master of heart-tugging musical D ’n’ B.
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After just a few releases on underground liquid D ’n’ B labels (including the infamous Liquid Tones) he signed to Hospital spin-off imprint Med School in 2014, and has already released two albums, 2014’s Life Cycle and last year’s Futurist. We caught up with him in his Bristol studio for an exclusive peek at the title track from his latest EP, Enigma.
So, how did the idea for this track come about?
“Every morning before I sit down for breakfast I’ll just play keys for 15-20 minutes and see if anything happens. The initial idea that happens in the breakdown of Enigma was one of those ideas that I had. I didn’t know what to call it, so I just named it Enigma on my phone and that title just seemed to inspired me. The song has got a bit of mystery behind it; it’s moving in a different direction to the stuff that I’d written previously.”
How so?
This story is from the February 2017 edition of Future Music.
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