Here's the story: King Roc wrote dance music, once. He's half of the wildly successful techno / deep house duo Two Armadillos with Giles Smith of UK club pioneers Secretsundaze. He DJs Brazil, China, Australia, a couple of times each year each as well as regularly playing the big European and UK clubs. He lives in Brazil and Berlin but really he's a nicely-mannered gent from southwest London. And he's carved out quite a job reinterpreting big names from Future Sound of London to New Order to S-Xpress to new blood like D-Nox and Beckers.
But he doesn't like to talk much, and two years back he was fed up to the back teeth of 4/4 for the dancefloor. So when he met Australian artist Seb Godfrey of Drunkpark, they hatched a plan together.
A concept album that won't explain itself.
(But it started with some ideas about dreams, intuition, happenstance and coincidence.)
No talking. Big secret theories. A concept album.
Starting with: A set of four collectable 12"s (each with a lovely poster!) Artwork by Seb, each 12" with its own theme - the first of which was "chance". Music by King Roc - but the 12s had to run from ambient to trip-hop to indie to Orbital-style oldschool to techno.
And then: for the final CD, each track had to be ripped apart and thrown back together for its reappearance on the CD - with trip-hop transformed into a beautiful vocal number, or techno into lush, beatless cinematics.
Voila - the CD you have now, Chapters.
The hype has been building for some time now round the 12"s and their visuals - an increasingly rare, non-disposable approach to vinyl that King Roc paid for from his own pocket. "They're the best thing King Roc has ever done" - IDJ. "[This] will be the year King Roc claims his crown ... [the 12"s are] dreamy ... elegant ... gorgeous ... bittersweet ... melancholy" - DJ mag. And that's alongside the more experimental names raving about his Two Armadillos work, like Agoria calling it "perfect for summer days".
What's the concept for the album? - You can explain these things, says King Roc, but it sounds arrogant. The questions have to be more important than the answers. There's some maths in there [Phidias Gold is sequenced to follow the timing of the "Golden Ratio" of intervals of 1.68], there's a dream about an enormous plant made of brick that inspired the entire fourth EP, Dreamattic, and Flow is about those few times in life when you are totally ego-free and entirely in the moment.
But the background can be saved for Seb's video for track one, the Beginning, (9 Mar) and for the website (15 Mar). There are no direct answers. There are only chapters in a person's life...
Selected Discography
Feed On Me - Back Yard Recordings 2004
Pressure / How Big Is It - Kingsize 2005
Prime Evil - 1 Trax Recordings 2005
Prime Evil - Cassagrande 2005
Better Ways - iO Music 2005
Take Me Away / Mirror To Infinity - Bugged Out 2006
The Tip - Love Minus Zero 2006
Tirades Of ENV - KRPD 2006
Welcome To Zion - Simple Records 2006
Chapter I: Lunaris - Mutual Society 2007
Flicker EP - Love Minus Zero 2007
Remixes:
Chicken Lips 'Do It Proper' - Azuli Black 2004
Plastique EP 'Metro Sexuality' - Beautycase-Records 2004
Dylan Rhymes 'Salty' - Kingsize 2004
Atlantis 'Atlantis' - Skyline Records 2005
Andy Bell 'Crazy' - Sanctuary Records 2005
Holderman 'Left / Right Switch' - Involved Productions 2005
Peas (12") Peas - Most Records 2005
Mark Moore 'Trash The Can' - Umami 2005
New Order 'True Faith' - New State Recordings 2006
Cass & Mangan 'Caper' - Playtime 2006
'She's Hardcore' - Toolroom Trax 2006
Breakfasterz 'The Pressure' - Passenger 2006
Junkie XL 'Today' - Skyline Records 2006
Pablo Bolivar 'Vertigo EP' - Bay Street Recordings 2006
FSOL 'We Have Explosive' - Virgin Records 2006
Above & Beyond 'Good For Me' - Ultra 2007
Gastek 'White' (King Roc Remix) DJ Magazine 2007
Stakker Humanoid 'Stakker Humanoid' - Jumpin' & Pumpin' 2007
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