Label: Kusha Deep Music
Title: If I Could Be Your Pill
Artist: KDX
Bring back the moment in your mind, when dance music was all about euphoria and unwavering positivity. The uplifting message to reach out for the endless possibilities and meeting like minded souls in clubs in London and Ibiza, who would then become friends for life, made the scene the biggest thing since the love in summer of 1967.
Bring on the 21st century and a decade passed where music changed from being about passion to an obsession with bling culture, style over content and with production straight from the wallet, you could be mistaken for thinking that the top ten was made in the same bedroom by the same person. Rest easy though because all is not lost.
Enter KDX, a UK team incorporating Darragh J Brady, Music Producer and Proprietor of the Kusha Deep Music label and Dean J.Stapple who runs the XRG label responsible for number one sample packs.
Darragh has a dance track record having scored hits by Taste of Paradise with a track called Reach Out released by the classic Cooltempo label that reached the UK chart in the early 90’s. Following that, Darragh had hits with Bliss, Urban Harmonix feat Rachel Brown of Faithless and Groove Armarda. He has also created records under his own name of Dar.Ra producing a more organic Soul Rock crossover that he calls Roul Music.
The team hooked up after Dean asked Darragh to make a stripped down version of his debut solo album Soul Hours, a completely live album cut down in 8 bar loops which so far has been a well received producer album on the biggest download outlet in the world for dance music loops.
Dean decided it was time to turn out a full tune, rather than the 8 bar loop tip and called in the help of Darragh for a new dance track that he had put together. Darragh then put pen to paper and worked out the song with his trusty guitar and Be Your Pill was born.
Some intense studio sessions gave birth to what is being called a modern dance classic. Bringing the euphoric vibe of 90’s house music scene mixed with 21st century production techniques is key to the KDX sound. The vocals written and performed by Darragh are more about being the lift for someone in their hour of need to take them out of the dark and into the light then being about misuse of substances.
The music is anthemic from the open big synth riffs and then builds into a hands in the air chorus, big groove and take you there arrangements. The radio mix delivers as does the extended vocal club mix. There is also a dubby remix which just powers along with trance like hedonism. A tight production all the way!
Available through all digital platforms!
For further insights please feel free to visit!
www.kushadeep.co.uk
www.soundcloud.com/kushadeep
kushadeep@yahoo.co.uk
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Monday, 1 August 2011
Thursday, 11 June 2009
Tonic For The Times
Artist:Dar.Ra
Album Release
Title:The Soul Hours
Label Kusha Deep Records
UK based Singer/Songwriter and Music Producer, started out signed to Chrysalis/EMI back in the nineties and achieved his first success with Taste of Paradise. The band had a couple of hits; one of which titled Reach Out, became an Ibizian dance classic as well as hitting the UK top 40. After hitting a number one spot with a tune called New Dawn in which he supplied the vocals, released under name of Bliss, Dar.ra got the offer to tour out in Australia. The tour lasted 2 years, as Dar.Ra got seduced by the lifestyle, however he didn’t lay on a beach but spent it working in a box like studio with no windows and only came out at night.
As a result, he produced a fair bit of work for labels such as BMG and Festival Records scoring another top 40 with a band called Ultra Love Machine. Before returning to the UK, he produced an experimental album titled ‘Breathe’ featuring a host of Australian artists including Daevid Allen from the legendary Soft Machine and Gong.
Dar.Ra came back to the UK in 2003, setting up the Kusha Deep label in order to create a strong base from which his projects could thrive. The first release was called Majestic Retrospective covering the dance decade 1992-2002 which shows his versatility as a writer and producer.
The Soul Hours album is his latest release, 12 solid tracks drawing on earlier influences from legendary British rock acts like the Small Faces, The Who and Soul Aces like Otis Reading and Marvin Gaye. Writing, producing and performing the vocal duties on the album is Dar.Ra’s tour de force and shows again what is possible on a micro budget and a desire to make something real.
The songs range from edgy rock tracks like Fearless which deals with the subject of going to War, questions patriotism in songs like Red White And Blue and tracks like The Pressure deals with the subject of being caught in the rat race. Other more radio friendly tracks like Fly 2 Night and Safe In Ur Arms have already become hits on some of the independent radio stations around the UK, being played on BBC Radio East to over a million people when Dar.Ra did a live session for Sue Marchant recently. The follow up single to Fly 2 Nite from the album, a track called ‘Start Again’ is a powerful rock/soul ballad which should help to break the album to a bigger audience when its released this summer.
Dar.Ra has just completed some very successful shows in a Theatre production called The M Boat where he played the part of a young Irish Boatman working the Barges of Dublin in the 50’s. This experience has inspired him to write a script around the Soul Hours album in order to take the album out on the road without having to do the usual band routine of just playing the songs. ‘I want to do something different, that will lift peoples spirits in a time when we need it the most’
In a time of throw away culture, this music is not disposable. The Soul Hours album is available through Kusha Deep Records and Itunes
Download Now On http://www.kushadeep.com/
Or http://www.myspace.com/kushadeep
For further info email kushadeep@yahoo.co.uk or call ++44(0)7746605254
Album Release
Title:The Soul Hours
Label Kusha Deep Records
UK based Singer/Songwriter and Music Producer, started out signed to Chrysalis/EMI back in the nineties and achieved his first success with Taste of Paradise. The band had a couple of hits; one of which titled Reach Out, became an Ibizian dance classic as well as hitting the UK top 40. After hitting a number one spot with a tune called New Dawn in which he supplied the vocals, released under name of Bliss, Dar.ra got the offer to tour out in Australia. The tour lasted 2 years, as Dar.Ra got seduced by the lifestyle, however he didn’t lay on a beach but spent it working in a box like studio with no windows and only came out at night.
As a result, he produced a fair bit of work for labels such as BMG and Festival Records scoring another top 40 with a band called Ultra Love Machine. Before returning to the UK, he produced an experimental album titled ‘Breathe’ featuring a host of Australian artists including Daevid Allen from the legendary Soft Machine and Gong.
Dar.Ra came back to the UK in 2003, setting up the Kusha Deep label in order to create a strong base from which his projects could thrive. The first release was called Majestic Retrospective covering the dance decade 1992-2002 which shows his versatility as a writer and producer.
The Soul Hours album is his latest release, 12 solid tracks drawing on earlier influences from legendary British rock acts like the Small Faces, The Who and Soul Aces like Otis Reading and Marvin Gaye. Writing, producing and performing the vocal duties on the album is Dar.Ra’s tour de force and shows again what is possible on a micro budget and a desire to make something real.
The songs range from edgy rock tracks like Fearless which deals with the subject of going to War, questions patriotism in songs like Red White And Blue and tracks like The Pressure deals with the subject of being caught in the rat race. Other more radio friendly tracks like Fly 2 Night and Safe In Ur Arms have already become hits on some of the independent radio stations around the UK, being played on BBC Radio East to over a million people when Dar.Ra did a live session for Sue Marchant recently. The follow up single to Fly 2 Nite from the album, a track called ‘Start Again’ is a powerful rock/soul ballad which should help to break the album to a bigger audience when its released this summer.
Dar.Ra has just completed some very successful shows in a Theatre production called The M Boat where he played the part of a young Irish Boatman working the Barges of Dublin in the 50’s. This experience has inspired him to write a script around the Soul Hours album in order to take the album out on the road without having to do the usual band routine of just playing the songs. ‘I want to do something different, that will lift peoples spirits in a time when we need it the most’
In a time of throw away culture, this music is not disposable. The Soul Hours album is available through Kusha Deep Records and Itunes
Download Now On http://www.kushadeep.com/
Or http://www.myspace.com/kushadeep
For further info email kushadeep@yahoo.co.uk or call ++44(0)7746605254
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