Keef Baker - Pen Fifteen



Title:Pen Fifteen
Artist:Keef Baker
Release: February 2009
Label:Hymen Records

This is a mighty double-long player! “Pen Fifteen” is the new album from Keef Baker, the mighty IDM poet. “Pen Fifteen” comes along with a second disc called “Light City”, a stunning mix done by Keef. But, first things first. Pen Fifteen is a dream of youth by Keef, merging his personal music style together with Metal music. Kicking of with the melancholy track called “Getting Older” Keef gives us a bewildering statement that will clear up through the following tracks itself. Then with the following tracks mighty basses and absolute stunning programmed drums allow us to take a look inside his genius brain. This man is living “art” and  a punk and metal addict!
This rough basis is flavoured with ambient soundscapes, piano lines and suddenly out of nowhere with metal guitar riffs. Each second is a surprise, but in this unsafe musical environment you start to feel safe. Sounds illogical, but the answer is that Keef brings forward the feelings of a generation above the Thirties, and bewitch the generation beneath this age with his bittersweet appraisal. This album is a milestone, its straight forward, cynic and strangely dreamily. A miracle.
I love “Pen Fifteen” for its roughness and its grown up vulnerability!
A perfect ten that touched my heart deeply!
The second disc you get with “Pen Fifteen” is called “Light City”.
A trip into Keefs live sets, an enthusiastic mix! But this fast and wild mix of Keef’s club sounds is also a statement adjunctive to the music, the person and the concept of “Pen Fifteen”. Both albums are a kind of “dropping pants”. If you listen carefully to this mighty double-album you will out more about the person Keef Baker as you can read in any magazine. A rough journey though Keef's conception of a clubbing night ...Techno, IDM, Acid merged together to a perfect night.
“Light City” is a statement, a testimonial of a genius and a present for all of you who listen to music with your ears, brain, heart and feet…
Message received? 10***
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