Kero

1) Kero

With over 20 releases on some of electronic music’s most celebrated and innovative labels such as Bpitch, Ghostly International and Shitkatapult and most recently Downwards as well as his own critically acclaimed Detroit Underground Records, Kero (nee Sohail Azad) has established a reputation for his unrepentantly brash, yet cultivated compositions and unforgettable live performances, most recently, alongside notables such as Speedy J, Ken Ishii and Funkstorung. Furthermore, he has established himself as a leader within the growing pack of electronic music producers successfully infiltrating contemporary art circles world wide.

His innovative approach to music, graphic design and video production feeds on the detritus of popular electronic culture, creating a montage of fleeting musical and visual experiences that are paradoxically critical and enamored with contemporary culture.

Drawing on his experiences as a dual citizen of both Canada and the United States, Kero conducts visual and aural investigations that are concerned with ideas of the diametric and intermediary. Subsequently, the ephemeral nature of electronic culture, the “rave” experience and aesthetics offers a microcosm to explore similar elements in popular culture. The result is music that blurs genres from hip-hop to the most rarified of techno experiments, video art which stirs faint recollections of print and televised media, and a design language that has ingrained itself upon the most celebrated electro-cultural market in the world.

Complete Discography

Midget Breaks (12", Blu) St@ic Records (static) 1999

CFC Windsor / Detroit (12") Shitkatapult 2001

CFC Windsor / Detroit (CD) Shitkatapult 2001

Busted Berlin (12") BPitch Control 2002

Firewire FUNK (12") Low Res Records 2003

Whats Dat Smell? (File, MP3) Textone 2003

Kerologistics (CD, Album) Neo Ouija 2005

2Advanced4U (12", Pro) Touchin' Bass 2007

2Advanced4U (12") Touchin' Bass 2007

Remixes:

Rewired In My Manor (CD, Album) Shit Pod It's Hot (Rew... Hydrogen Dukebox 2002

Rewired In My Manor (LP) Shit Pod It's Hot (Rew... Hydrogen Dukebox 2002

Barwy Kolorow (CD) Wszystko Jest Odwrotni... M-Tronic 2004

The Message / Anymore (12") The Message (Kero Remix) Rematter 2004

Slides (CD, Enh) M-Bizzler 4Shizzler (K... M-Tronic 2005

Transfer (12") Transfer (Kero Remix) Blueprint 2006

After Dark + Blueprints (2xCD, Album) Sex Education (Kero Re... Fiche Music 2007

Production:

Asbestos (Remix) / Left (12") Infrastructure New York 2005

Transfer (12") Blueprint 2006

Appears On:

Shitkatapult 50 - Special Musick For Special People (4xLP) USB Urger Shitkatapult 2004

Shitkatapult 50 - Special Musick For Special People (DVD-V, PAL + File, MP3) USB Urger, USB Urger Shitkatapult 2004

Asbestos (Remix) / Left (12") Infrastructure New York 2005

Tracks Appear On:

Sender Loops 24 (12") Loop B4, Loop B7 Sender Records 2001

2002 Gemeinsam (CD, Dig) Grizzly Grizzeg BPitch Control 2002

Gemeinsam (2xLP) Grizzly Grizzeg BPitch Control 2002

Malfunction EP (12") USB.GLITCH.TEK Feed The Machine Records 2002

No Title (12") Pdatek, Port Replication Live Wire Records 2002

Sender Loops 24-2 (12") Untitled Sender Records 2002

DemSongzByWe (12") Bent (Funckarma Remix) Onrecords 2003

Detroit Underground (12") Turrets Irie Detroit Underground 2003

Idol Tryouts : Ghostly International Vol. 1 (2xLP) Ti Shlumpa Ghostly International 2003

Wabi - 4 Years (CD) Lipitor Toke Taker Wabi 2003

_Lounge Essenzen 03 (CD) B4us428-10cntrl Die Lounge 2003

Ctrl-F2 (File, MP3) 3-21 Modsquare 2004

Designated Drivers 2004 (File, MP3, 192) Wsecong Textone 2004

Detroit Underground (Part 2) (12") 10:48 Done, 26th Birthday Detroit Underground 2004

Detroit Underground (Part 3) (12") Turrets Irie (Latin Su... Detroit Underground 2004

Detroit Underground (Part 4) (12") 26th Birthday / Bent (... Detroit Underground 2004

Shitkatapult 50 - Special Musick For Special People (4xLP) USB Urger Shitkatapult 2004

Shitkatapult 50 - Special Musick For Special People (DVD-V, PAL + File, MP3) USB Urger, Interview, ... Shitkatapult 2004

Detroit Underground (Part 5) (12") Drop (Lowfish's Killed... Detroit Underground 2005

Detroit Underground (Part 6) (12") Deform4-Final2 Detroit Underground 2005

Detroit Underground (Part 6) (12", Promo, W/Lbl) Deform4-Final2 Detroit Underground 2005

Subvaritrax™ (CD) Shuf1 SubVariant Recordings 2005

We Love It Minimal (CD) Apocalyptic (Soul Trai... XMAG 2005

126a (12") Randomtheoryviamoov Semantica Records 2006

Bleeps-oh-six (File, MP3) Untitled (On Acid Again) Warp Records 2006

Friendly Integration (CD, Enh) Turrets Irie, 10:48 Do... Detroit Underground 2006

From Website 2 Website (File, MP3) Moving Drumz Zerinnerung 2006

From Website 2 Website (File, MP3) Moving Drumz Mixotic 2006

The Art Of Modern Mixing (CD) Drop (Lowfish Killed &... DJ Magazine 2006

Untitled (DVD) Deform4-Final2 Spex Magazine 2006

Intelligent Toys 4 (File, MP3) Bilder Sutemos 2007

This Is For You Shits (CD, Ltd) Prof Railer Warp Records 2007

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