Email Author Darren Keast

2001 Stories by Darren Keast

• Balancing Act

  published December 26, 2001

  Since its inception in late 1998, Naked Music has been the little dance label that could. Of the hundreds of domestic independent labels servicing... More >>

• Cold Snap

  published December 12, 2001

  Cynical groups that believe a meteoric rise in the music business is impossible without compromise and video airplay will want to study the career... More >>

• Cat Five

  published November 21, 2001

  Recently, the British magazine The Face declared Oakland's Cat Five "the prime example of the Left Coast's laptop revolution," seemingly... More >>

• A Foggy Notion

  published November 7, 2001

  Dan Prothero lives in the Lower Haight, produces dance music for his own label, and DJs around town occasionally. But you won't find any... More >>

• Roots Manuva

  published September 19, 2001

  Roots Manuva named his first album, 1999's promising Brand New Second Hand, after a song on Peter Tosh's landmark effort Legalize... More >>

• Into the Mystic

  published July 25, 2001

  Right in the middle of our telephone interview, just as she's recounting how and with whom she recorded her first song, Mystic is interrupted by... More >>

• Return of the Freakazoid

  published June 6, 2001

  Adam Miller was a recent art school graduate with electro dreams when he moved from Detroit to San Francisco in 1993. Looking for a suitable place... More >>

• Mission:

  published May 30, 2001

  If the copyright date on One were 1993 and not 2001, Mission:'s debut album would probably be talked about in hushed tones. The Berklee... More >>

• Raw Deal

  published May 23, 2001

  While "the sound of San Francisco" means many different things to many different people, it was synonymous during the mid-'90s with acid jazz, a... More >>

• Redemption Song

  published April 4, 2001

  Shuggie Otis started banging around on the drums back in 1957 when he was 4 years old. His dad, blues legend and KPFA DJ Johnny Otis, bought him... More >>

• Class Cutups

  published March 28, 2001

  Matmos' fourth album, A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to... More >>

• Proof Positive

  published February 14, 2001

  Before he traveled to the United States in 1969, Nigerian superstar Fela Anikulapo-Kuti composed largely within the confines of "highlife," a... More >>

• Peace Out

  published January 3, 2001

  The first thing the members of San Francisco hip hop group Rainbow Flava want to make clear is that the outfit isn't an anomaly. When Dutchboy,... More >>