David Kennedy steps into the Essential Mix hot seat for Radio 1 and blazes through tracks by Zomby, Oneohtrix Point Never, Floating Points, Burial and Joy O.
Pearson Sound talks to teshno about the trials and tribulations of DJing around the world ahead of his gig b2b Joy Orbison for Mono_Cult, Leeds, this weekend.
The Fader have half an hour of Ramadanman/Pearson Sound's fabriclive 56 ahead of its release next week.
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David Kennedy
Following a momentous year of releases in 2010 and having concentrated his output under the Pearson Sound moniker, David Kennedy’s following 12 months have been just as busy; but for different reasons.
Releasing a critically acclaimed FABRICLIVE compilation in March he’s since remixed and opened for one of music’s most respected acts, Radiohead, in New York. Having travelled across Europe on the first Hessle Audio tour of the continent he’s also DJd on the London Eye, lectured at Red Bull Music Academy in Madrid and he’s constantly finding himself in new and interesting positions; whether that’s following Moodymann on a Sunday afternoon in a London basement or pre-empting Rusko at an open air festival.
Still very much a key component in the running of the Hessle Audio label, whose ‘1..