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him to add his dulcet tones to ‘Barcelona’ as well
“To have my
as ragga rhyme his way through a live set, maybe
first record be as
From Austria With Love:
the spotlight wouldn’t be shining so brightly. But
successful as ‘LK’
Knowledge gets on the phone
instead of revelling in his rising MC superstar
doesn’t happen to
to d.kay in Vienna:
status, he shuns it in pursuit of self-improvement.
“My favourite MCs are Conrad, Cleveland and a lot of people but
HOW DID YOU HOOK UP WITH EPSILON?
Dynamite because you can take what they say out
that doesn’t make We met in 1998 when we were both ran nights at the Flex, a big Vienna club. He was a friend of a friend and I
of the music and write it down and it still makes
me an artist. I
thought he was a safe guy. After a while I quit promotion but he still runs All Souled Out, a Friday night Swerve
sense. It’s something of musical worth and not just
was lucky so I’m
thing. He had Influx Datum down to play last week.
a load of gibberish. It’s all very well wanting to be
respected for your efforts but I don’t want acclaim
not going to start
WHAT’S THE D&B SCENE LIKE IN VIENNA?
I don’t deserve - you can’t phrase the name until banging out vocal
It’s growing at the moment and the vibe at the clubs is always really good. Production-wise, there aren’t many
you raise your game.” tracks just to
of us. I record with Rawful as Illskillz. Then there’s Konrad, Hard Drive, Rob Stefan and DJ Shroombab but
strike while the
most of the producers I work with are based in London.
Fame, it seems, can wait, as can new material from
irons hot.”
Stamina. “To have my first record be as successful NEVER TEMPTED TO MOVE TO LONDON?
as ‘LK’ doesn’t happen to a lot of people but that London is an interesting city but it’s very stressful. Vienna’s a quiet town, there’s no stress or crime or traffic.
doesn’t make me an artist. I was lucky so I’m not It’s a lot cheaper too and there’s a lot more sun and wind. I really like wind. I like the sound it makes.
going to start banging out vocal tracks just to strike
while the irons hot. If I just went and did an album SO THAT’S A NO THEN! HOW DID ‘BARCELONA’ COME ABOUT?
now it would probably be crap. But if I wait and It was winter and we wanted to make a sunny tune. We didn’t set out to write a guitar influenced vocal track
come with something good later people are still that everyone would like. We just sat down last February and a couple of hours later it was done. I gave it
going to be into it. It will happen whether they’re Alphamagic first, who passed it onto Grooverider. He played it on Radio 1 and overnight everyone was into it.
waiting for it or not. I’ve got no plans. I’m just going Then Fresh rang. It was a total surprise because it’s this mellow tune and he’s the riff master.
to see what happens and take in some vibes.”| œ
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