LHF

Dusk and Blackdown’s Keysound Recordings has straight set the tone since 2005, with 12”s by and featuring Burial, Skream, Zomby, Starkey, Wiley, Zed Bias, Steve Gurley, DVA, Kowton, Grevious Angel, Trim and more in their expansive vault.

In 2011 they struck the rich seam which bore extensively-praised albums by LV & Joshua Idehen, Sully, and Damu, each contributing to the imprint being nominated for 2011 Label of the Year laurels by XLR8R, DJ Magazine, FACT, and the Dubstep Forum Awards. Accelerating into 2012, Keysound now present the long-awaited debut album by LHF, ‘Keepers Of The Light’. LHF are a shadowy, indistinct collective and, even to their label, not much about their existence is clear; confusion and deception are their modes of normality.

If people know what “LHF” actually stands for, no-one is saying - at least, not publicly. There are no photographic images of LHF’s personel, and it is unlikely there ever will be. LHF coalesced over five years ago, achieving dense form around Amen Ra, Double Helix, No Fixed Abode, Low Density Matter, Octaviour, Escobar Seasons, Solar Man and Lumin Project. Exhale acts as events and communications lieutenant for the clan. Members are at home in London, Mumbai, LA, Rio, and New York, while simultaneously heading out into the near reaches of the cosmos or back into the distant fading light of the past. It is unknown whether there are multiple players behind each recording persona, or whether certain actors individually play several parts.

In investigating LHF, you will encounter a web of ghostly MySpace pages, virtual-world echoes, and other intergalactic debris fields that form circular dead ends, like a labyrinth with no entrance or exit. LHF is the iconic Moebius Strip made sonically manifest, an infinite slope of recurring sound that has never started and will never end, absorbed into its own self-generated stellar context. When any clan member plays selector in the dance, they take with them “The Stack”, a half-foot-tall spindle of unmarked CDRs that archives obscure dubs like growth rings in an ancient Sequoia trunk. A tiny proportion of these tracks make up scenes in the heroic two-disc saga that is ‘Keepers Of The Light’. Sequenced like a DNA strand, the twin tracklists of ‘Keepers Of The Light’ entwine each other like a double helix, maintaining a discreet distance as constant as their proximity, while their twists and turns act to blueprint newly emergent audio lifeforms.