JODEY KENDRICK

This album is the accompaniment to Jodey’s other recent album, “Plus Ten”. Jodey Kendrick was born in York. He lived there until the age of eight, when his parents took over the running of a pub in the South East (UK).

As a child he would watch films with his Dad, always focusing on the music within them. Those that stood out most were Lalo Schifrin in Dirty Harry and John Carpenter’s work in his own films. During his adolescent years he was regularly in trouble with both his parents and the police for amongst other things motorbike theft and shooting out street lamps! It was at that time that he heard a mix tape which contained Stakker’s ‘Humanoid’ track. He was instantly intrigued not just by the sounds but how they were made. He got himself a Commodore 64 which he tinkered around with for a while before progressing onto an Amiga. He could no longer be bothered with going out and causing trouble, all he wanted to do was make music.

Starting work gave him the means to move onto sequencers and samplers, and in more recent years, analogue synths and computers. He won't however, be drawn into the analogue vs digital debate, in his eyes "it's all good".

Jodey has worked long hours for the last eight and a half years as a steel fabricator on some of London’s largest buildings but this hasn't stopped him from amassing a library of hundreds of tunes, a reflection of his passion and drive for music.

The early influences have already been mentioned, but another major factor in his addiction to music is when he heard a Ron Hardy mix for the first time - he was blown away, not just with the sounds but the sheer variation of them. He wanted to make music that provoked that same feeling in people.

Up until recently though, the only people to have heard Jodey's music were close friends and family. In fact, it was threatening words from his friends that persuaded him to put his music on the internet, which has subsequently provided him with the opportunity to play gigs and release his material on Rephlex. The label was amazed that how little classic Detroit and Chicago House & Techno Jodey was actually aware of, making the tracks he does; also knowing little of the label itself, it seems Mr Kendrick has been fighting his own unique corner, reinventing these genres for himself with a contemporary slant, striving for some solid, driving tunes to counter the hardbagcore of his native Dunstable.