Key4050 Drops "Tales From The Temple" After 16 Years In The Making

Number of Key4050 tracks within the public area in December 2018: zero. Number by February of this 12 months… 32. How so? Well, in a single kind or one other, they’ve been in manufacturing for sixteen years.

As lots of the world’s really excellent golf equipment have a behavior of doing, Dublin’s the Temple Theatre turned a lightning rod for embryonic digital music expertise. Post-millennium, it acted as a beacon for a brand new rising wave of Irish DJs, who – congregating within the former church’s Space and Crypt clubfloors, have been musically schooled by a succession of famous person DJs.

A temple in each sense, it was there in 2002 that the paths of native Dublin lad Bryan Kearney and John O’Callaghan from up the street in Navan, first crossed. An on the spot musical connection made, afterhours the pair would recurrently head to John’s makeshift studio at his condominium within the metropolis’s south internal metropolis.

To achieve entry to that condominium complicated, a gate code was required. That code was Key4050.

Key4050’s musical lineage was influenced by a variety of producers, however none extra so although than Mauro Picotto and his inimitable BXR sound. “Like a god” is how John describes the genre-fusing Italian and his productions have been recurrently dissected by the duo within the post-Temple hours.

In 2003, on the peak of the Temple’s success (“the very best clubbing experiences of my life” attests O’Callaghan), restoration prices calamitously pushed it into closure. Whilst mourning its loss, conversely it additionally spurred an impetus in a brand new wave of rising DJ/producers. They went on to recast Irish digital music in their very own picture.

With the membership taking part in essentially the most basic of elements in fomenting their careers, John and Bryan lengthy seemed for a solution to pay dues to it. The answer lay on laborious drives, some relationship again properly over a decade. There, amongst dozens upon dozens of demos, concepts, half-completes and all-but-there works lay the musical essence of their Temple experiences. So Bryan and John went to work ending a job that – on the time – they didn’t even know they’d begun.