The lengthy awaited album from Key4050, the duo of tech-trance icons Bryan Kearney and John O’Callaghan, lastly dropped and to say it was definitely worth the wait could be an understatement.
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Tales From The Temple, launched on Black Hole Recordings, is the primary album from the Irish duo and options a wide range of sounds that span the trance and techno genres.
The large 32-track album was launched a whopping three years after they first introduced the Key4050 moniker with Gianfranco. Keeping followers on their toes, a yr and a half later Key4050 made their stay debut at Dreamstate
SoCal in 2017. Their high-energy set was stuffed with each onerous techy sounds and melodic uplifting tracks. This was an enormous tease for followers, as most of those tracks remained IDs till the day the album dropped. Kearney and O’Callaghan saved most points of their mission very tight-lipped; there have been no singles launched and solely a handful of competition units performed by Key4050 in 2018.Also premiering with the album is a 25-minute mini documentary which options the fellows visiting numerous spots in Ireland that had an affect on their music. The most vital one is the Temple Theatre, a former nightclub in Ireland which Kearney calls “ probably the most influential constructing in my life.” JOC says it was “the beginning of an 18 yr journey in direction of this Key4050 album.” It solely appears becoming that their album will get its identify from such a spot. The membership, which closed its doorways in 2003, had an upstairs space referred to as The Space and a downstairs named The Crypt, which the 2 album discs are named after.
The documentary additionally solutions one burning query followers have had all alongside: Where does the identify Key4050 come from? Drumroll…. It’s the code to get into JOC’s condominium the place they made their first ever tracks collectively.
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Listen to Key4050´s Tales From The Temple:
The first disc, The Space, begins off with maybe the duo’s most recognizable tune – Beetlejuice. It does a fantastic job of getting the listener excited for what’s to come back. It’s fast-paced and techy with robotic vocals we’ll hear in a number of different tracks, together with the subsequent one, Wendle. Utterly Butterly is uplifting, lovely and a pleasant change of tempo because the 4th tune in. Anyone conversant in Kearney or JOC’s solo units will acknowledge Dinklebot. Quadruplets offers us a style of psytrance, peppered with the phrases “Key4050” over a really infectious beat that’s onerous to sit down nonetheless to. Closing out disc 1 is the emotional Otterfly. It’s the kind of tune that offers you a lot feels because the set or competition ends.
Luckily, we nonetheless have one other disc.
Disc 2 aka The Crypt begins off onerous with Irwin, a tune that makes you are feeling as when you’re embarking on a journey to someplace darkish and unknown. Appropriately titled, Take a Break sits proper in the course of the 16-tracks and permits us to do as its identify suggests. It begins off gradual and dreamy with a 2 minute construct to a sound we’re extra used to from these two. Finkle und Einhorn ideas its hat to Ace Ventura (the film, not the psytrance artist). The penultimate observe, Dickie Tummay feels like one thing out of a horror film (in one of the best ways). This darkish techy album ends on a lighter be aware with the ethereal observe Alka slowing it approach down. These two actually know the way to take their listeners on a journey.
Key4050 makes their Tomorrowland debut in July and have teased a present in Los Angeles this yr on Instagram.