Introduce Yourself: Kenton Slash Demon (& Free Download)

Kenton Slash Demon are Silas Moldenhawer and Jonas Kenton: a delectable Danish disco duo set to make waves in the house scene with their trilogy of back to back releases. The ‘Sun EP’ was released not so long ago back in July, with ‘Matter’ and ‘Daemon’ fast on its tail.

What’s so impressive about these two, is that since their first EP in 2006, their output has been relatively low yet they’ve still managed to establish a name for themselves as one of the most innovative production duos in contemporary house music. The ‘Khattabi EP’, put out last year, earned them this fantastic reputation for originality, with support for the EP coming in the form of Dirtybird label honcho, Claude Von Stroke, the mighty Luciano as well as other forward thinking electronic dance producers including The Martin Brothers.

The Sun EP picks up where Khattabi left off, incorporating the same accomplished organic and futuristic sound as displayed on their previous productions, with a bolder new focus on solid disco house grooves. It’s fun, enthralling and complex dance music, oozing with maturity and intelligence, with enough simplicity and assurance around the central house beats to get you moving uncontrollably.



The Kenton Slash boys took some time out of their busy studio schedule to indulge us a little more about their new releases, their studio setup and their overall vibe:

For those who may not know, what's your background in dance music?

We started messing around with different music software at the age of 15. Our first EP was released in 2006. We’ve been experimenting in all kind of genres, but we always seem to return to making club tracks.

We’re also one half of an indie-electronica band called When Saints Go Machine.

Which instruments do each of you two play?

Jonas plays the keys, and I the drums. I can play a few chords on a guitar too, but it's nothing I would brag about.

Your music has a very organic feel to it, focusing on the use of live instruments rather than heavy synthesis, do you record most of the sounds live in the studio or rely on sampling?

We love to use samples and it's always been a big part of our sound. Some of the samples are from recordings from old sessions but most of them come from various LPs and different sample banks.

What's your favorite piece of studio equipment?

We have a lot of old analog gear, which we love, but the piece that means the most to us is our G5 Power PC. It's been with us almost five years now and it still runs nicely.

The Sun EP has a different, more disco-focused sound from Khattabi EP, which was much more focused on incorporating elements of world music into your sound, what influences the varying sounds on each of your tracks?

'Khattabi' EP was created rather quickly. The inspiration actually came from what was going on in the house scene at that particular time. Listening to the new more percussive house that was coming out and especially after hearing Ricardo Villalobos play. That really inspired us. ‘Enfant’ is a big, big track!

On 'Sun' we wanted to create a slow track that you could listen to at home but that would also still be banging in a club. We work a lot on making the sound ours and create something we could build up on; An indicator of what you can expect from us in the future, if you will.

What’s the track that you’re most proud of so far?

We love 'Sun'. We think it's our best track to date, until 'Matter' drops of course. It turned out exactly as we hoped. We’re very proud of it.

You're music is often heavily layered. Do you ever think about recreating your records live onstage?

Right now we want to keep the live shows with just electronics. There are a lot of different ways you can go about an electronic performances. The experience can be just as organic as hearing a band play, in our opinion. We want to loose control over the electronic equipment when we play and focus on the moment so every performance can be different from each other.

What's the future for Kenton Slash Demon?

‘The Schwarzschild Solution’ part 2 and 3 entitled “Matter” and “Daemon”. And we want to produce and release much more music, a full-length album at some point and of course play a lot of shows.

Cheers guys.

So there you have it. Words from the horses mouths, these chaps certainly aren’t slowing down and with 2 more hot follow-up releases in the pipeline, it’s time to get excited about Kenton Slash Demon. To help you do just that, we’ve wrestled a copy of the Portable Remix of ‘Sun’ off of the Demons and are giving it away for free to you lucky lovelies.

Download: Sun - Portable (AKA. Bodycode) Remix’ by Kenton Slash Demon