John Kelley - A Night in the Park

Don't let the title fool you. It's not the type of music you would listen to while taking a romantic stroll through the park at night with your beloved, holding hands, watching the stars glittering above. This is an intense, gritty, uncompromising hybrid of breakbeat and techno that seems more suited for the soundtrack of a high-speed police chase through the shadowy backstreets of Los Angeles. John Kelley, the legendary pioneer of West Coast breakbeat, has returned to the scene with his debut artist album "A Night in the Park".

"A stellar artist debut from west coast breaks pioneer John Kelley...Check it out!"
- The Crystal Method

Don't let the title fool you. It's not the type of music you would listen to while taking a romantic stroll through the park at night with your beloved, holding hands, watching the stars glittering above. This is an intense, gritty, uncompromising hybrid of breakbeat and techno that seems more suited for the soundtrack of a high-speed police chase through the shadowy backstreets of Los Angeles. John Kelley, the legendary pioneer of West Coast breakbeat, has returned to the scene with his debut artist album "A Night in the Park".

The artist best known for his sets at Moontribe's Full Moon Gatherings, the legendary California desert raves, LA native Kelley has amassed an enormous fan base from a decade of touring and selling over 100,000 cds. His latest work of art, "A Night in the Park", has been praised by beatmasters The Crystal Method as "a stellar artist debut from the west coast breaks pioneer". Clearly, this new chapter of Kelley's career has transformed him from renowned DJ to producer on the forefront of the electronic music scene.

The first track on the album, conveniently titled "A Night in the Park", quickly explodes into a spinning cocktail of electro-tinged techno funk. As the album progresses along, the sounds range from the chunky house rhythms of "Fat Stacks" to the hip-hop inspired turntablism of "Funkasaurus". Breaking things down on the final track, the hypnotic groove of "Chopstix" almost seems to emerge from the speakers, pulsating and rotating through the listener's ear canals until it retreats back into the dark, edgy depths of "the Park".

Armed with a sound that has been described as everything from tribal to techno funk, John Kelley has proven himself to be the leader of American breakbeat techno. Kelley and co-producers, Moontribe DJ Brian Seed, Brian Saitzyk and Simply Jeff, have put together a journey of an album - a range of sounds and speeds that come together in a whirlwind of flawless electronic music. The only question is, are you up for the ride?