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Ruf Kutz reaches release twenty-two with something close to heart...

Mike Kee is a face from the early days - red-lit rooms of the Bodega mushroom squat parties in Sydney. This is a second release for Mike Kee on Ruf Kutz since 'Seeing Crystals' on RK2 in 2010.
Recorded in the rainforests of Bundjalung Country (northern NSW, Australia). Making good use of a Fender Rhodes and a JX-8P synthesiser.

"White Cloud Place" is a destination that doesn't exist. Glimpsed once on a street sign, filed away in the imagination and allowed to bloom into an imagined geography of warmth and weightlessness.
The music is lush dream house that elicits euphoria out of the speakers and into the body. Mike Kee has been chasing this feeling across his music and here it lands cleanly.

Flip the record and the temperature ratchets up. "Banana Moon" is one for the dancers - shuffling congas push the pace while Rhodes chords and those big analog synth strings hold the whole thing aloft.

Where the A-side invites you to float, "Banana Moon" keeps it pitched up and jazzy.

STAFF COMMENTS

Matt says: New Ruf Kutz on a bit of a rainforest house / SUED-esque tip from early RK affiliate Mike Kee (yes gee!). While "Banana Moon" sees that classic bustling percussion section drum machine made famous by Dresvn max'd out big time; "White Cloud Place" pairs cushion soft drums with dreamy arps and atmospheres to create a subtly chakra aligning and spirit elevating moment to drift on into dancefloor ecstasy.

TRACK LISTING

A. Banana Moon
B. White Cloud Place