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Cosmicleaf Records series’ next guest is Denny Kay a.k.a. IN’R’VOICE.
Denny Kay (a.k.a. Den Kozlov) began his music career in Moscow, the capital of Russia. In the late 80s he was a follower of the classic industrial bands like Skinny Puppy, Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb. Very few people knew about this music behind the Iron Curtain in Communist Russia of that time. Driven by the innovative sound of industrial music, Denny began to experiment with whatever analogue synthesizers he could find in the recording studios of Soviet Moscow. In 1992 he recorded his first tracks in the studio ‘Tandem’ – which recorded mainly pop musicians, but had very enthusiastic sound engineers. Together they developed the sound of Denny’s project Inner Resonance Voice (In’R’Voice).
1994 In’R’Voice became hugely popular on Moscow’s main radio station Maximum, and in a fast growing amount of nightclubs. A year later he received an award for Innovations In Music from the Ministry of Culture of Russia. Until now this is the only award for Underground Electronic Music in Russian Federation.
1996 Den visited London, at that time the world’s capital of Electronic Music. He witnessed the very first events of just-born trance music held by the legendary Transient Records (Otherworld party), the label Return To The Source (at the Fridge nightclub) and the party collective ‘Pagan’ with Mark Allen (part of Matsuri Productions, with Tsuyoshi Suzuki). He met the key masters of the new trend, and recorded collaboration tracks with the superstars of the genre – such as Tim Healey (Quirk/Coburn) and Seb Taylor (Shakta/Kaya Project/Hibernation). To break the Iron Curtain, Denny helped to organise concerts in Moscow for the leading trance projects like Shakta, Slide, Quirk, and DJs like Baraka, John Phantasm, Mike McGuire (Juno Reactor), Chris Organic etc.
1999 Den relocated to London, bringing his music to the worldwide Electronic Music scene, playing alongside James Monro, Blue Planet Corporation, Tim Schuldt, Infected Mushroom, Bumbling Loons, Shakta, Hux Flux and many more. The first full album on Optica Records In’R’Voice & ‘Resonance Metaphizix’ was mastered at the famous Abbey Road Studios in London.
After 2004, Denny began to experiment with other styles of music, and his explorations gave birth to several cult Electronica albums like ‘Digital Shamanism’ on London’s Optica Records, ‘The Scent Of Russian Dreams’ on Sphere Records and collaboration with Grammy nominee jazz vocalist Samantha Farrell – ‘Inexplicable Premonitions’ (as Den Kozlov) at System Recordings in New York, USA.
2008 Denny founded his own multigenre record label Kissthesound Records (kissthesound.com), and Techno labels Axiomatic Records (axiomatic-records.com) and Ubertrend Records (ubertrend-records.tech) for Dub Techno and Deep Techno music. Denny’s famous Spiral Starship Studio is located within 100metres from Abbey Road Studios in London, where he produces a constantly growing massive collection of records, which now number over 50 in 20 years, with near 200 publications of his music overall.
Released on following Labels: System Recordings (USA), Spiral Traxx (Germany), Dragonfly Records (UK), Jumpin’ and Pumpin’ (UK) , Passion Music (UK), Sphere Records (UK) , Optica Records (UK), Distance Records (EU), Return To The Sourse (UK), Kukomi (UK), Shum Records (RU), RMG Records (RU), Arkona Creation (UK), Sun Station (RU), Vertigo Records (RU), Zenzontle Records (Canada), The Urban Sound (UK), Real Records (RU), Yellow Sunshine Explosion (EU), Rumour Records (UK), Resonoise Records (UK), Sangoma Records (Germany), Parvati Records (DK), Reflekta (EU), Distance Records (EU), Bamba Records (Germany), Obo&Hobos (RU), Sonic Tantra Records (EU), Kissthesound Records (UK), Axiomatic Records (UK)
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