Rob Base x Rampage - It Takes Two (Black Dominoes Blend)

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This is the first teaser track from out new label PHOENIX RECORDS and it’s from one of our new fresh to death artist’s BLACK DOMINOES have a listen and read more about him in the interview  below. Look for his debut album in the fall and go see him live at the ESPERANZA show with B.O.B coming soon in ATL….

Black Dominoes  puts in work…

Kellen Crosby aka the music producer/recorder/remixer/DJ ‘Black Dominoes’ has been in Atlanta since the age of five-

his mother lives in north Atlanta and his father lives in Cabbagetown.

He’s done gigs with Klever, Flosstradamus, Diplo, and many others, and is currently working on a bevy of originals and remixes

for future release. You can catch him recording tunes in his bedroom and kicking it with the 4th Ward Heroes

at their studio on John Wesley Dobbs…and riding his bike all over town. He just designed a bunch of T-shirts for ATL

peoples ESPERANZA (www.esperanza-atl.com.)

He only stepped behind the decks and started messing with music for the first time a year and a half ago, but his first remix

(of Vampire Weekend’s ‘Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa’) rose from the internet

to gain spins on BBC Radio 1 and NPR in the States.

His second remix (of Fleet Foxes’ ‘White Winter Hymnal’) was reviewed

by Rolling Stone.

His latest remix is for the Boston band Passion Pit’s single ‘The Reeling,’

recorded with a mixture of analog and digital sounds in Atlanta’s 4th Ward.

ZONE3 caught up with him at Octane for a minute to ask him about how he got caught up into all this.

Kellen aka b.dominoes

“It was weird, man. I studied political science and philosophy in undergrad but I hated law school.

What happened was I was out in LA with like no money and no car for a year. On weekends i ended up always taking this train

into the middle of the city and crashing at my baby brother’s place on Cahuenga.”

“I would basically just ride my bike around town and see what I could get into. I would go to the Smell, which was kind of like

what the Eyedrum is here—a small nonprofit arty spot for weird noise bands. I would go see the L.A. Philharmonic by myself and then

ride over there or go scam my way into some swanky club.”

“Then Daft Punk played at Coachella. Before that every DJ in LA was playing mash-ups and hip-hop.

After that, Steve (Aoki) and Frankie (Chan, of iheartcomix) started doing all-electronic DJ sets and it got really popular.”

“I found out I hated law school and I wasnt good at it. I moved back to Atlanta and was doing construction 2 years ago when I saw Diplo DJ

at the Drunken Unicorn. I had been a record collector for a minute and Bean from Lennys had asked me to start coming in on Saturdays and spinning.”

“I had never DJ’d before and surely I sucked, but I didn’t care. It was fun and it kind of grew from there.”

“Now i’ve done over 100 gigs—-but I still have a lot to learn.”

“The last couple months I’ve really been into recording original stuff and doing remixes and stuff. I’ve been running stuff by a lot of people

I know that know what they’re doing—guys like Billy (Captain Crunk) and Adam Trimble and Bradley O, who are the two best sound engineer dudes I know.”

“Now I’m excited that people all over the world are dowloading stuff that I made here. I’m really interested to see where all this goes.”

above photo by Chris Merkle aka the Midnight Socialite