2010
Kilowatts And Vanek
About five years ago, Keith Shogun sent me a track by the duo known as Kilowatts and Vanek titled “Lies.” The moment I began to listen to the track, I was struck with awe. Since then, it has been a needle lost in a 60GB haystack of music. The other night, as I was going through all of my music in search of some sort of nostalgic feeling, I came across this track again and decided to give it another listen. The feeling was refreshing and remembering how they collaborated was a spark of inspiration.
Kilowatts, or Jamie Watts is from Philadelphia, and Vanek, or Peter Van Ewijk is from Belgium. They met each over the internet through a music forum years ago. They shared files of their productions and eventually began recording a couple of tracks together… all over the internet! Finally, after many months, they met in person after a fan requested that they both play a couple of shows as a duo in Germany.
How incredibly neat is that?
Last night, I decided to do some extra research on the interweb to find out if they ever pursued their project, and low and behold, they have released two albums! The first one titled “Rawq” and the other “Focus And Flow.” It’s always exciting for me to find new music. Especially now, since I am starting to feel a little jaded with all of the new rock music sounding mediocre at best.
Kilowatts and Vanek – Lies
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