Many will best recognise him for his solo work, or his smartly cultivated production/vocal team-ups – ones that have brought a convoy of floorward-thinking anthems and future classics to fans. Notably among them have been two ASOT Tunes of The Year (most recently with 2022’s Plumb-sung ‘Take This’).
Under his Karney mask, tech-infected numbers like ‘Snarl’, ‘Rumination’, ‘Smiler’ and ‘Compromise’ have served his darker, dirtier studio inclinations, finding set-favour with scene icons like Adam Beyer and others. Through their back-to-the-roots ‘Tales Of The Temple’ project and globe-circling shows, as Key4050, he and John O’Callaghan elevated the collaboration dynamic to an entirely new level.
However, it is as a standalone artist and mainstage operator that he’s today most swiftly recognised. He’s a DJ who can read an audience’s innermost desires at a thousand yards and hold them rapt in his palm for seven or more concert-performing hours.
Be it Kearney, Karney, Kearnage or Key4050, his position in electronic music’s hall of fame’s long since been secured … Find him there under ‘K’