Home Is Where House Is Playing 140 [Housepedia Podcasts] I K.Mo

Housepedia Podcasts #HomeIsWhereHouseIsPlaying 140 I K.Mo

As a teen in the late 80s, James Kumo’s world was opened up by Kiss 100FM - still a pirate station at the time. “I don’t know how I got to know about it, actually. It was probably through a friend or someone’s brother,” he recounts. Recording shows on cassette decks and envying the friends’ older brothers who were old enough to get into clubs, he was enthralled by the rhythms of dance music straight away.

Kumo ventured into production for the first time in 2007. Though still learning the ropes, he drew from his lifelong immersion in dance music and quickly landed on his feet; his first releases, Kumomusic Vols 1 and 2, appeared on the Delsin Records imprint Ann Aimee.

In more recent years, Kumo has introduced K.Mo, a new platform with which he explores deeper, more soulful house sounds. Under this alias, he released his first LP ‘Vision’ in 2020, followed by an impressive run of EPs. The Space Funk EP is the project’s latest showing, which features instrumental contributions from Byron the Aquarius, Tim Jules and Chris Bruining. All of this has been under the banner of Wayout Records, Kumo’s own label, which he envisions as a vessel for community and collaboration. “I want it to be not like a label who’s churning out music all the time, more of a collection of people making music we like,” he says. “More of a friendship group of sorts.

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