History
Together with Hive and Shaggy, Daddy Kev founded Celestial Recordings in 1998. The label's early records included Phoenix Orion's album Zimulated Experiencez and the compilation Celestial Squadron. Daddy Kev also produced records by Naptron and Alien Nation, most of the songs characterized by fusing rap with sci-fi samples. His work with Awol One on Souldoubt in 2001 saw Daddy Kev return to a more conventional underground hip hop context. During this era, he contributed to a number of genre-defining records including Sole's Bottle of Humans, Myka 9's Timetable, Abstract Rude's P.A.I.N.T., Prefuse 73's Vocal Studies + Uprock Narratives and Nobody's Soulmates.
Although Celestial Recordings folded in early 2002, Daddy Kev stayed in Los Angeles to produce and engineer numerous albums including Busdriver's Temporary Forever, D-Styles' Phantazmagorea, Awol One's Slanguage, The Grouch's Sound Advice and Existereo's Dirty Deeds & Dead Flowers.
2004 brought Busdriver's Cosmic Cleavage. The album is produced entirely by Daddy Kev and released on Big Dada. In the same year, he began work on Mix Master Mike's album Bangzilla. Upon the conclusion of work on Bangzilla, Daddy Kev hatched a plan with business manager Danyell Jariel to start a new record label Alpha Pup Records. By the end of 2004, the label was formed. Daddy Kev began mixing Paris Zax's Unpath'd Waters, which is the label's first release.
In 2005, Alpha Pup Records quickly hit its stride, releasing Unpath'd Waters to critical acclaim, as well as offerings from Mike Boo, Ricci Rucker, Blackbird and Awol One. In 2006, Daddy Kev served as executive producer on albums for Subtitle, Daedelus, Scream Club and Acid Reign, all released on Alpha Pup Records. He also returned to the studio with Busdriver to mix and record tracks for RoadKillOvercoat released on Epitaph Records in 2007.
Reefer, a collaborative group with Nicholas Thorburn of Islands, was announced on the Alpha Pup Records website in 2007. A flyer depicting coral reefs was displayed on Daddy Kev's MySpace page with the roman numerals of 2008 underneath.
Alpha Pup Records also distributes Flying Lotus' label Brainfeeder.
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