In the little town of Funkadelicville, just a few degrees south of the Arctic Circle, Kissey Asplund packed just her pink bird earring and her Kisseycoloured pumps and set off on her SomeWhatStrange adventures. Riding in her funk-buggy, the first port of call was Amsterdam where she connected with soundscientists O Boogie, Sotu and Nalden. Like a 21st century Jason and his Argonauts, Kissey was collecting the most swarthy and hench beatmakers for her funky space mission – to slay Lord Darkness and repopulate the galaxy with soul flowers.

In France she stayed with the Papa Jazz swordsmen and slung down ‘I Would Do’ and ‘Entrapped’ onto tape; in the UK it was the turn of the Kid Kanevil and Andreya Triana who taught Kissey a lesson in time manipulation; in California she chilled with the hooded Blackmonk in Pasadena, and impressed people like Take and Ras G when she grabbed the mic and started casting powerful spells over a SIDplayer beat.

“It’s addictive to sing on a beat and feel that you nail it. It makes your chest all warm and your body vibrate as if your body’s extended and melting into floors and oxygen. It’s sick I tell you… it’s like standing on a hill and screaming …imagine all the energy but none of the exhaustion,” says Kissey.

Having completed her intensive training, Kissey was now prepared for battle. So when she encountered the Lord Darkness, the destroyer of worlds, in the dusty Texas desert, all Kissey had to do was use her new powers. Wearing silver-metallic leggings, silver-metallic jacket and a motorcycle helmet on her head, when Kissey opened her mouth and began to sing, the music was too sweet for the ears of Lord Darkness who transubstantiated into a beetle and scuttled away.

Some of Kissey’s sonic experiments have already landed their way onto vinyl, and now with the arrival of her Plethora long-player for R2, like a meeting between Sy Smith’s Syberspace Social and the lost beat tapes of A Touch of Jazz, the first chapter in the Kissey saga is drawing to a close. The battle may be won for now, but the road ahead is long and peppered with obstacles. Where will she be called next? Will Lord Darkness be so easily defeated next time around? And will she be able to harness the powers of the pink bird earring? Find out in the next episode of the Somewhat Strange Life of Kissey Asplund.

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PLETHORA LP (R2 Records)
MOVE ME/99BOTTLES 7” (Recordbreakin’)
BLACKMONK 7” (Poo-Bah records)