Kuedo

Jamie Teasdale, working as British sound designer Kuedo, shapes expansive cinematic electronic music that balances 1980s film scores with present-day hip-hop and club textures. Initial prominence arrived as one half of Vex'd, whose abrasive mix of dub, hip-hop, and industrial noise left a lasting mark on both dubstep and grime. The duo’s first album, Degenerate, appeared on Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu in 2005 and became one of the label’s strongest commercial achievements. Following the group’s dissolution near 2008, Teasdale issued solo material under Dakimh and Jamie Vex’d before unveiling the Kuedo identity in 2010. Planet Mu released the debut EP Dream Sequence that same year, steering the sound toward abstract hip-hop laced with atmospheric layers comparable to Burial. The 2011 follow-up EP Videowave, containing remixes by Clark and Illum Sphere, preceded the first full-length Severant, which paired Vangelis-inspired grand, opulent electronics with rhythms drawn from trap and Chicago footwork. Critical praise for Severant ran high, establishing it as nearly as influential as Teasdale’s earlier Vex’d output. The 2012 EP Work, Live & Sleep in Collapsing Space arrived next, featuring remixes by Laurel Halo alongside Planet Mu labelmate Claude Speeed. In 2015, the newly launched Knives label and art imprint issued Assertion of a Surrounding Presence, which contained collaborations with Egyptrixx and former Vex’d partner Roly Porter. Kuedo appeared on Turkish producer Sami Baha’s debut EP Mavericks, released by Planet Mu in 2016, and later that year the label delivered the long-awaited second album Slow Knife.