Artist
Keith Dobson
36 releases · 55 collaborators · 18 labels
- Real name
- Keith Henry Dobson
- Date active
- 1982 – 2021
- Relevance
- High, strong ties with the core dub techno cluster
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Bio
English musician and founder of the labels Fuck Off Records (2) and Free Love Records.
Born: November 19, 1956
Died: July 13, 2025
He started as a drummer (using the pseudonym Kif Kif Le Batteur) in the psychedelic / space rock band Here & Now, which was formed in 1974. In 1979 and 1985 respectively Dobson formed the industrial / punk bands The 012 and World Domination Enterprises, in which he played the guitar.
“There is no real difference between hippy and punk” Dobson has stated. “They were both essentially about youth wising up to the charade of society being played out around them and reacting to it. There is also a lot of the essence of improvisation in World Dom and The 012. That ‘immediacy of the moment’ was something I worked with very consciously, and in a way it was a continuation of what had started in Here & Now. I wanted to take this ‘moment’ thing up to another level.”
Born: November 19, 1956
Died: July 13, 2025
He started as a drummer (using the pseudonym Kif Kif Le Batteur) in the psychedelic / space rock band Here & Now, which was formed in 1974. In 1979 and 1985 respectively Dobson formed the industrial / punk bands The 012 and World Domination Enterprises, in which he played the guitar.
“There is no real difference between hippy and punk” Dobson has stated. “They were both essentially about youth wising up to the charade of society being played out around them and reacting to it. There is also a lot of the essence of improvisation in World Dom and The 012. That ‘immediacy of the moment’ was something I worked with very consciously, and in a way it was a continuation of what had started in Here & Now. I wanted to take this ‘moment’ thing up to another level.”
Also known as
Member of
World Domination Enterprises
33
Ici Maintenants
2
Planet Gong (2)
The Sell-Outs
The 012
Here & Now (3)
The Love Bringers
Keith Dobson (Artist)
Label
Relevance
Releases
Active
- Releases: 2 Relevance: very high Active: 1983
- Releases: 1 Relevance: very high Active: 2019
- Releases: 8 Relevance: medium Active: 1986 – 1988
- Releases: 3 Relevance: medium Active: 1996 – 1997
- Releases: 3 Relevance: medium Active: 1996
- Releases: 2 Relevance: medium Active: 1988
- Releases: 4 Relevance: low Active: 2020 – 2021
- Releases: 2 Relevance: low Active: 1988
- Releases: 2 Relevance: low Active: 2009 – 2012
- Releases: 2 Relevance: low Active: 1996 – 1997
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1983
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1989
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1983
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 1988
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2013
- Releases: 1 Relevance: low Active: 2004
- Releases: 2 Relevance: extremely low Active: 1982
- Releases: 1 Relevance: extremely low Active: 2020