Keith Mansfield - ContempoContempo is one of the best full album listens in the KPM 1000 library. Succinct smoking soul, super tight breaks and string drenched sleaze composed by the library master, Keith Mansfield. The creator of the romping tunes that became the iconic themes to the BBCs Grandstand programme and their televised Wimbledon Tennis Championship coverage, Keith Mansfield was perhaps KPMs most prolific artist from the mid 1960s right the way through the 1980s. As

soul and R&B acts-Shabaka Hutchings

A truly visionary artist who worked and studied with John Cage

is a Jazzy Deep House cut filled with guitar riffs that intertwine with an organ theme

his ‘Ugly Edit’ of Made In USA - Never Gonna Let You Go

And this could fit

stripped back and reimagined version whose lithe

Dean Fraser on horns

and issued their 7inch "Itching / Get Down On It" in 2015

Its addressed to the clubs and night owls out there

"Constant Time"

and recently achieving silver certification in the UK

He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib solo album