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Leo Kalyan

Friday, March 18
11:00PM - 11:40PM

3TEN Austin City Limits Live
310 Willie Nelson Blvd Ste 1A

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Two years ago, London-based Leo Kalyan uploaded a refix of Duke Dumont's

"Need U (100%)" and Jessie Ware's "Running" to Soundcloud. Anchored

around his own delicate vocals, it appeared online for the purest of reasons;

because making it was fun and it was the result of Kalyan teaching himself to

produce. Notoriety soon followed with a number of blogs picking up on the

then unknown artist/producer, leading to him topping the HypeMachine chart.

This sense of organically letting things take shape has permeated the self-

styled “oceanic beats” that Kalyan has made since: from the percolating

electro-soul of "Temptation" (his first original song), to the stuttering majesty

of the Karma Kid and MNEK collaboration "Over You” - supported by Annie

Mac, MistaJam and Huw Stephens amongst others - to the recently released

Silver Linings EP which featured lead track "Fingertips" reaching the to...

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