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Time in Body & This Combobulation Association team up to present This Body Time Combobulation. Tickets live now on RA 🖤

Happening in Dublin's most punkest venue, Mono's Bar in Dalymount. We are absolutely stoked with the line up for this one. It's going to be another epic night in Bohs.

Featuring:
ZKELLIES (Live) (APT Records)
Maeve O'Neill
Richard B. (Industrial Lies)

ZKELLIES
ZKELLIES perform live techno played by hand & foot. It is music for dancing.

The ZKELLIES show is an attempt to perform techno music according to Steve Reich's principle of "no hidden structural devices". To this end, ZKELLIES utilise no backing tracks. No sequencers. No click track.

Longtime Irish underground music stalwart Andy Connolly (Naive Ted, Unscene) has enlisted the renowned pair of Dan Walsh (Fixity) & Killian Barton (Bill Karnation) to create a series of short musical phrases designed to be played by two drummers, moving between these phrases in the same way as a DJ builds a set, performing a perceived "faithful" version of loop-based, dancefloor focussed, techno music.

This particular strand of techno is traditionally created with sequencers controlling synthesizers & samplers. ZKELLIES is an attempt to take the sequencer out of the equation.

Though the music is semi-improvised & experimental in nature, there is no wish to subvert the norms of the techno space, only a desire to perform the music respectfully & in a different way.

It is music for dancing.

Maeve O'Neill
Renowned Irish electronic DJ known for relentless energy, hypnotic rhythms and expert use of acid lines. Has shared lineups with Eliza, Lolz, Gesloten Cirkel and ELLLL.

Richard B
30 years in electronic music, including 20+ years as techno editor at DJ Mag. Founder of First Cut and Industrial Lies. His vinyl sets range from new wave and Italo disco to jacking acid and raw Hague bangers. by @zkellies

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8 days ago

Hitting the road in the next few weeks.

30.10 Ennistymon @potduggans
7.11 Galway @goingcoastal.ie @bierhausgalway
13.11 Dublin @thiscombobulationassociation @timeinbody

Tickets for Ennistymon & Dublin on sale now, Galway show is free. by @zkellies

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10 days ago

Time in Body & This Combobulation Association team up to present This Body Time Combobulation in Dublin's most punkest venue, Mono's Bar in Dalymount. We are absolutely stoked with the line up for this one. It's going to be another epic night in Bohs. Tickets live now on RA 🖤

Featuring:
ZKELLIES (Live) (APT Records)
Maeve O'Neill
Richard B. (Industrial Lies)

ZKELLIES
ZKELLIES perform live techno played by hand & foot. It is music for dancing.

The ZKELLIES show is an attempt to perform techno music according to Steve Reich's principle of "no hidden structural devices". To this end, ZKELLIES utilise no backing tracks. No sequencers. No click track.

Longtime Irish underground music stalwart Andy Connolly (Naive Ted, Unscene) has enlisted the renowned pair of Dan Walsh (Fixity) & Killian Barton (Bill Karnation) to create a series of short musical phrases designed to be played by two drummers, moving between these phrases in the same way as a DJ builds a set, performing a perceived "faithful" version of loop-based, dancefloor focussed, techno music.

This particular strand of techno is traditionally created with sequencers controlling synthesizers & samplers. ZKELLIES is an attempt to take the sequencer out of the equation.

Though the music is semi-improvised & experimental in nature, there is no wish to subvert the norms of the techno space, only a desire to perform the music respectfully & in a different way.

It is music for dancing.

Maeve O'Neill
Renowned Irish electronic DJ known for relentless energy, hypnotic rhythms and expert use of acid lines. Has shared lineups with Eliza, Lolz, Gesloten Cirkel and ELLLL.

Richard B
30 years in electronic music, including 20+ years as techno editor at DJ Mag. Founder of First Cut and Industrial Lies. His vinyl sets range from new wave and Italo disco to jacking acid and raw Hague bangers.

Poster designed by @c_o_connell at @brassneckpress by @zkellies

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12 days ago

GALWAY! We're coming to play the same thing over and over down in @bierhausgalway next month for @goingcoastal.ie festival! The idol @jimmythehideouspenguin on the bill too along with a special ZKLS DJ set from @andy_connolly_music !

Keep your phones in your pocket and have a dance like.
Sound. by @zkellies

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14 days ago

KEEP IT TO YOURSELF

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COMING SOON

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ORIGINAL DANCE BY @dezirealopez

#electro
#techno by @zkellies

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25 days ago

"Deadly Seven" WIP.

No backing track. No sequencer. No click track.

Readying ourselves for another excursion to the real world.

#electro
#techno
#live
#norddrum3p
#spdsx by @zkellies

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a month ago

Out n about (redux cos the boss got the Dublin date wrong...).

Ennistymon in @potduggans details already announced, Dublin and Galway to follow...

@andy_connolly_music
@danwalshdoesdrum
@bill_karnation by @zkellies

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a month ago

06.11 | @zkellies are on support for our night in @buttonfactorydub with @james__holden & @zimpelwaclaw⁠
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Homegrown talents with big energy, Zkellies bring a raw and driving form of live techno - all played by hand + foot.⁠
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Formed by long-time Irish underground figure @andy_connolly_music (Naive Ted, Unscene) alongside @danwalshdoesdrum (Fixity) and @bill_karnation (Killian Barton), their show's focus on creating a living, breathing dancefloor journey.⁠
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The result is raw, unpredictable, and deeply physical: a live, human take on loop-based techno, made for moving bodies in a completely new way.⁠
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We're excited to see the guys set the scene for our evening on support. ⁠
Swipe over to get a taster of what to expect. ⁠
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You can grab a ticket now - link is available in our bio⁠
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HB x by @zkellies

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a year ago

Gettin the reps in, out east in November supporting James Holden & Waclaw Zimpel in Button Factory for @homebeatmusic !

Tickets on sale Friday. by @zkellies

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a year ago

Excerpt from "Bati Bati/E10", live at @feilenagreine 2025. by @zkellies

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a year ago

Thank you so much for having us @feilenagreine .
Thanks to all who danced with us.

Track ID "Joey's Going Places", unreleased.

📸 @aideen_______ by @zkellies

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a year ago

Tullamore next month for the mighty @get.ta.france by @zkellies

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a year ago