Kwes Darko (born Kwesi Darko) is a British music composer/producer from

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, signed to Young Songs. He is best known for his work with UK rapper

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. Kwes Darko's first major exposure as a musician came in 2009, through his debut track, entitled "Space Ex", under the moniker "Blue Daisy", the track featured French singer LaNote and was named 'Best New Track' on Pitchfork.com. He released his debut album, ''The Sunday Gift'' in September 2011 to favourable reviews from

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and

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. His mixes have been featured in ''

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'' and '' Dazed & Confused''.

Discography

*''Space Ex'', Black Acre (2009) *''Strings Detached EP'', Black Acre (2009) *Blue Daisy vs TOKiMONSTA - ''USD / Free Dem'', Team Acre (2010) *Blue Daisy & Anneka - ''Raindrops EP'', Black Acre (2010) *''3rd Degree EP'', Black Acre (2011) *''The Sunday Gift'', Black Acre (2011) *Blue Daisy X Unknown Shapes - ''Bedtime Stories EP'', Black Acre (2012) *Blue Daisy Presents Dahlia Black - "Fuck A Rap Song" (2013) *Blue Daisy X Unknown Shapes - ''Used to Give a Fuck EP'', Black Acre (2013) *Tricky ft Blue Daisy - ''My Palestine girl 'single'', False Idols (2014) *Blue Daisy - ''Psychotic love EP'', 37 Adventures (2014) *Blue Daisy ''- Darker Than Blue'', R&S Records (2015) * Connie Constance - ''In the Grass EP'', Black Acre (2015) *Connie Constance - ''Answer,'' Black Acre (2015) * Stateless - ''Sixfold Symmetry EP'', Stateless (2015) *

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- ''Birds and the BEE9 'LP'', Big Dada (2017) *

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- ''Murder'', Bone soda (2017) *slowthai - ''I wish i knew EP,'' Bone Soda (2017) *slowthai - ''The Bottom/North Nights,'' Method ''(2018)'' *Harve - ''Caught up 'single'', Toyitoyi (2018) *Harve - reAD 'single, Toyitoyi (2018) *Harve - ''City scapes 'single'', Toyitoyi (2018) *slowthai - ''Ladies 'single'', Method (2018) *slowthai - ''Polaroid 'single'', Method (2018) *slowthai - ''Drug Dealer 'single'', Method (2018) *slowthai - ''Runt EP'', Method (2018) *slowthai - ''Rainbow 'single'', Method (2018) *slowthai - ''

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'LP'', Method (2019) *slowthai x

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- ''Psycho 'single,'' Toyitoyi (2019) *Sampa the Great - ''OMG 'single'', Ninja tune (2019) *

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- ''Rap As'' *''side 'single'', ADA (2019) * SL x

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- ''Hit The Block 'single,'' Virgin EMI (2020) *Footsie ft

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- ''Pepper stew 'single,'' Studio55 (2020) *Harve - ''Held by the Moon 'EP ,'' Mostly At Night (2020 *slowthai - ''Enemy 'single'', Method (2020) *slowthai - ''NHS 'single'', Method (2020) *slowthai ft

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- ''Mazza 'single'', Method (2021) *slowthai ft

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- ''Cancelled 'single'', Method (2021) *slowthai - '' Tyron 'LP'', Method (2021) * Gazo ft

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& Pa Salieu - ''Mon Cher 'single'', Epic Records (2021) *Denzel Curry ft

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- ''Bad Luck 'single'', Loma Vista Recordings (2021) *

Laylow Jeremy Larroux (born 1993), better known as Laylow is a French rapper from Toulouse. In 2018, Laylow released the EPs ''.RAW'' and ''RAW-Z''. His first album, ''Trinity'', featured collaborations with Lomepal, S.Pri Noir, Jok'Air, Wit., Alpha ...

ft slowthai - ''Fallen Angels 'single'', Digitalmundo (2021) *Denzel Curry ft PlayThatBoiZay - ''Let It All Hang Out 'single'', RCA Records (2022) *slowthai - ''I know nothing 'single'', Method (2022) *slowthai - ''Selfish 'single'', Method (2023) *slowthai - ''Feel Good 'single'', Method (2023) * Overmono - ''Calling Out 'single'', XL Recording (2023) *slowthai - '' Ugly 'LP'', Method (2023)

References

External links

Blue Daisy's Soundcloud
{{DEFAULTSORT:Darko, Kwes Year of birth missing (living people) Living people English electronic musicians Musicians from London Young (record label) artists English male songwriters 21st-century English songwriters English record producers British hip-hop record producers