--- title: "Kemal and Calyx Team Up For Their Debut Collaborative Release on Blackout Music: TF Word" description: "Despite a close friendship spanning nearly three decades, the two-track EP will be the pair’s first-ever collaboration. ‘Above The Sun’ marks the pair’s first…" canonical: "https://www.ticketfairy.com/word/2026/11/10/kemal-and-calyx-team-up-for-their-debut-collaborative-release-on-blackout-music" --- 1. [TF Word](https://www.ticketfairy.com/word/) 2. [Featured](https://www.ticketfairy.com/word/category/featured) 3. Kemal and Calyx Team Up For Their Debut Collaborative Release on Blackout Music - [Featured](https://www.ticketfairy.com/word/category/featured) - [Music](https://www.ticketfairy.com/word/category/music) # Kemal and Calyx Team Up For Their Debut Collaborative Release on Blackout Music Despite a close friendship spanning nearly three decades, the two-track EP will be the pair’s first-ever collaboration. ‘Above The Sun’ marks the pair’s first collaboration, accompanied by the Calyx solo cut ‘Boom.’ [Sagar Deshmukh](https://www.ticketfairy.com/word/author/sagar0204) 10 November 2026 · 3 min read ***Despite a close friendship spanning nearly three decades, the two-track EP will be the pair’s first-ever collaboration.*** ‘Above The Sun’ marks the pair’s first collaboration, accompanied by the Calyx solo cut ‘Boom.’ For the best part of thirty years, Kemal and Calyx have helped shape some of the most important chapters in drum & bass. Their respective partnerships with Rob Data and TeeBee produced records that pushed the genre forward and continue to hold their place in its history. Despite all those years of friendship, however, Kemal and Calyx had never released music together. [Konflict - Messiah by s v t](https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F1194637351&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=702) For Kemal, that history is inseparable from Konflict, his partnership with fellow Glasgow producer Rob Data. Releases such as ‘Roadblock,’ ‘Cyanide’ and the ‘Maelstrom’ EP helped establish the pair’s place in the genre, while ‘Messiah’ remains a record that belongs in any conversation about the greatest drum & bass tracks ever made. Their work, both as Konflict and as Kemal & Rob Data, left a mark that extended well beyond their years together. Calyx built an equally important body of work. His solo debut album, ‘No Turning Back,’ arrived in 2005, before his partnership with TeeBee brought us ‘Anatomy’ in 2007. The pair’s move to Ram Records led to ‘All or Nothing’ in 2012, an album that paired their production detail with the depth and intensity of vocal-led tracks such as ‘Elevate This Sound,’ ‘Pure Gold’ with Kemo and ‘You’ll Never Take Me Alive’ with Beardyman. ‘1×1’ and ‘Plates’ followed, adding further chapters to one of the genre’s era-defining partnerships. [Spotify Embed: Skank](https://open.spotify.com/embed/track/3yOLUDO7UXA4Rd5rvGH0V9?utm_source=oembed) Both artists have since continued to develop their individual work. Kemal returned to drum & bass in 2019 after more than a decade away, while Calyx has been releasing solo material through Critical Music. Their histories have taken different paths, but their friendship has endured. Now, 28 years into that friendship, ‘Above The Sun / Boom’ brings them together on Blackout Music, the Dutch label run by Black Sun Empire. ‘Above The Sun’ looks back while pulling the sound forward through contemporary production. Its long intro is where that feeling first takes hold, carrying a rawness that makes Konflict’s ‘Messiah’ feel as though it arrived only yesterday. Kemal and Calyx have helped drum & bass grow into the beast it is today without losing sight of how much can be achieved by keeping an idea simple and giving it room to work. There is a slice of that approach here: the track feels rugged and washy, with a nostalgia that runs through its neurofunk elements without leaving it stuck in the past. [Above The Sun / Boom by Blackout Music NL](https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?visual=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Fplaylists%2F2324424111&show_artwork=true&maxheight=1000&maxwidth=702) ‘Boom,’ meanwhile, is Calyx on his own, offering an ode to 2000s neurofunk. It is a straightforward track that understands how effective a simple idea can be on a sound system. The bounce and funk keep it moving, with the focus firmly on the dancefloor. 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