i liked Adam Harper's roundup of 2013 where he saw the keysound stuff as kind of the other side of the coin to the recent night slugs stuff -
http://www.dummymag.com/features/essay-meanwhile-in-the-uk-s-dance-underground
these two bits made sense to me...
"Keysound is exploring the circa 130bpm zone and highlighting a number of emerging producers there, but it nonetheless feels like every track they release is a unique marriage of high quality and a burning-edge inventiveness lying beyond the reach of those old maps, the ones that marked out “dubstep”, “grime” and “funky”. One way of looking at much of the stuff on and around this Keysound vibe might be as a darker version of the Jam City / Helix / L-Vis 1990 / Hysterics sound: just as interested in heavy syncopation at all layers, unusual timbres and sound effects and disjointed textures composed of several separate elements appearing in sequence, but preferring subtlety and UK dread to robo-athletic energy."
"In other words, it’s a polyrhythm squeezing as many as five evenly spaced sonic events into four ticks of the metronome (it’s not always the full five, often it’s just the first two or three, or just 1, 3 and 5, and so on) but with the straight “four” component practically absent. In some ways it’s the opposite of pure house, a sort of anti-house, separating all the “funky” syncopation out from “funky house”, flattening its alternation onto single, repeating timbres (pitched or percussive alike), and discarding the straight “house” beat."
with visionist's mix going up on Dis magazine alongside that one from hysterics, and releasing stuff on lit city, whose releases are on a similar tip to fade to mind, the connection seems to be there. something like mumdance and logos in reverse
sounds to me almost like it could have come out on night slugs too.
http://www.factmag.com/2013/09/02/fact-mix-398-visionist/
Neana deserves a mention here as well i think. his tracks have been played out loads by the night slugs lot recently, but also by visionist and others. he's got similarities to the past-looking of beneath/keysound lot, but less of the subtlety - more intense. like taking old grime tunes into the future on bowkat 8 bar and his dizzee refix -
https://soundcloud.com/neanatrax