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In the middle of 2009, mid-way through the biggest American tour of their career, Kele Okereke and his three Bloc Party alumni agreed that it was time to put a temporary full stop on band matters.

Kele had previously guested on a Chemical Brothers track and on their last full-length record Intimacy, the band had warped influences from bleeding edge American R&B, pounding techno motifs and soundsystem dub-plates into the confines of a festival-friendly UK rock act.

‘We had gone pretty far,’ muses Kele now. ‘But for me, we had not gone far enough.’ Enter Bloc Party DJ set!