Kelli Hand
Kelli Hand alias K-HAND (born in Detroit, Michigan is an American techno musician and DJ.
Life and career
Born and raised in Detroit, Hand started to work as a DJ in the 1990s.[1] In 1990 she founded her own label Acacia Records.[2] In the early 1990s she released first singles and EPs. In 1994 her single Global Warning was released on the British label Warp Records. In 1995 her debut album On A Journey was released on Studio !K7.
In 1993 she traveled to Atlanta (where her other family resides), and founded Chris Brann aka Wamdue kids, Ananda Project group. And signed six extended play releases to the Acacia Records label from the duo.
By year 2000, seven further albums were released on the labels !K7 Records, Distance, Tresor and Ausfahrt.
Her album Detroit History Part 1 released in 2001 on Tresor was based on the occasion of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (DEMF) which was the beginning stages of the Detroit Electronic music festivals in USA, worldwide.
In 2000's the Acacia Records Label continues to release vinyl records, as well as digital formats worldwide.
In Early 2015, in addition, Hand has joined Nina Kraviz label named трип (English: Trip)
Discography
Studio Albums
- 1995: K. Hand – On A Journey (Studio !K7)
- 1997: K. Hand – The Art Of Music (Studio !K7)
- 1997: K-Hand – Ready For The Darkness (Substance/Distance)
- 1997: K-Hand – Soul (Ausfahrt)
- 1998: K-Hand – Fantasy (Ausfahrt)
- 2000: K. Hand – Salsafied (Ausfahrt)
- 2001: K. Hand – Detroit History Part 1 (Tresor)
Extended Plays
- 1990: Etat Solide – Think About It (UK House Records/Acacia Records)
- 1992: Etat Solide feat. Zoey – No Heartbreaks (Acacia Records)
- 1993: K. Hand – Ba Da Bing (Acacia Records)
- 1993: K Hand featuring Rhythm Formation – Rhythm Is Back (Acacia Records)
- 1993: K. Hand / Claude Young – Everybody / You Give Me (Acacia Records)
- 1993: K. Hand – Not Giving Up (Acacia Records)
- 1993: K. Hand – From The "I Fucked All Week" Guy (Acacia Records)
- 1993: K. Hand – Rodeo / The Tunnel (Global Cuts)
- 1993: K. Hand feat. Zoey – I Do (Acacia Records)
- 1994: K. Hand – The Saints Go Marching On (Global Cuts)
- 1994: K Hand – Global Warning (Warp Records)
- 1994: K. Hand – Everybody (EC Records)
- 1995: Etat Solide – Living For Another (UK House Records)
- 1995: K. Hand – Project #1 (Acacia Records)
- 1995: K. Hand – Project #2 (Acacia Records)
- 1995: K. Hand – Project #3 (Acacia Records)
- 1995: K. Hand – Project #4 (Acacia Records)
- 1995: K. Hand – Acid Nation (Loriz Sounds)
- 1995: K. Hand – Groove E.P. (Radikal Fear)
- 1996: K. Hand – On A Mission (Studio !K7)
- 1996: K Hand – The Project EP (D:Tour)
- 1996: K Hand – The Next Project EP (D:Tour)
- 1996: K. Hand – Unreleased Project (Acacia Records)
- 1997: KMH – Right Now EP (M.C. Projects)
- 1997: K. Hand – Mayday EP (Acacia Records)
- 1997: K. Hand / Graffiti – Roots / Graffiti's Theme (Sublime Records)
- 1997: K. Hand – Project 5 EP Untitled (Acacia Records)
- 1997: K. Hand – Horizon (Substance)
- 1997: K. Hand – All Over The World (Acacia Records)
- 1997: K. Hand – Spice EP (Acacia Records)
- 1997: K. Hand – Flashback EP (Acacia Records)
- 1997: K. Hand – Sounds (Hyperspace)
- 1997: K. Hand – Project 69 EP (Acacia Records)
- 1998: K. Hand – Sweet Love (Fourone1 Records)
- 1998: By Kely – The Bomb (Re-load Records)
- 1999: K. Hand – Do It (Distance)
- 1999: K Hand – Pimps & Freaks (Remote Recordings)
- 1999: K. Hand – Good Love (Maffia Music)
- 1999: K-Hand – Baby All I Want (School Records)
- 1999: K. Hand – Supernatural (Pandamonium)
- 2000: Kely – Active X EP (Future Frontier)
- 2000: K. Hand – Traxx For Daze Vol.1 (Push & Pull)
- 2000: K. Hand – Clap Yo Hands (Loveslap! Recordings)
- 2000: K. Hand – Better Believe (Maffia Music)
- 2001: K. Hand – Sex On The Dancefloor EP (Loveslap! Recordings)
- 2002: K. Hand – Tools Vol.1 (Acacia Records)
- 2003: Kelli Hand – Afterhour (Sino)
- 2003: K. Hand – Get Down (Loveslap! Recordings)
- 2004: Kelli Hand – Moody Life EP (Third Ear Recordings)
- 2007: Messenger aka K-Hand – Wanderer (Underground Liberation)
- 2008: K-Hand – These Sounds Lead The Way EP (Gorsch)
- 2008: K-Hand – Feel (Acacia Records)
- 2009: K-Hand & Kero – Dat Roit EP (Kerohand)
- 2009: K-Hand – Red Dog EP (Gorsch)
- 2009: Kelli Hand – Silent Answer EP (Acacia Records)
- 2010: K-Hand & Kero – Content EP (Kerohand)
- 2013: K Hand – Funky Tonight (Third Ear Recordings)
- 2015: K-Hand – Intuition EP (Acacia Records)
Compilations
- 2012: fabric 66– Starz (Fabric Records)
- 2013: fabric 67 – Project 5 Untitled B1 (Fabric Records)