Kev'Laa Learned the Floor at Cream, and Disco Biscuit Sends a First-Timer Onto It
Three Edits on Kevinho’s Records Turn a Clubber’s First Night Out Into Funky Tech House
Cream ran its weekly house night at Nation, on Liverpool’s Wolstenholme Square, from October 1992 to June 2002. The building came down in 2016. As a University of Liverpool student, Kev’Laa went to those nights. Now Kev’Laa sends a first-timer onto that kind of floor in Disco Biscuit, three edits of funky tech house.
Kev’Laa’s Disco Biscuit sits in the playlist below with the progressive house and big room records this desk rotates. Every write-up on him is gathered on his artist profile. The single reached this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news desks. Press play on the playlist, then read on for the Cream nights that shaped him.
Cream Grew From a Liverpool House Night for About 400 Clubbers Into the Superclub That Shaped Kev’Laa
James Barton, Darren Hughes and Andy Carroll started Cream at Nation, formerly Snobs Disco, in October 1992. At first, the Saturday night drew around 400 clubbers. Within a few years it had become one of the UK’s first superclubs, pulling in thousands from across the country. Paul Oakenfold, Pete Tong, Carl Cox, Fatboy Slim and The Chemical Brothers all played Cream events. The club has also counted Steve Lawler and Yousef among its resident DJs.
The club and the university fed each other early on. In 1996, a poll by the University of Liverpool cited Cream as the third main reason people applied there. The weekly night ended in June 2002. Today, Cream’s festival, Creamfields, runs every August in Daresbury, Cheshire.
Kev’Laa studied at the university in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During those years he heard progressive house, trance, techno and rave in the rooms Cream programmed. That era, he says, shaped how he arranges a record. It taught him long builds, grooves that hold and moments that only work on a dance floor. However, he does not try to recreate the period in the studio. Instead, he carries those club instincts into a modern setup and points them at stranger ideas.
A Strategy Career First, Then Kevinho’s Records
Kevin Allmark is the North West England producer, DJ, songwriter and visual creator behind Kev’Laa. He wanted to DJ and produce when he was younger. However, the bills came first, so he took a normal job. A career in strategy, behavioural science and technology followed. Now he has more room in his life, and new tools have opened doors. As a result, he makes the music he waited for and mixes his own records into his DJ sets.
He also runs the whole project himself. Releases come out on his own label, Kevinho’s Records, through DistroKid. He handles the metadata, the catalogue records and the rights registrations too. His process pairs AI-assisted music and visual tools with his own concepts, lyrics and arrangement choices. Across the catalogue, recurring characters keep turning up. They include Hugo and Lola, the feuding rulers of what he calls the Kev’Laa Universe, plus Disco Goose and Mr Whippy.
Disco Biscuit Takes the Kev’Laa Universe on a First Night Out
Disco Biscuit follows a clubber through a first night out. Its hooks include “I only had one” and “Things are getting weird”. Another line asks whether someone kept that guy’s number. A bouncing bassline carries the track, and disco samples bend out of shape above it. Meanwhile, processing turns the voice into part of the rhythm rather than a layer on top. He wrote the words and the music and produced the track himself. The synthesiser parts are his too.
The single came out on 14 August 2026 and carries three edits. The original runs 5:34 and gives the idea room to develop. By contrast, the Radio Edit cuts it to 2:50. The Funkin Dunkin Edit, a biscuit-dunking pun, lands between them at 3:34. A separate Drop Culture Version followed on 28 August as its own release, so it is not part of this single.
Two Brazilian outlets, Beat for Beat and Music For All, reviewed the single in August.
Basement Jaxx, Fisher and Purple Disco Machine Show Where Kev’Laa’s Disco Biscuit Meets Funny, Funky House
Basement Jaxx showed that British house could take the groove seriously and treat everything else as a joke. Where’s Your Head At came out on 19 November 2001 as the third single from Rooty. The duo built it on samples of Gary Numan’s M.E. and This Wreckage. It then reached number nine in the UK. In the Traktor-directed video, the faces of Felix Buxton and Simon Ratcliffe sit on laboratory monkeys. Kev’Laa works the same way, with the joke in the pictures as well as the record. That is why Disco Biscuit came with a short video of club revellers living out its story.
Fisher is the case for a big personality on a tech house floor. The Australian producer played Losing It in his Coachella sets in 2017. Other DJs bootlegged it, so he released it officially on 13 July 2018. It earned a nomination for Best Dance Recording at the Grammy Awards in February 2019. It also held number one on the Beatport Top 100 for a record 62 days. The track rides a catchy vocal phrase over a heavy bass drop. Similarly, Disco Biscuit hangs its humour on short, repeatable hooks.
Purple Disco Machine covers the disco end of the comparison. Tino Piontek grew up in Dresden. His father, a record collector, introduced him to the funk of the 1970s and 1980s. He started producing in 1996 with Cubase and a few synthesisers. Later, Hypnotized, his 2020 single with Sophie and the Giants, carried that funk-into-house approach into the charts. In 2023, his remix of Lizzo’s About Damn Time won a Grammy. Disco Biscuit borrows from the same crate of disco samples, though it keeps them crooked on purpose.
Where Disco Biscuit Goes in a Set
Kev’Laa built Disco Biscuit for late-night floors, so it suits DJs who play funky and disco house after midnight. Former Cream regulars who never stopped going out should try it, too. So should listeners who keep Where’s Your Head At and Hypnotized in the same playlist. In short, anyone who wants house music that laughs at itself without losing the floor should start here.
From the ElectronicMusic.News curator team: “Three lengths of one idea make Disco Biscuit easy to programme. Slot the 2:50 Radio Edit between two long records when the room needs a laugh. Save the 5:34 original for the hour when the floor will follow a story all the way to the end.”
Follow Kev’Laa and Stream Disco Biscuit
Stream Disco Biscuit on Apple Music, and find Kev’Laa’s releases for DJ use on Beatport. Follow Kev’Laa on Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Audiomack, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and X. For the rest of the Kev’Laa Universe, visit the official website.
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