
Tooper Keps - 1000 Guest Rooms
South of North- 1Law
- 2Goo
- 3Cope
- 4Toop
- 5Coin (Digital Bonus)
SON07-005
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Open edition
Holiday resort entertainer Tooper Keps takes a break from entertaining the professional leisure class, and reflects their own world back at them with an EP of otherworldly synths and eerie carnivalesque chansons.
Tooper Keps has fired up his trusty Yamaha PSR-11 and PSS-360 to write his first (and probably last) EP, condensing his favourite chord changes from years of distracting the retired and affluent. The result is a collection of floating song structures that revolve like fairground waltzes, punctuated by modulated effects, cowbells and Tooper’s own bitter tenor. Tapping into his inner goblin, he tackles themes such as property (as theft), Drexler’s gray goo problem, and the ‘merits’ of complaining about a system while also benefiting from it - a typical parasite’s paradox.
“1000 Guest Rooms” finds itself on location in luxury homes, cruise ships and holiday resorts, soaked in Tooper’s own self-loathing while casting a critical eye over the state of the world. While we hurtle towards a future that no one wants, “1000 Guest Rooms” is perhaps the best soundtrack we could hope for.
All songs written, produced, recorded and edited by Tooper Keps between Dec. 2024 and Feb. 2025 at TRii Musics.
Made primarily with Yamaha PSR-11, Yamaha PSS-360 and voice. Special thanks to ZOVV for customized cowbell.
Mastered by The Cologne Wizard
Artwork by Tooper Keps
Text by Fizzy Veins
SOUTH OF NORTH (c) 2025
Tooper Keps has fired up his trusty Yamaha PSR-11 and PSS-360 to write his first (and probably last) EP, condensing his favourite chord changes from years of distracting the retired and affluent. The result is a collection of floating song structures that revolve like fairground waltzes, punctuated by modulated effects, cowbells and Tooper’s own bitter tenor. Tapping into his inner goblin, he tackles themes such as property (as theft), Drexler’s gray goo problem, and the ‘merits’ of complaining about a system while also benefiting from it - a typical parasite’s paradox.
“1000 Guest Rooms” finds itself on location in luxury homes, cruise ships and holiday resorts, soaked in Tooper’s own self-loathing while casting a critical eye over the state of the world. While we hurtle towards a future that no one wants, “1000 Guest Rooms” is perhaps the best soundtrack we could hope for.
All songs written, produced, recorded and edited by Tooper Keps between Dec. 2024 and Feb. 2025 at TRii Musics.
Made primarily with Yamaha PSR-11, Yamaha PSS-360 and voice. Special thanks to ZOVV for customized cowbell.
Mastered by The Cologne Wizard
Artwork by Tooper Keps
Text by Fizzy Veins
SOUTH OF NORTH (c) 2025




