Natural Self is the ongoing project of Nathaniel Pearn, aka producer Keno-1. Pearn was originally inspired by the rhythmic force of The Bomb Squad?s productions for Public Enemy, and hip hop was the primary influence on his first forays into music. His hometown of Oxford was just near enough to London to pick up Tim Westwood?s then seminal Capital Rap Show floating across the airwaves. The beats he heard as a teenager led him forward, to the future hip hop of DJs Shadow and Krush, and back to its roots in the American funk of the late ?60s and early ?70s. This sparked a keen appreciation of musical lineage as well as a sense of the possibilities of the future and would provide the foundation of everything that was to follow. Crate-digging culture introduced him to a whole world of music and broadened his horizons immeasurably.