Last Soul Descendents, of Houston, TX, was formed in 1996 and is made up of two members, Darren Roberts and Leah Moore. L.S.D., for short, also collaborates with various artists and features them on different projects. L.S.D came up with their name because they felt that it captured the idea of artists working together to produce music and art that is real and true to their hearts. It seems that anymore this is a rare and valuable quality and that those that feel that way about their product are among the last souls and it is up to the artists to keep it alive.
Last Soul Descendents music style is classified as Electronic with the sub-genres of Down-Tempo, Trip Hop and Dub. Some of their influences are Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Prince, George Clinton and the P Funk All-stars, Zapp, Burning Spear, Sly and Robbie, Bjork, Portishead, Lamb, Morcheeba, just to name a few. L.S.D. tries to encompass all the various styles into their music to give it a blend of hypnotic grooves.
I guess you can say Darren Roberts been into music all of his life as a baby banging on pots pans drums made out of boxes anything that made a sound. Growing up in Ohio listening to everything from funk rock and jazz groups like Ohio Players,Roger Troutman & Zapp and Bootsy Collins just to name a few. Learned to play guitar and moved to bass around age 13 playing in jam sessions with the older musicians in the area and forming different groups threw out the years, finally frustrated with dealing with other unreliable musicians brought him to discover multi track recording and working on perfecting his studio engineering skills. In mid ninties Darren moved to Houston Texas where he continued to record and starting the trip hop group Last Soul Descendents featuring Leah Moore vocalist and guest vocals Karina Nistal ,Jeremiah David and Dionne Banks putting out various CD's and doing live shows. And Darren also laid bass down for other producers in the studio and featured on a track off of Dat Boi Mikee's Southern Life CD with guest rappers like Devin The Dude, ESG,Z-RO .Darren also had a song Strange Love featured on the soundtrack for JEL Production’s film Exposure that was released in the summer of 2003. They are also featured on the cable television show Rent Wars out of New York with over several million viewers. Darren remixed a track from the artist Saru, off his CD Downtempo Dojo of Shadow Records called Suck In Love (Exhale Remix) and in return Saru remixed Something About You (Step To It Remix) off the 2004 compilation Space City Grooves. In 2004, Last Soul Descendents' producer, Darren Roberts, was awarded The Houston Press best producer and LSD was nominated for the Houston Press best Soul/Funk/R&B group. In April 2006, LSD signed the single Lisse Gruv, off of the Progressive Tranquility compilation, with Waveform Records to be included on their compilation Chillicious, out late 2006. In early 2008 Darren produced a few tracks with L.A rapper Xczircles off his CD Act of Gosh, and a Ep with Vocalist Meredith Evans The Passion. And Recently worked with Houston Hip Hop artist Mic Skillz with a featured track Write or Wrong on his CD Defiant and a side project called Kenton & Hill a blend of Jazz, Funk & Dub.
