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Keith LeBlanc (1954 – 2024) was an American drummer and record producer known for recordings such as "No Sell Out" (1983), "Rockchester" (1987), "This Is Stranger Than Love" (1987), Put the Needle to the Record" (1987).

His career started out on Sugar Hill Records recording with hip hop pioneers Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel, and released several singles on and was a studio musician for Tommy Boy Records.

He then became a member of the bands Little Axe, Fats Comet and Tackhead.

He is also featured on several tracks on the album Pretty Hate Machine by Nine Inch Nails. He had his own record label on which he released music, samples records, and experiments.

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Early life

LeBlanc was born in Bristol, Connecticut in 1954 and grew up there. He got his start playing drums after seeing Ringo Starr from the Beatles on TV. After showing an early interest and focus, his parents bought him a practice pad, and he joined the orchestra in school. A drummer in school encouraged his early interest, inspiring him to cobble together a makeshift kit which he played along to records on his father's HiFi system. He performed his first show at 14 after being snuck into the club by his older bandmates.

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Sugar Hill Records

LeBlanc's friend Harold Sargent, the drummer for the house band at Sugar Hill Records, was retiring and needed to find his replacement. He brought in LeBlanc to audition for Doug Wimbish and Skip McDonald, who agreed to take him on after hitting it off with LeBlanc. After replacing Sargent, LeBlanc worked as the session drummer for Sugar Hill Records for four years.

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Death

Keith LeBlanc died in April 2024, at the age of 69 or 70. His death was confirmed by his label On-U Sound.

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Discography

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Solo albums

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Remixes

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Tackhead

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Session work

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Linking in 2024

ABC (band), Adrian Sherwood, As the Veneer of Democracy Starts to Fade, Be Near Me, Bernard Fowler, Beware (The Funk Is Everywhere), Bought for a Dollar, Sold for a Dime, Champagne & Grits, Chillin' (Force MDs album), CinemaSonics, Clear (Bomb the Bass album), Control Data (album), David Pastorius, Disconnection (album), Diva (Annie Lennox album), Doug Wimbish, Down in It, Dub Syndicate, Dubblestandart, Edit (album), E-mu Drumulator, Eric Gales, Fats Comet, Flood (music producer), For the Love of Money (album), Freakatorium (album), Freedom – No Compromise, Friendly as a Hand Grenade, Funkopolis, Gary Clail, Gods and Monsters (Gary Lucas album), Green (R.E.M. album), Halo I–IV, Hard Grind, Head Like a Hole, Hector Zazou, How to Be a ... Zillionaire!, Hypnotized (Mark Stewart song), If You Want Loyalty Buy a Dog, Island Records discography, Jamar Chess, Jungle Funk (album), Jungle Funk, Junior Delgado, Little Annie, Little Axe, Looking for the Perfect Beat: 1980–1985, Lucifer on the Moon, Major Malfunction, Mark Stewart (album), Mark Stewart (English musician), Mark Stewart + Maffia, Melle Mel, Metatron (Mark Stewart album), Mind at the End of the Tether, Ministry (band), More Songs About Love & Hate, Never Trust a Hippy (Adrian Sherwood album), No Sell Out, Planet Rock: The Album, Planet Rock: The Album, Power Inc. Volume 1, Power Inc. Volume 2, Power Inc. Volume 3 (Live), Pretty Hate Machine, Raw (Keith LeBlanc album), Reality (Tackhead song), Red Raw & Sore, Rock N Roll Rebel: The Early Work, Rockchester, Sahara Blue, Seal (1991 album), Seb Shelton, Sin (song), Slow Fuse, Soul Circus, Stone Cold Ohio, Stop the Confusion (Global Interference), Strange Parcels, Strange Things, Stranger than Fiction (Keith LeBlanc album), Sugarhill Gang (album), Sun City (album), Support the Miners, Switchblade (album), Tackhead discography, Tackhead Sound Crash, Tackhead Tape Time, Tackhead, Talvin Singh, The English Disease (album), The Game (You'll Never Walk Alone), The Godfathers, The Message (Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five album), The Swining, The Wolf that House Built, This Is Stranger Than Love, Ticking Time Bomb, Time Traveller (Keith LeBlanc album), Trip hop, Trippy Notes for Bass, Turn You Inside-Out, Twitch (Ministry album), Ultra (Depeche Mode album), Unique Recording Studios, Unity (Afrika Bambaataa and James Brown song), What's My Mission Now?, Wildest Dreams (Tina Turner album)



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