Cadet

Cadet is a group from Portsmouth that is active from 2015 to the present. The name is used for several different acts in the input, including an English rapper from London, but the grouped act is the one anchored by the origin and activity details here.

Style and releases

The band is described as a four-piece alternative and shoegaze group. It puts out a three-song demo in 2013 and then records the Disconnect EP with Vince Ratti, known for work with Zolof the Rock and Roll Destroyer. Harvcore Records releases the EP in early 2015.

Line-up and background

One description of the band presents the members as Ryan Smith on guitar, vocals and most of the songwriting, Chad Basom on drums and backing vocals, Jason Kennedy on bass, and Matt Lenhart on keyboards, guitar, vocals and occasional tambourine. Ryan Smith is said to have come to music through leading worship for Campus Crusade for Christ at Oregon State University, and he previously plays with Chad in Narrowgate. Jason later joins after his former band Pillar breaks up. The group then works up material from Ryan’s songs, plays two shows every three months, and spends a year performing at youth groups and church camps before recording a demo.

Recording and label history

The band works with producer Chris Stevens on a 10-song demo and later records a self-titled debut with Neill King in Vancouver, British Columbia. Before that release, it also records a worship album titled Any Given Day: Earth to Heaven with Stevens. Both albums come out in spring 2001 while the band is touring. The group later begins work on a third studio album, The Observatory, again with Stevens at Fabmusic Studios.

Other Cadet entries in the input

Elsewhere in the supplied text, Cadet is also the stage name of Blaine Cameron Johnson, an English rapper from London and cousin of Krept. He first becomes known through work with Krept and Konan’s Gipset crew from 2006, and he appears in their freestyles and videos. Gipset gains a following online in the early 2010s before splitting in 2013. The input also mentions a future funk artist from Brady, Texas under the same name.