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Bonus Track: Leonidas - 'Ambient Saucers' (feat. Terence McKenna) [Digital Only] by hobbes
Hot on the heels of the much loved 6th Leonidas & Hobbes “Together” EP (May ‘25), Leonidas returns this Halloween, with his long awaited second solo EP, “Flying Saucers”, since debuting in 2012 with Sequential EP (via Kay Suzuki’s Round In Motion label). https://hobbesmusicon.bandcamp.com/album/flying-saucers-hm034ep-house-balearic-cosmicAs the name suggests, Flying Saucers is an exploration into cosmic dancing, delving into some of Leonidas’ favourite extra-terrestrial, interstellar and sci-fi themes, without ever losing his focus on the dancefloor. The opening/title track is a 10 minute epic deep house journey, inspired by the below Jacques Vallée quote made famous by Terence McKenna (at a 1987 UFO conference). This is perfectly complemented by Oumuamua, another cosmic collaboration with good friend and collaborator Kay Suzuki, which can perhaps best be described as ‘Drexciya stuck in a lift with Manuel Gottsching’ (RIP) - the latter having given the pair praise for their seminal track, Interstellar Vibrations, in 2012.Side B kicks off with the minimal/acid house/slow ‘footwerk’ track, Spectral Portal, a funky 303/606/Juno 60 workout, followed by Nommo, an afrobeat influenced Balearic house number, inspired by tales of alien ancestral spirits from the mythology of the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa. The EP rounds off with Submarine 606 (the title is a play on 60s Japanese manga series Submarine 707), an electronic future-jazz number that defies categorisation."In looking at the effect, not asking the question 'what is it?' but 'what does it do?', you very quickly see what the Flying Saucers are doing. What they are doing is eroding faith in science. They are an antidote to the scientific paradigm that has evolved over the past 400 years and which has led us to the brink of global catastrophe." Jacques Vallée
Hot on the heels of the much loved 6th Leonidas & Hobbes “Together” EP (May ‘25), Leonidas returns this Halloween, with his long awaited second solo EP, “Flying Saucers”, since debuting in 2012 with Sequential EP (via Kay Suzuki’s Round In Motion label). https://hobbesmusicon.bandcamp.com/album/flying-saucers-hm034ep-house-balearic-cosmicAs the name suggests, Flying Saucers is an exploration into cosmic dancing, delving into some of Leonidas’ favourite extra-terrestrial, interstellar and sci-fi themes, without ever losing his focus on the dancefloor. The opening/title track is a 10 minute epic deep house journey, inspired by the below Jacques Vallée quote made famous by Terence McKenna (at a 1987 UFO conference). This is perfectly complemented by Oumuamua, another cosmic collaboration with good friend and collaborator Kay Suzuki, which can perhaps best be described as ‘Drexciya stuck in a lift with Manuel Gottsching’ (RIP) - the latter having given the pair praise for their seminal track, Interstellar Vibrations, in 2012.Side B kicks off with the minimal/acid house/slow ‘footwerk’ track, Spectral Portal, a funky 303/606/Juno 60 workout, followed by Nommo, an afrobeat influenced Balearic house number, inspired by tales of alien ancestral spirits from the mythology of the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa. The EP rounds off with Submarine 606 (the title is a play on 60s Japanese manga series Submarine 707), an electronic future-jazz number that defies categorisation."In looking at the effect, not asking the question 'what is it?' but 'what does it do?', you very quickly see what the Flying Saucers are doing. What they are doing is eroding faith in science. They are an antidote to the scientific paradigm that has evolved over the past 400 years and which has led us to the brink of global catastrophe." Jacques Vallée
Hot on the heels of the much loved 6th Leonidas & Hobbes “Together” EP (May ‘25), Leonidas returns this Halloween, with his long awaited second solo EP, “Flying Saucers”, since debuting in 2012 with Sequential EP (via Kay Suzuki’s Round In Motion label). https://hobbesmusicon.bandcamp.com/album/flying-saucers-hm034ep-house-balearic-cosmicAs the name suggests, Flying Saucers is an exploration into cosmic dancing, delving into some of Leonidas’ favourite extra-terrestrial, interstellar and sci-fi themes, without ever losing his focus on the dancefloor. The opening/title track is a 10 minute epic deep house journey, inspired by the below Jacques Vallée quote made famous by Terence McKenna (at a 1987 UFO conference). This is perfectly complemented by Oumuamua, another cosmic collaboration with good friend and collaborator Kay Suzuki, which can perhaps best be described as ‘Drexciya stuck in a lift with Manuel Gottsching’ (RIP) - the latter having given the pair praise for their seminal track, Interstellar Vibrations, in 2012.Side B kicks off with the minimal/acid house/slow ‘footwerk’ track, Spectral Portal, a funky 303/606/Juno 60 workout, followed by Nommo, an afrobeat influenced Balearic house number, inspired by tales of alien ancestral spirits from the mythology of the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa. The EP rounds off with Submarine 606 (the title is a play on 60s Japanese manga series Submarine 707), an electronic future-jazz number that defies categorisation."In looking at the effect, not asking the question 'what is it?' but 'what does it do?', you very quickly see what the Flying Saucers are doing. What they are doing is eroding faith in science. They are an antidote to the scientific paradigm that has evolved over the past 400 years and which has led us to the brink of global catastrophe." Jacques Vallée
Hot on the heels of the much loved 6th Leonidas & Hobbes “Together” EP (May ‘25), Leonidas returns this Halloween, with his long awaited second solo EP, “Flying Saucers”, since debuting in 2012 with Sequential EP (via Kay Suzuki’s Round In Motion label). https://hobbesmusicon.bandcamp.com/album/flying-saucers-hm034ep-house-balearic-cosmicAs the name suggests, Flying Saucers is an exploration into cosmic dancing, delving into some of Leonidas’ favourite extra-terrestrial, interstellar and sci-fi themes, without ever losing his focus on the dancefloor. The opening/title track is a 10 minute epic deep house journey, inspired by the below Jacques Vallée quote made famous by Terence McKenna (at a 1987 UFO conference). This is perfectly complemented by Oumuamua, another cosmic collaboration with good friend and collaborator Kay Suzuki, which can perhaps best be described as ‘Drexciya stuck in a lift with Manuel Gottsching’ (RIP) - the latter having given the pair praise for their seminal track, Interstellar Vibrations, in 2012.Side B kicks off with the minimal/acid house/slow ‘footwerk’ track, Spectral Portal, a funky 303/606/Juno 60 workout, followed by Nommo, an afrobeat influenced Balearic house number, inspired by tales of alien ancestral spirits from the mythology of the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa. The EP rounds off with Submarine 606 (the title is a play on 60s Japanese manga series Submarine 707), an electronic future-jazz number that defies categorisation."In looking at the effect, not asking the question 'what is it?' but 'what does it do?', you very quickly see what the Flying Saucers are doing. What they are doing is eroding faith in science. They are an antidote to the scientific paradigm that has evolved over the past 400 years and which has led us to the brink of global catastrophe." Jacques Vallée
Hot on the heels of the much loved 6th Leonidas & Hobbes “Together” EP (May ‘25), Leonidas returns this Halloween, with his long awaited second solo EP, “Flying Saucers”, since debuting in 2012 with Sequential EP (via Kay Suzuki’s Round In Motion label). https://hobbesmusicon.bandcamp.com/album/flying-saucers-hm034ep-house-balearic-cosmicAs the name suggests, Flying Saucers is an exploration into cosmic dancing, delving into some of Leonidas’ favourite extra-terrestrial, interstellar and sci-fi themes, without ever losing his focus on the dancefloor. The opening/title track is a 10 minute epic deep house journey, inspired by the below Jacques Vallée quote made famous by Terence McKenna (at a 1987 UFO conference). This is perfectly complemented by Oumuamua, another cosmic collaboration with good friend and collaborator Kay Suzuki, which can perhaps best be described as ‘Drexciya stuck in a lift with Manuel Gottsching’ (RIP) - the latter having given the pair praise for their seminal track, Interstellar Vibrations, in 2012.Side B kicks off with the minimal/acid house/slow ‘footwerk’ track, Spectral Portal, a funky 303/606/Juno 60 workout, followed by Nommo, an afrobeat influenced Balearic house number, inspired by tales of alien ancestral spirits from the mythology of the Dogon people of Mali, West Africa. The EP rounds off with Submarine 606 (the title is a play on 60s Japanese manga series Submarine 707), an electronic future-jazz number that defies categorisation."In looking at the effect, not asking the question 'what is it?' but 'what does it do?', you very quickly see what the Flying Saucers are doing. What they are doing is eroding faith in science. They are an antidote to the scientific paradigm that has evolved over the past 400 years and which has led us to the brink of global catastrophe." Jacques Vallée
Velvet Textures will be third release on the label from Osaka auteur Kiji Suedo, following 2022's acclaimed Riot album and 2023's Hosek EP.These releases attracted fans across the board: Ricardo Villalobos, Charles Webster, Antal, Leo Mas, ND Baumecker, John Heckle, Red Rack'em, Nick Craddock, Intergalactic Gary, For Mankind, Mixmag Asia, DJ Mag, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC 6Music, Giovanni Civitenga on NTS, Lorna Clarkson in Sydney, Tobias Fischer at 15 Questions in Berlin, Beatport Best New Hype Electronica, Ban Ban Ton Ton, the list goes on....Velvet Textures dwells in a space where fidelity unravels. Seams split. Pitch bends. Clarity slips into velvet. Voices fade. Hiss remains.Murky memories of house music, electro, techno, dub and ambient are all hewn together in Suedo's unique manner, leaning very much towards the leftfield, both on and off the dance floor.A2 track Focus is a brilliant collaboration with Edinburgh's George T (Accident Machine, George Demure etc), half-spoken, gently absorbed into the current - not foregrounded, but drifting like vapour through the mix.Together, they shape a sonic space that lingers in tension — half-thought, half-felt, never fully resolved.
Velvet Textures will be third release on the label from Osaka auteur Kiji Suedo, following 2022's acclaimed Riot album and 2023's Hosek EP.These releases attracted fans across the board: Ricardo Villalobos, Charles Webster, Antal, Leo Mas, ND Baumecker, John Heckle, Red Rack'em, Nick Craddock, Intergalactic Gary, For Mankind, Mixmag Asia, DJ Mag, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC 6Music, Giovanni Civitenga on NTS, Lorna Clarkson in Sydney, Tobias Fischer at 15 Questions in Berlin, Beatport Best New Hype Electronica, Ban Ban Ton Ton, the list goes on....Velvet Textures dwells in a space where fidelity unravels. Seams split. Pitch bends. Clarity slips into velvet. Voices fade. Hiss remains.Murky memories of house music, electro, techno, dub and ambient are all hewn together in Suedo's unique manner, leaning very much towards the leftfield, both on and off the dance floor.A2 track Focus is a brilliant collaboration with Edinburgh's George T (Accident Machine, George Demure etc), half-spoken, gently absorbed into the current - not foregrounded, but drifting like vapour through the mix.Together, they shape a sonic space that lingers in tension — half-thought, half-felt, never fully resolved.
Velvet Textures will be third release on the label from Osaka auteur Kiji Suedo, following 2022's acclaimed Riot album and 2023's Hosek EP.These releases attracted fans across the board: Ricardo Villalobos, Charles Webster, Antal, Leo Mas, ND Baumecker, John Heckle, Red Rack'em, Nick Craddock, Intergalactic Gary, For Mankind, Mixmag Asia, DJ Mag, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC 6Music, Giovanni Civitenga on NTS, Lorna Clarkson in Sydney, Tobias Fischer at 15 Questions in Berlin, Beatport Best New Hype Electronica, Ban Ban Ton Ton, the list goes on....Velvet Textures dwells in a space where fidelity unravels. Seams split. Pitch bends. Clarity slips into velvet. Voices fade. Hiss remains.Murky memories of house music, electro, techno, dub and ambient are all hewn together in Suedo's unique manner, leaning very much towards the leftfield, both on and off the dance floor.A2 track Focus is a brilliant collaboration with Edinburgh's George T (Accident Machine, George Demure etc), half-spoken, gently absorbed into the current - not foregrounded, but drifting like vapour through the mix.Together, they shape a sonic space that lingers in tension — half-thought, half-felt, never fully resolved.
Velvet Textures will be third release on the label from Osaka auteur Kiji Suedo, following 2022's acclaimed Riot album and 2023's Hosek EP.These releases attracted fans across the board: Ricardo Villalobos, Charles Webster, Antal, Leo Mas, ND Baumecker, John Heckle, Red Rack'em, Nick Craddock, Intergalactic Gary, For Mankind, Mixmag Asia, DJ Mag, Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone on BBC 6Music, Giovanni Civitenga on NTS, Lorna Clarkson in Sydney, Tobias Fischer at 15 Questions in Berlin, Beatport Best New Hype Electronica, Ban Ban Ton Ton, the list goes on....Velvet Textures dwells in a space where fidelity unravels. Seams split. Pitch bends. Clarity slips into velvet. Voices fade. Hiss remains.Murky memories of house music, electro, techno, dub and ambient are all hewn together in Suedo's unique manner, leaning very much towards the leftfield, both on and off the dance floor.A2 track Focus is a brilliant collaboration with Edinburgh's George T (Accident Machine, George Demure etc), half-spoken, gently absorbed into the current - not foregrounded, but drifting like vapour through the mix.Together, they shape a sonic space that lingers in tension — half-thought, half-felt, never fully resolved.
"Joe Jewellery is a Belfast legend. The “white Mr T” was on every dancefloor. While he was not a regular in the Back Bar, you'd know about it when he was there on a Sunday early doors. His jewellery has now been well decommissioned! He loved a wee dance and a bouncy piano break. Still does." Parnell March
Sarah/Shaun, 'It's True What They Say?' EP - A2 'It's True What They Say?' (CLIP) by hobbes
Sarah/Shaun, 'It's True What They Say?' EP - B3, 'Dust Tears (Instrumental)' (CLIP) by hobbes
Sarah/Shaun, 'It's True What They Say?' EP - B1 'Keep Your Eyes Closed' (CLIP) by hobbes
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Nice work! I like Sodium Orange the best… It’s interesting music, I am sure you will have a lot of success’ LEVON VINCENT ‘Thank you so much for sending’ AVALON EMERSON ‘This is superb. Thank you so much for sending it to me… Brilliant music’ LAURENT GARNIER 'It's great. Will defo play something on my next Noods show' RED RACK EM 'Beautiful album. I really like Sodium Orange, Urban Decay Sale, On The Corner, Bruised.' LEO MAS (Balearic legend) 'I've been chilling out to it. Very nice.' MOODY BOYZ (Acid House legend) ‘Sounds great… got the vibe of a full movie soundtrack to me – a lovely piece of work, and well put together’ THE REVENGE ‘Sweet! Thanks a lot. Love ‘On The Corner’ (B2). All pretty nice, though’ EXTRAWELT ‘Brilliant album, thank you!’ NIGHTWAVE ‘I like that. Definitely into the A side more, especially ‘Ripples Begin’ PLACID (We Go Deep) ‘Really like Ripples Begin. Put it on a mix I did for the Sub Club’ DOMENIC CAPPELLO (Subculture) ‘Sounding cool’ DAN CURTIN (Metamorphic) ‘Sounding very nice, I like the Ripples Begin track loads!’ IDA (Acid Flash)* ‘Really good as always. Different again. Will definitely pull something for the radio’ JAMIE THOMSON (Radio Magnetic) I really like it. Sounds deep and warm on 1st listen, and am sure it will deliver more and more each time' CEDRIC 'WOO' LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat, LDN/Int) 'Interesting stuff. Perfect soundtrack to my upcoming NYC to Detroit Greyhound bus ride' 'PHAT' PHIL COOPER
*Feedback for unreleased EP/sampler shared with a small number of DJs earlier this year. [NB Ripples Begin is the only track on the album from this EP.]
GAMING is the fresh new braindance electronica project from producer and musician Alan Bryden.
GAMING is a new solo outing that brings together a lifelong love of music and technology and creating left field, rhythmic electronica. It’s the sound of IDM, nineties techno and mensch maschine computer music that is as spontaneous as it is programmed.
“Scenes From A Deserted City is a collection of tracks that started as a set of riffs, loops, rhythms and grooves and unfurled around a sense of growing unease about the future of the urban environment around me. It’s an album that started out as sound…and ended up as a way of telling stories about the age of anxiety we live in, how our world is changing, and how we find a way through that. This is DIY electronica from Glasgow – it was made on a growing collection of digital and analogue synths and FX units, including a bunch of modular racks, each with its own idiosyncrasies and character that belies the assumption of the binary. The studio where it was recorded – an abandoned, and often very cold, school building reclaimed by the community some twenty years ago – offered up stories of resilience, even when all seems lost. (I’m not sure what the mice contributed but they definitely climbed in and out of some synths). This album is ultimately about my changing relationship with Glasgow, a city I’ve lived in for more than 25 years. It’s about how I feel now about the increasing sense of urban decay and how the city can be a very isolating place. It’s about how I reflect on my younger creative self trying to find a direction but mainly feeling a sense of dislocation and not fitting in. And it’s about the questions I have about how that relationship is changing, how it will be forced to move forward. The result is a soundtrack for walking home on your own, in that headphone bubble when it’s just you focusing on that music that makes sense to you alone. It’s for early in the morning, after the night before, or going to work with the memories of that slipping and sliding inside your head. It’s about how it feels to be both elated and lonely, to be lost in the familiar, despairingly hopeful.”
ALAN BRYDEN (Glasgow, August ‘19)
‘Loove this. Super music. :)’ LAURENT GARNIER 'The tracks are amazing! For real! Really very very good and weird music! I don’t know how when but i’ll try to support the whole album, is amazing!' BAWRUT 'This is great. Very high quality. Sometimes music is very hit or miss for me - this is a hit. This guy is very talented. Will play something on Rinse for sure' RED RACK EM ‘Sounds lovely. I really like it’ JIM STANTON (Horse Meat Disco)'This is ace, will support for sure' PHAT PHIL COOPER (Nu Northern Soul Sessions; Cafe del Mar, Ibiza) ‘Yeah I'd definitely play this. Aboy and Stars are the ones that caught my ear :)’ BILL BREWSTER (DJ History) ‘Interesting stuff’ Played on Beats in Space, 16.4.19 TIM SWEENEY (BIS) 'Thanks for the music. Yes is my favorite, I find Aboy interesting. Cheers from Milan' LEO MAS (Original Amnesia Resident & Ibiza Legend) ‘Really digging Stars and Satellites’ NICK THE RECORD 'All sound great. Think Aboy is my favourite' PHIL MISON (Balearic Legend) 'Nice work on this one - sounds like a lovely mini-album. Very trippy and hypnotic in all the right places. Thanks for sending!' THE REVENGE 'Cry Baby is the one for me just now thank you' JONNY ROCK (Brighton/Int.) 'These are fking bonkers! Love it! SEAN JOHNSTON (A Love From Outer Space) ‘I like the first 2 tracks, they're very cool indeed. Congrats on the release’ CEDRIC ‘WOO’ LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat) 'Lovely stuff this, particularly dig the Stars track but whole EP is great' CRAIG SMITH (6th Borough Project) ‘This sounds v interesting!’ ALI OOFT ‘Fking awesome’ GILES WALKER (Various, Scotland) 'This is great' JACKSONVILLE (20/20 Vision, Hizou, Metamorphic, Inner Shift) ‘Fab EP. Such a glorious noise with particular stand outs Yes and Cry Baby. The latter was played on my show this week and i'm looking to build a show with longer tracks as a Bank Holiday Special so i can play all ten minutes of Yes’ PAT BENSBERG (The Eccentric Selection, Phonic FM) 10.4.19 'Cry Baby is superb but what an interesting project. Love these soundscapes' YOGI HAUGHTON (Scottish Soulful Weekender) 'I love Stars.' GARETH SOMMERVILLE (Athens Of The North) ‘Wow, excellent EP! I will support through my Klassik Radio shows and playlists on Klassik Radio Select!’ DJ NARTAK (Klassik Radio, Lanzarote/SP)
RADIO/PODCASTS etc: Phil Cooper played Aboy, Nu Northern Soul Session #122: https://bit.ly/2JTxuyv Tim Sweeney played Satellites, Beats In Space (WNYU 89.1FM, NYC) #986: https://bit.ly/2VOdW6b Pat Bensberg played Yes, Phonic FM, 22.4.19: https://bit.ly/2LYDNUi Pat Bensberg played Cry Baby, Phonic FM, 8.4.19: https://bit.ly/2HKM2hg Bill Brewster played Stars, DJ History Podcast #493: https://bit.ly/2JROSDY
Brand new Hobbes Music signing from Tokyo, Kota Motomura is a slightly mysterious character with an ear for idiosyncratic music that runs the gamut from Exotica and Jazz to House and Techno. Highly original, it all adds up to a confection perhaps best described as 'Balearic'.
‘Loove this. Super music. :)’ LAURENT GARNIER 'The tracks are amazing! For real! Really very very good and weird music! I don’t know how when but i’ll try to support the whole album, is amazing!' BAWRUT 'This is great. Very high quality. Sometimes music is very hit or miss for me - this is a hit. This guy is very talented. Will play something on Rinse for sure' RED RACK EM ‘Sounds lovely. I really like it’ JIM STANTON (Horse Meat Disco)'This is ace, will support for sure' PHAT PHIL COOPER (Nu Northern Soul Sessions; Cafe del Mar, Ibiza) ‘Yeah I'd definitely play this. Aboy and Stars are the ones that caught my ear :)’ BILL BREWSTER (DJ History) ‘Interesting stuff’ Played on Beats in Space, 16.4.19 TIM SWEENEY (BIS) 'Thanks for the music. Yes is my favorite, I find Aboy interesting. Cheers from Milan' LEO MAS (Original Amnesia Resident & Ibiza Legend) ‘Really digging Stars and Satellites’ NICK THE RECORD 'All sound great. Think Aboy is my favourite' PHIL MISON (Balearic Legend) 'Nice work on this one - sounds like a lovely mini-album. Very trippy and hypnotic in all the right places. Thanks for sending!' THE REVENGE 'Cry Baby is the one for me just now thank you' JONNY ROCK (Brighton/Int.) 'These are fking bonkers! Love it! SEAN JOHNSTON (A Love From Outer Space) ‘I like the first 2 tracks, they're very cool indeed. Congrats on the release’ CEDRIC ‘WOO’ LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat) 'Lovely stuff this, particularly dig the Stars track but whole EP is great' CRAIG SMITH (6th Borough Project) ‘This sounds v interesting!’ ALI OOFT ‘Fking awesome’ GILES WALKER (Various, Scotland) 'This is great' JACKSONVILLE (20/20 Vision, Hizou, Metamorphic, Inner Shift) ‘Fab EP. Such a glorious noise with particular stand outs Yes and Cry Baby. The latter was played on my show this week and i'm looking to build a show with longer tracks as a Bank Holiday Special so i can play all ten minutes of Yes’ PAT BENSBERG (The Eccentric Selection, Phonic FM) 10.4.19 'Cry Baby is superb but what an interesting project. Love these soundscapes' YOGI HAUGHTON (Scottish Soulful Weekender) 'I love Stars.' GARETH SOMMERVILLE (Athens Of The North) ‘Wow, excellent EP! I will support through my Klassik Radio shows and playlists on Klassik Radio Select!’ DJ NARTAK (Klassik Radio, Lanzarote/SP)
RADIO/PODCASTS etc: Phil Cooper played Aboy, Nu Northern Soul Session #122: https://bit.ly/2JTxuyv Tim Sweeney played Satellites, Beats In Space (WNYU 89.1FM, NYC) #986: https://bit.ly/2VOdW6b Pat Bensberg played Yes, Phonic FM, 22.4.19: https://bit.ly/2LYDNUi Pat Bensberg played Cry Baby, Phonic FM, 8.4.19: https://bit.ly/2HKM2hg Bill Brewster played Stars, DJ History Podcast #493: https://bit.ly/2JROSDY
Brand new Hobbes Music signing from Tokyo, Kota Motomura is a slightly mysterious character with an ear for idiosyncratic music that runs the gamut from Exotica and Jazz to House and Techno. Highly original, it all adds up to a confection perhaps best described as 'Balearic'.
‘Loove this. Super music. :)’ LAURENT GARNIER 'The tracks are amazing! For real! Really very very good and weird music! I don’t know how when but i’ll try to support the whole album, is amazing!' BAWRUT 'This is great. Very high quality. Sometimes music is very hit or miss for me - this is a hit. This guy is very talented. Will play something on Rinse for sure' RED RACK EM ‘Sounds lovely. I really like it’ JIM STANTON (Horse Meat Disco)'This is ace, will support for sure' PHAT PHIL COOPER (Nu Northern Soul Sessions; Cafe del Mar, Ibiza) ‘Yeah I'd definitely play this. Aboy and Stars are the ones that caught my ear :)’ BILL BREWSTER (DJ History) ‘Interesting stuff’ Played on Beats in Space, 16.4.19 TIM SWEENEY (BIS) 'Thanks for the music. Yes is my favorite, I find Aboy interesting. Cheers from Milan' LEO MAS (Original Amnesia Resident & Ibiza Legend) ‘Really digging Stars and Satellites’ NICK THE RECORD 'All sound great. Think Aboy is my favourite' PHIL MISON (Balearic Legend) 'Nice work on this one - sounds like a lovely mini-album. Very trippy and hypnotic in all the right places. Thanks for sending!' THE REVENGE 'Cry Baby is the one for me just now thank you' JONNY ROCK (Brighton/Int.) 'These are fking bonkers! Love it! SEAN JOHNSTON (A Love From Outer Space) ‘I like the first 2 tracks, they're very cool indeed. Congrats on the release’ CEDRIC ‘WOO’ LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat) 'Lovely stuff this, particularly dig the Stars track but whole EP is great' CRAIG SMITH (6th Borough Project) ‘This sounds v interesting!’ ALI OOFT ‘Fking awesome’ GILES WALKER (Various, Scotland) 'This is great' JACKSONVILLE (20/20 Vision, Hizou, Metamorphic, Inner Shift) ‘Fab EP. Such a glorious noise with particular stand outs Yes and Cry Baby. The latter was played on my show this week and i'm looking to build a show with longer tracks as a Bank Holiday Special so i can play all ten minutes of Yes’ PAT BENSBERG (The Eccentric Selection, Phonic FM) 10.4.19 'Cry Baby is superb but what an interesting project. Love these soundscapes' YOGI HAUGHTON (Scottish Soulful Weekender) 'I love Stars.' GARETH SOMMERVILLE (Athens Of The North) ‘Wow, excellent EP! I will support through my Klassik Radio shows and playlists on Klassik Radio Select!’ DJ NARTAK (Klassik Radio, Lanzarote/SP)
RADIO/PODCASTS etc: Phil Cooper played Aboy, Nu Northern Soul Session #122: https://bit.ly/2JTxuyv Tim Sweeney played Satellites, Beats In Space (WNYU 89.1FM, NYC) #986: https://bit.ly/2VOdW6b Pat Bensberg played Yes, Phonic FM, 22.4.19: https://bit.ly/2LYDNUi Pat Bensberg played Cry Baby, Phonic FM, 8.4.19: https://bit.ly/2HKM2hg Bill Brewster played Stars, DJ History Podcast #493: https://bit.ly/2JROSDY
Brand new Hobbes Music signing from Tokyo, Kota Motomura is a slightly mysterious character with an ear for idiosyncratic music that runs the gamut from Exotica and Jazz to House and Techno. Highly original, it all adds up to a confection perhaps best described as 'Balearic'.
‘Loove this. Super music. :)’ LAURENT GARNIER 'The tracks are amazing! For real! Really very very good and weird music! I don’t know how when but i’ll try to support the whole album, is amazing!' BAWRUT 'This is great. Very high quality. Sometimes music is very hit or miss for me - this is a hit. This guy is very talented. Will play something on Rinse for sure' RED RACK EM ‘Sounds lovely. I really like it’ JIM STANTON (Horse Meat Disco)'This is ace, will support for sure' PHAT PHIL COOPER (Nu Northern Soul Sessions; Cafe del Mar, Ibiza) ‘Yeah I'd definitely play this. Aboy and Stars are the ones that caught my ear :)’ BILL BREWSTER (DJ History) ‘Interesting stuff’ Played on Beats in Space, 16.4.19 TIM SWEENEY (BIS) 'Thanks for the music. Yes is my favorite, I find Aboy interesting. Cheers from Milan' LEO MAS (Original Amnesia Resident & Ibiza Legend) ‘Really digging Stars and Satellites’ NICK THE RECORD 'All sound great. Think Aboy is my favourite' PHIL MISON (Balearic Legend) 'Nice work on this one - sounds like a lovely mini-album. Very trippy and hypnotic in all the right places. Thanks for sending!' THE REVENGE 'Cry Baby is the one for me just now thank you' JONNY ROCK (Brighton/Int.) 'These are fking bonkers! Love it! SEAN JOHNSTON (A Love From Outer Space) ‘I like the first 2 tracks, they're very cool indeed. Congrats on the release’ CEDRIC ‘WOO’ LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat) 'Lovely stuff this, particularly dig the Stars track but whole EP is great' CRAIG SMITH (6th Borough Project) ‘This sounds v interesting!’ ALI OOFT ‘Fking awesome’ GILES WALKER (Various, Scotland) 'This is great' JACKSONVILLE (20/20 Vision, Hizou, Metamorphic, Inner Shift) ‘Fab EP. Such a glorious noise with particular stand outs Yes and Cry Baby. The latter was played on my show this week and i'm looking to build a show with longer tracks as a Bank Holiday Special so i can play all ten minutes of Yes’ PAT BENSBERG (The Eccentric Selection, Phonic FM) 10.4.19 'Cry Baby is superb but what an interesting project. Love these soundscapes' YOGI HAUGHTON (Scottish Soulful Weekender) 'I love Stars.' GARETH SOMMERVILLE (Athens Of The North) ‘Wow, excellent EP! I will support through my Klassik Radio shows and playlists on Klassik Radio Select!’ DJ NARTAK (Klassik Radio, Lanzarote/SP)
RADIO/PODCASTS etc: Phil Cooper played Aboy, Nu Northern Soul Session #122: https://bit.ly/2JTxuyv Tim Sweeney played Satellites, Beats In Space (WNYU 89.1FM, NYC) #986: https://bit.ly/2VOdW6b Pat Bensberg played Yes, Phonic FM, 22.4.19: https://bit.ly/2LYDNUi Pat Bensberg played Cry Baby, Phonic FM, 8.4.19: https://bit.ly/2HKM2hg Bill Brewster played Stars, DJ History Podcast #493: https://bit.ly/2JROSDY
Brand new Hobbes Music signing from Tokyo, Kota Motomura is a slightly mysterious character with an ear for idiosyncratic music that runs the gamut from Exotica and Jazz to House and Techno. Highly original, it all adds up to a confection perhaps best described as 'Balearic'.
‘Loove this. Super music. :)’ LAURENT GARNIER 'The tracks are amazing! For real! Really very very good and weird music! I don’t know how when but i’ll try to support the whole album, is amazing!' BAWRUT 'This is great. Very high quality. Sometimes music is very hit or miss for me - this is a hit. This guy is very talented. Will play something on Rinse for sure' RED RACK EM ‘Sounds lovely. I really like it’ JIM STANTON (Horse Meat Disco)'This is ace, will support for sure' PHAT PHIL COOPER (Nu Northern Soul Sessions; Cafe del Mar, Ibiza) ‘Yeah I'd definitely play this. Aboy and Stars are the ones that caught my ear :)’ BILL BREWSTER (DJ History) ‘Interesting stuff’ Played on Beats in Space, 16.4.19 TIM SWEENEY (BIS) 'Thanks for the music. Yes is my favorite, I find Aboy interesting. Cheers from Milan' LEO MAS (Original Amnesia Resident & Ibiza Legend) ‘Really digging Stars and Satellites’ NICK THE RECORD 'All sound great. Think Aboy is my favourite' PHIL MISON (Balearic Legend) 'Nice work on this one - sounds like a lovely mini-album. Very trippy and hypnotic in all the right places. Thanks for sending!' THE REVENGE 'Cry Baby is the one for me just now thank you' JONNY ROCK (Brighton/Int.) 'These are fking bonkers! Love it! SEAN JOHNSTON (A Love From Outer Space) ‘I like the first 2 tracks, they're very cool indeed. Congrats on the release’ CEDRIC ‘WOO’ LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat) 'Lovely stuff this, particularly dig the Stars track but whole EP is great' CRAIG SMITH (6th Borough Project) ‘This sounds v interesting!’ ALI OOFT ‘Fking awesome’ GILES WALKER (Various, Scotland) 'This is great' JACKSONVILLE (20/20 Vision, Hizou, Metamorphic, Inner Shift) ‘Fab EP. Such a glorious noise with particular stand outs Yes and Cry Baby. The latter was played on my show this week and i'm looking to build a show with longer tracks as a Bank Holiday Special so i can play all ten minutes of Yes’ PAT BENSBERG (The Eccentric Selection, Phonic FM) 10.4.19 'Cry Baby is superb but what an interesting project. Love these soundscapes' YOGI HAUGHTON (Scottish Soulful Weekender) 'I love Stars.' GARETH SOMMERVILLE (Athens Of The North) ‘Wow, excellent EP! I will support through my Klassik Radio shows and playlists on Klassik Radio Select!’ DJ NARTAK (Klassik Radio, Lanzarote/SP)
RADIO/PODCASTS etc: Phil Cooper played Aboy, Nu Northern Soul Session #122: https://bit.ly/2JTxuyv Tim Sweeney played Satellites, Beats In Space (WNYU 89.1FM, NYC) #986: https://bit.ly/2VOdW6b Pat Bensberg played Yes, Phonic FM, 22.4.19: https://bit.ly/2LYDNUi Pat Bensberg played Cry Baby, Phonic FM, 8.4.19: https://bit.ly/2HKM2hg Bill Brewster played Stars, DJ History Podcast #493: https://bit.ly/2JROSDY
Brand new Hobbes Music signing from Tokyo, Kota Motomura is a slightly mysterious character with an ear for idiosyncratic music that runs the gamut from Exotica and Jazz to House and Techno. Highly original, it all adds up to a confection perhaps best described as 'Balearic'.
‘Loove this. Super music. :)’ LAURENT GARNIER 'The tracks are amazing! For real! Really very very good and weird music! I don’t know how when but i’ll try to support the whole album, is amazing!' BAWRUT 'This is great. Very high quality. Sometimes music is very hit or miss for me - this is a hit. This guy is very talented. Will play something on Rinse for sure' RED RACK EM ‘Sounds lovely. I really like it’ JIM STANTON (Horse Meat Disco)'This is ace, will support for sure' PHAT PHIL COOPER (Nu Northern Soul Sessions; Cafe del Mar, Ibiza) ‘Yeah I'd definitely play this. Aboy and Stars are the ones that caught my ear :)’ BILL BREWSTER (DJ History) ‘Interesting stuff’ Played on Beats in Space, 16.4.19 TIM SWEENEY (BIS) 'Thanks for the music. Yes is my favorite, I find Aboy interesting. Cheers from Milan' LEO MAS (Original Amnesia Resident & Ibiza Legend) ‘Really digging Stars and Satellites’ NICK THE RECORD 'All sound great. Think Aboy is my favourite' PHIL MISON (Balearic Legend) 'Nice work on this one - sounds like a lovely mini-album. Very trippy and hypnotic in all the right places. Thanks for sending!' THE REVENGE 'Cry Baby is the one for me just now thank you' JONNY ROCK (Brighton/Int.) 'These are fking bonkers! Love it! SEAN JOHNSTON (A Love From Outer Space) ‘I like the first 2 tracks, they're very cool indeed. Congrats on the release’ CEDRIC ‘WOO’ LASSONDE (Beauty & The Beat) 'Lovely stuff this, particularly dig the Stars track but whole EP is great' CRAIG SMITH (6th Borough Project) ‘This sounds v interesting!’ ALI OOFT ‘Fking awesome’ GILES WALKER (Various, Scotland) 'This is great' JACKSONVILLE (20/20 Vision, Hizou, Metamorphic, Inner Shift) ‘Fab EP. Such a glorious noise with particular stand outs Yes and Cry Baby. The latter was played on my show this week and i'm looking to build a show with longer tracks as a Bank Holiday Special so i can play all ten minutes of Yes’ PAT BENSBERG (The Eccentric Selection, Phonic FM) 10.4.19 'Cry Baby is superb but what an interesting project. Love these soundscapes' YOGI HAUGHTON (Scottish Soulful Weekender) 'I love Stars.' GARETH SOMMERVILLE (Athens Of The North) ‘Wow, excellent EP! I will support through my Klassik Radio shows and playlists on Klassik Radio Select!’ DJ NARTAK (Klassik Radio, Lanzarote/SP)
RADIO/PODCASTS etc: Phil Cooper played Aboy, Nu Northern Soul Session #122: https://bit.ly/2JTxuyv Tim Sweeney played Satellites, Beats In Space (WNYU 89.1FM, NYC) #986: https://bit.ly/2VOdW6b Pat Bensberg played Yes, Phonic FM, 22.4.19: https://bit.ly/2LYDNUi Pat Bensberg played Cry Baby, Phonic FM, 8.4.19: https://bit.ly/2HKM2hg Bill Brewster played Stars, DJ History Podcast #493: https://bit.ly/2JROSDY
Brand new Hobbes Music signing from Tokyo, Kota Motomura is a slightly mysterious character with an ear for idiosyncratic music that runs the gamut from Exotica and Jazz to House and Techno. Highly original, it all adds up to a confection perhaps best described as 'Balearic'.
‘Uplifting electronic pop that takes the best bits of the 90s... a strong sound that is definitely overdue a revival. 8/10’ MIXMAG 'I love these tracks!' ALFREDO FIORITO (‘FATHER OF BALEARIC BEAT' & ORIGINAL AMNESIA RESIDENT) 'I played it on my last podcast. I like it. Thanks for sending.' BILL BREWSTER (DJ HISTORY) 'Absolutely love the Off Key Hat’s new EP with the original Shot At Dawn vocal and dub mixes being my faves. Watch out folks, dirty edgy dancing pop is coming to your town!' ASHLEY BEEDLE (XPRESS-2) 'The (OKH) dub mix is doing it for me' TIM SWEENEY (BEATS IN SPACE) 'Good stuff!' JD TWITCH (OPTIMO) 'Warm You Love is great - has a Yazoo vibe' LUKE SOLOMON 'Yeah I like it...' NANCY NOISE 'Lovely… digging the (L&H deep house) instrumental particularly' THE REVENGE 'Digging the (L&H deep house) dub mix the best, nice and deep' OOFT 'I really like the L&H Deep House Instrumental - lovely work! I reckon radio DJs etc would lap up the original mix' SEAN JOHNSTON (ALFOS) ‘Good music. I think the instrumental of Warm Your Love and your wonky off kilter Electro Dub are going to be the ones for me’ DICKY TRISCO 'I really love 'Warm Your Love' brilliantly hooky lead line that automatically draws you in with really nice production' JAGZ KOONER ‘Sounding lovely’ JOE MORRIS (CLANDESTINO) ‘Love the whole package!!!’ PATHAAN 'Leonidas & Hobbes turn out a perfectly pitched ('Deep House Instrumental') remix and transform the original into something of timeless beauty, easily the best version by far' MARK GILBERT (STUPID HUMAN/HUGH MANE) ‘Loving Warm Your Love (Instrumental)!! Will playlist this on Radio 1 Prague’ JON KENNEDY ‘A lovely record’ DAVIE MILLER (FINIFLEX/FINITRIBE)
INTRO The Off Key Hat is a trio, originally from London. Originally picked up by Andy Blake’s legendary, vinyl-only label, Dissident, for a trio of limited edition, one-sided 12”s (2008-9) and consequently Yam Who’s ISM, for an album (2011), they ploughed a crossover Nu Disco/Electronica furrow and were elevated to cult status, not least via international club hit, Emergency Calling (still highly rated by the Discogs mafia et al), collaborating with DJ trailblazers Daniel Baldelli, Ashley Beedle and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy via a series of re-mixes of their material.
This record comes in a shrink-wrapped, full colour sleeve, illustrated by Tokyo's Sayori Wada, including download code - six bonus mixes exclusively available to vinyl buyers only.
TRACKLIST A1: Shot At Dawn A2: Warm Your Love B1: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Dub' Remix) B2: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Instrumental' Remix)
BONUS MIXES (available via enclosed download code only) 1: Shot At Dawn (Dub) 2: Warm Your Love (Instrumental) 3: Shot At Dawn (Instrumental) 4: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Vocal' Remix) 5: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Dub' Remix) 6: Shot At Dawn (Radio / Video Edit)
‘Uplifting electronic pop that takes the best bits of the 90s... a strong sound that is definitely overdue a revival. 8/10’ MIXMAG 'I love these tracks!' ALFREDO FIORITO (‘FATHER OF BALEARIC BEAT' & ORIGINAL AMNESIA RESIDENT) 'I played it on my last podcast. I like it. Thanks for sending.' BILL BREWSTER (DJ HISTORY) 'Absolutely love the Off Key Hat’s new EP with the original Shot At Dawn vocal and dub mixes being my faves. Watch out folks, dirty edgy dancing pop is coming to your town!' ASHLEY BEEDLE (XPRESS-2) 'The (OKH) dub mix is doing it for me' TIM SWEENEY (BEATS IN SPACE) 'Good stuff!' JD TWITCH (OPTIMO) 'Warm You Love is great - has a Yazoo vibe' LUKE SOLOMON 'Yeah I like it...' NANCY NOISE 'Lovely… digging the (L&H deep house) instrumental particularly' THE REVENGE 'Digging the (L&H deep house) dub mix the best, nice and deep' OOFT 'I really like the L&H Deep House Instrumental - lovely work! I reckon radio DJs etc would lap up the original mix' SEAN JOHNSTON (ALFOS) ‘Good music. I think the instrumental of Warm Your Love and your wonky off kilter Electro Dub are going to be the ones for me’ DICKY TRISCO 'I really love 'Warm Your Love' brilliantly hooky lead line that automatically draws you in with really nice production' JAGZ KOONER ‘Sounding lovely’ JOE MORRIS (CLANDESTINO) ‘Love the whole package!!!’ PATHAAN 'Leonidas & Hobbes turn out a perfectly pitched ('Deep House Instrumental') remix and transform the original into something of timeless beauty, easily the best version by far' MARK GILBERT (STUPID HUMAN/HUGH MANE) ‘Loving Warm Your Love (Instrumental)!! Will playlist this on Radio 1 Prague’ JON KENNEDY ‘A lovely record’ DAVIE MILLER (FINIFLEX/FINITRIBE)
INTRO The Off Key Hat is a trio, originally from London. Originally picked up by Andy Blake’s legendary, vinyl-only label, Dissident, for a trio of limited edition, one-sided 12”s (2008-9) and consequently Yam Who’s ISM, for an album (2011), they ploughed a crossover Nu Disco/Electronica furrow and were elevated to cult status, not least via international club hit, Emergency Calling (still highly rated by the Discogs mafia et al), collaborating with DJ trailblazers Daniel Baldelli, Ashley Beedle and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy via a series of re-mixes of their material.
This record comes in a shrink-wrapped, full colour sleeve, illustrated by Tokyo's Sayori Wada, including download code - six bonus mixes exclusively available to vinyl buyers only.
TRACKLIST A1: Shot At Dawn A2: Warm Your Love B1: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Dub' Remix) B2: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Instrumental' Remix)
BONUS MIXES (available via enclosed download code only) 1: Shot At Dawn (Dub) 2: Warm Your Love (Instrumental) 3: Shot At Dawn (Instrumental) 4: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Vocal' Remix) 5: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Dub' Remix) 6: Shot At Dawn (Radio / Video Edit)
‘Uplifting electronic pop that takes the best bits of the 90s... a strong sound that is definitely overdue a revival. 8/10’ MIXMAG 'I love these tracks!' ALFREDO FIORITO (‘FATHER OF BALEARIC BEAT' & ORIGINAL AMNESIA RESIDENT) 'I played it on my last podcast. I like it. Thanks for sending.' BILL BREWSTER (DJ HISTORY) 'Absolutely love the Off Key Hat’s new EP with the original Shot At Dawn vocal and dub mixes being my faves. Watch out folks, dirty edgy dancing pop is coming to your town!' ASHLEY BEEDLE (XPRESS-2) 'The (OKH) dub mix is doing it for me' TIM SWEENEY (BEATS IN SPACE) 'Good stuff!' JD TWITCH (OPTIMO) 'Warm You Love is great - has a Yazoo vibe' LUKE SOLOMON 'Yeah I like it...' NANCY NOISE 'Lovely… digging the (L&H deep house) instrumental particularly' THE REVENGE 'Digging the (L&H deep house) dub mix the best, nice and deep' OOFT 'I really like the L&H Deep House Instrumental - lovely work! I reckon radio DJs etc would lap up the original mix' SEAN JOHNSTON (ALFOS) ‘Good music. I think the instrumental of Warm Your Love and your wonky off kilter Electro Dub are going to be the ones for me’ DICKY TRISCO 'I really love 'Warm Your Love' brilliantly hooky lead line that automatically draws you in with really nice production' JAGZ KOONER ‘Sounding lovely’ JOE MORRIS (CLANDESTINO) ‘Love the whole package!!!’ PATHAAN 'Leonidas & Hobbes turn out a perfectly pitched ('Deep House Instrumental') remix and transform the original into something of timeless beauty, easily the best version by far' MARK GILBERT (STUPID HUMAN/HUGH MANE) ‘Loving Warm Your Love (Instrumental)!! Will playlist this on Radio 1 Prague’ JON KENNEDY ‘A lovely record’ DAVIE MILLER (FINIFLEX/FINITRIBE)
INTRO The Off Key Hat is a trio, originally from London. Originally picked up by Andy Blake’s legendary, vinyl-only label, Dissident, for a trio of limited edition, one-sided 12”s (2008-9) and consequently Yam Who’s ISM, for an album (2011), they ploughed a crossover Nu Disco/Electronica furrow and were elevated to cult status, not least via international club hit, Emergency Calling (still highly rated by the Discogs mafia et al), collaborating with DJ trailblazers Daniel Baldelli, Ashley Beedle and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy via a series of re-mixes of their material.
This record comes in a shrink-wrapped, full colour sleeve, illustrated by Tokyo's Sayori Wada, including download code - six bonus mixes exclusively available to vinyl buyers only.
TRACKLIST A1: Shot At Dawn A2: Warm Your Love B1: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Dub' Remix) B2: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Instrumental' Remix)
BONUS MIXES (available via enclosed download code only) 1: Shot At Dawn (Dub) 2: Warm Your Love (Instrumental) 3: Shot At Dawn (Instrumental) 4: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Vocal' Remix) 5: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Dub' Remix) 6: Shot At Dawn (Radio / Video Edit)
‘Uplifting electronic pop that takes the best bits of the 90s... a strong sound that is definitely overdue a revival. 8/10’ MIXMAG 'I love these tracks!' ALFREDO FIORITO (‘FATHER OF BALEARIC BEAT' & ORIGINAL AMNESIA RESIDENT) 'I played it on my last podcast. I like it. Thanks for sending.' BILL BREWSTER (DJ HISTORY) 'Absolutely love the Off Key Hat’s new EP with the original Shot At Dawn vocal and dub mixes being my faves. Watch out folks, dirty edgy dancing pop is coming to your town!' ASHLEY BEEDLE (XPRESS-2) 'The (OKH) dub mix is doing it for me' TIM SWEENEY (BEATS IN SPACE) 'Good stuff!' JD TWITCH (OPTIMO) 'Warm You Love is great - has a Yazoo vibe' LUKE SOLOMON 'Yeah I like it...' NANCY NOISE 'Lovely… digging the (L&H deep house) instrumental particularly' THE REVENGE 'Digging the (L&H deep house) dub mix the best, nice and deep' OOFT 'I really like the L&H Deep House Instrumental - lovely work! I reckon radio DJs etc would lap up the original mix' SEAN JOHNSTON (ALFOS) ‘Good music. I think the instrumental of Warm Your Love and your wonky off kilter Electro Dub are going to be the ones for me’ DICKY TRISCO 'I really love 'Warm Your Love' brilliantly hooky lead line that automatically draws you in with really nice production' JAGZ KOONER ‘Sounding lovely’ JOE MORRIS (CLANDESTINO) ‘Love the whole package!!!’ PATHAAN 'Leonidas & Hobbes turn out a perfectly pitched ('Deep House Instrumental') remix and transform the original into something of timeless beauty, easily the best version by far' MARK GILBERT (STUPID HUMAN/HUGH MANE) ‘Loving Warm Your Love (Instrumental)!! Will playlist this on Radio 1 Prague’ JON KENNEDY ‘A lovely record’ DAVIE MILLER (FINIFLEX/FINITRIBE)
INTRO The Off Key Hat is a trio, originally from London. Originally picked up by Andy Blake’s legendary, vinyl-only label, Dissident, for a trio of limited edition, one-sided 12”s (2008-9) and consequently Yam Who’s ISM, for an album (2011), they ploughed a crossover Nu Disco/Electronica furrow and were elevated to cult status, not least via international club hit, Emergency Calling (still highly rated by the Discogs mafia et al), collaborating with DJ trailblazers Daniel Baldelli, Ashley Beedle and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy via a series of re-mixes of their material.
This record comes in a shrink-wrapped, full colour sleeve, illustrated by Tokyo's Sayori Wada, including download code - six bonus mixes exclusively available to vinyl buyers only.
TRACKLIST A1: Shot At Dawn A2: Warm Your Love B1: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Dub' Remix) B2: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Instrumental' Remix)
BONUS MIXES (available via enclosed download code only) 1: Shot At Dawn (Dub) 2: Warm Your Love (Instrumental) 3: Shot At Dawn (Instrumental) 4: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Vocal' Remix) 5: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Dub' Remix) 6: Shot At Dawn (Radio / Video Edit)
‘Uplifting electronic pop that takes the best bits of the 90s... a strong sound that is definitely overdue a revival. 8/10’ MIXMAG 'I love these tracks!' ALFREDO FIORITO (‘FATHER OF BALEARIC BEAT' & ORIGINAL AMNESIA RESIDENT) 'I played it on my last podcast. I like it. Thanks for sending.' BILL BREWSTER (DJ HISTORY) 'Absolutely love the Off Key Hat’s new EP with the original Shot At Dawn vocal and dub mixes being my faves. Watch out folks, dirty edgy dancing pop is coming to your town!' ASHLEY BEEDLE (XPRESS-2) 'The (OKH) dub mix is doing it for me' TIM SWEENEY (BEATS IN SPACE) 'Good stuff!' JD TWITCH (OPTIMO) 'Warm You Love is great - has a Yazoo vibe' LUKE SOLOMON 'Yeah I like it...' NANCY NOISE 'Lovely… digging the (L&H deep house) instrumental particularly' THE REVENGE 'Digging the (L&H deep house) dub mix the best, nice and deep' OOFT 'I really like the L&H Deep House Instrumental - lovely work! I reckon radio DJs etc would lap up the original mix' SEAN JOHNSTON (ALFOS) ‘Good music. I think the instrumental of Warm Your Love and your wonky off kilter Electro Dub are going to be the ones for me’ DICKY TRISCO 'I really love 'Warm Your Love' brilliantly hooky lead line that automatically draws you in with really nice production' JAGZ KOONER ‘Sounding lovely’ JOE MORRIS (CLANDESTINO) ‘Love the whole package!!!’ PATHAAN 'Leonidas & Hobbes turn out a perfectly pitched ('Deep House Instrumental') remix and transform the original into something of timeless beauty, easily the best version by far' MARK GILBERT (STUPID HUMAN/HUGH MANE) ‘Loving Warm Your Love (Instrumental)!! Will playlist this on Radio 1 Prague’ JON KENNEDY ‘A lovely record’ DAVIE MILLER (FINIFLEX/FINITRIBE)
INTRO The Off Key Hat is a trio, originally from London. Originally picked up by Andy Blake’s legendary, vinyl-only label, Dissident, for a trio of limited edition, one-sided 12”s (2008-9) and consequently Yam Who’s ISM, for an album (2011), they ploughed a crossover Nu Disco/Electronica furrow and were elevated to cult status, not least via international club hit, Emergency Calling (still highly rated by the Discogs mafia et al), collaborating with DJ trailblazers Daniel Baldelli, Ashley Beedle and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy via a series of re-mixes of their material.
This record comes in a shrink-wrapped, full colour sleeve, illustrated by Tokyo's Sayori Wada, including download code - six bonus mixes exclusively available to vinyl buyers only.
TRACKLIST A1: Shot At Dawn A2: Warm Your Love B1: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Dub' Remix) B2: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Instrumental' Remix)
BONUS MIXES (available via enclosed download code only) 1: Shot At Dawn (Dub) 2: Warm Your Love (Instrumental) 3: Shot At Dawn (Instrumental) 4: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Vocal' Remix) 5: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Dub' Remix) 6: Shot At Dawn (Radio / Video Edit)
‘Uplifting electronic pop that takes the best bits of the 90s... a strong sound that is definitely overdue a revival. 8/10’ MIXMAG 'I love these tracks!' ALFREDO FIORITO (‘FATHER OF BALEARIC BEAT' & ORIGINAL AMNESIA RESIDENT) 'I played it on my last podcast. I like it. Thanks for sending.' BILL BREWSTER (DJ HISTORY) 'Absolutely love the Off Key Hat’s new EP with the original Shot At Dawn vocal and dub mixes being my faves. Watch out folks, dirty edgy dancing pop is coming to your town!' ASHLEY BEEDLE (XPRESS-2) 'The (OKH) dub mix is doing it for me' TIM SWEENEY (BEATS IN SPACE) 'Good stuff!' JD TWITCH (OPTIMO) 'Warm You Love is great - has a Yazoo vibe' LUKE SOLOMON 'Yeah I like it...' NANCY NOISE 'Lovely… digging the (L&H deep house) instrumental particularly' THE REVENGE 'Digging the (L&H deep house) dub mix the best, nice and deep' OOFT 'I really like the L&H Deep House Instrumental - lovely work! I reckon radio DJs etc would lap up the original mix' SEAN JOHNSTON (ALFOS) ‘Good music. I think the instrumental of Warm Your Love and your wonky off kilter Electro Dub are going to be the ones for me’ DICKY TRISCO 'I really love 'Warm Your Love' brilliantly hooky lead line that automatically draws you in with really nice production' JAGZ KOONER ‘Sounding lovely’ JOE MORRIS (CLANDESTINO) ‘Love the whole package!!!’ PATHAAN 'Leonidas & Hobbes turn out a perfectly pitched ('Deep House Instrumental') remix and transform the original into something of timeless beauty, easily the best version by far' MARK GILBERT (STUPID HUMAN/HUGH MANE) ‘Loving Warm Your Love (Instrumental)!! Will playlist this on Radio 1 Prague’ JON KENNEDY ‘A lovely record’ DAVIE MILLER (FINIFLEX/FINITRIBE)
INTRO The Off Key Hat is a trio, originally from London. Originally picked up by Andy Blake’s legendary, vinyl-only label, Dissident, for a trio of limited edition, one-sided 12”s (2008-9) and consequently Yam Who’s ISM, for an album (2011), they ploughed a crossover Nu Disco/Electronica furrow and were elevated to cult status, not least via international club hit, Emergency Calling (still highly rated by the Discogs mafia et al), collaborating with DJ trailblazers Daniel Baldelli, Ashley Beedle and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy via a series of re-mixes of their material.
This record comes in a shrink-wrapped, full colour sleeve, illustrated by Tokyo's Sayori Wada, including download code - six bonus mixes exclusively available to vinyl buyers only.
TRACKLIST A1: Shot At Dawn A2: Warm Your Love B1: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Dub' Remix) B2: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Instrumental' Remix)
BONUS MIXES (available via enclosed download code only) 1: Shot At Dawn (Dub) 2: Warm Your Love (Instrumental) 3: Shot At Dawn (Instrumental) 4: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Vocal' Remix) 5: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Dub' Remix) 6: Shot At Dawn (Radio / Video Edit)
‘Uplifting electronic pop that takes the best bits of the 90s... a strong sound that is definitely overdue a revival. 8/10’ MIXMAG 'I love these tracks!' ALFREDO FIORITO (‘FATHER OF BALEARIC BEAT' & ORIGINAL AMNESIA RESIDENT) 'I played it on my last podcast. I like it. Thanks for sending.' BILL BREWSTER (DJ HISTORY) 'Absolutely love the Off Key Hat’s new EP with the original Shot At Dawn vocal and dub mixes being my faves. Watch out folks, dirty edgy dancing pop is coming to your town!' ASHLEY BEEDLE (XPRESS-2) 'The (OKH) dub mix is doing it for me' TIM SWEENEY (BEATS IN SPACE) 'Good stuff!' JD TWITCH (OPTIMO) 'Warm You Love is great - has a Yazoo vibe' LUKE SOLOMON 'Yeah I like it...' NANCY NOISE 'Lovely… digging the (L&H deep house) instrumental particularly' THE REVENGE 'Digging the (L&H deep house) dub mix the best, nice and deep' OOFT 'I really like the L&H Deep House Instrumental - lovely work! I reckon radio DJs etc would lap up the original mix' SEAN JOHNSTON (ALFOS) ‘Good music. I think the instrumental of Warm Your Love and your wonky off kilter Electro Dub are going to be the ones for me’ DICKY TRISCO 'I really love 'Warm Your Love' brilliantly hooky lead line that automatically draws you in with really nice production' JAGZ KOONER ‘Sounding lovely’ JOE MORRIS (CLANDESTINO) ‘Love the whole package!!!’ PATHAAN 'Leonidas & Hobbes turn out a perfectly pitched ('Deep House Instrumental') remix and transform the original into something of timeless beauty, easily the best version by far' MARK GILBERT (STUPID HUMAN/HUGH MANE) ‘Loving Warm Your Love (Instrumental)!! Will playlist this on Radio 1 Prague’ JON KENNEDY ‘A lovely record’ DAVIE MILLER (FINIFLEX/FINITRIBE)
INTRO The Off Key Hat is a trio, originally from London. Originally picked up by Andy Blake’s legendary, vinyl-only label, Dissident, for a trio of limited edition, one-sided 12”s (2008-9) and consequently Yam Who’s ISM, for an album (2011), they ploughed a crossover Nu Disco/Electronica furrow and were elevated to cult status, not least via international club hit, Emergency Calling (still highly rated by the Discogs mafia et al), collaborating with DJ trailblazers Daniel Baldelli, Ashley Beedle and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy via a series of re-mixes of their material.
This record comes in a shrink-wrapped, full colour sleeve, illustrated by Tokyo's Sayori Wada, including download code - six bonus mixes exclusively available to vinyl buyers only.
TRACKLIST A1: Shot At Dawn A2: Warm Your Love B1: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Dub' Remix) B2: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Instrumental' Remix)
BONUS MIXES (available via enclosed download code only) 1: Shot At Dawn (Dub) 2: Warm Your Love (Instrumental) 3: Shot At Dawn (Instrumental) 4: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Vocal' Remix) 5: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Dub' Remix) 6: Shot At Dawn (Radio / Video Edit)
‘Uplifting electronic pop that takes the best bits of the 90s... a strong sound that is definitely overdue a revival. 8/10’ MIXMAG 'I love these tracks!' ALFREDO FIORITO (‘FATHER OF BALEARIC BEAT' & ORIGINAL AMNESIA RESIDENT) 'I played it on my last podcast. I like it. Thanks for sending.' BILL BREWSTER (DJ HISTORY) 'Absolutely love the Off Key Hat’s new EP with the original Shot At Dawn vocal and dub mixes being my faves. Watch out folks, dirty edgy dancing pop is coming to your town!' ASHLEY BEEDLE (XPRESS-2) 'The (OKH) dub mix is doing it for me' TIM SWEENEY (BEATS IN SPACE) 'Good stuff!' JD TWITCH (OPTIMO) 'Warm You Love is great - has a Yazoo vibe' LUKE SOLOMON 'Yeah I like it...' NANCY NOISE 'Lovely… digging the (L&H deep house) instrumental particularly' THE REVENGE 'Digging the (L&H deep house) dub mix the best, nice and deep' OOFT 'I really like the L&H Deep House Instrumental - lovely work! I reckon radio DJs etc would lap up the original mix' SEAN JOHNSTON (ALFOS) ‘Good music. I think the instrumental of Warm Your Love and your wonky off kilter Electro Dub are going to be the ones for me’ DICKY TRISCO 'I really love 'Warm Your Love' brilliantly hooky lead line that automatically draws you in with really nice production' JAGZ KOONER ‘Sounding lovely’ JOE MORRIS (CLANDESTINO) ‘Love the whole package!!!’ PATHAAN 'Leonidas & Hobbes turn out a perfectly pitched ('Deep House Instrumental') remix and transform the original into something of timeless beauty, easily the best version by far' MARK GILBERT (STUPID HUMAN/HUGH MANE) ‘Loving Warm Your Love (Instrumental)!! Will playlist this on Radio 1 Prague’ JON KENNEDY ‘A lovely record’ DAVIE MILLER (FINIFLEX/FINITRIBE)
INTRO The Off Key Hat is a trio, originally from London. Originally picked up by Andy Blake’s legendary, vinyl-only label, Dissident, for a trio of limited edition, one-sided 12”s (2008-9) and consequently Yam Who’s ISM, for an album (2011), they ploughed a crossover Nu Disco/Electronica furrow and were elevated to cult status, not least via international club hit, Emergency Calling (still highly rated by the Discogs mafia et al), collaborating with DJ trailblazers Daniel Baldelli, Ashley Beedle and Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy via a series of re-mixes of their material.
This record comes in a shrink-wrapped, full colour sleeve, illustrated by Tokyo's Sayori Wada, including download code - six bonus mixes exclusively available to vinyl buyers only.
TRACKLIST A1: Shot At Dawn A2: Warm Your Love B1: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Dub' Remix) B2: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Instrumental' Remix)
BONUS MIXES (available via enclosed download code only) 1: Shot At Dawn (Dub) 2: Warm Your Love (Instrumental) 3: Shot At Dawn (Instrumental) 4: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Electro Vocal' Remix) 5: Shot At Dawn (Leonidas & Hobbes 'Deep House Dub' Remix) 6: Shot At Dawn (Radio / Video Edit)