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Some cool record finds today! DJ Sneak, Linus Loves (Breastfed), Paper Faces (Stuart Price), Audio Bully’s. All these guys have influenced me in one way or another! #vinyl #cratedigging
Story time (part 2): ‘Hello You’ was an album I wrote from late 2009-2011, which was never released. I was leaving my teenage years behind me and was focusing on finding my identity, both musically and in my private life. There were two versions of the album that changed over time, but the final version had 12 songs. In the middle of it all, something amazing happened... A-Trak and Armand Van Helden had just formed Duck Sauce and it was super popular to sample Disco again. I was booked to perform at Oxegen Festival in Ireland in 2010 and to my amazement, I was on before Duck Sauce! We were all on the lineup for the Dance Tent and it was raining really heavily that day, so the tent was rammed. There must of been about 7,000 people in there, my biggest crowd at the time. Steve Aoki was meant to play between myself and Duck Sauce but for some reason he wasn’t able to be there. So I filled his spot! I played my set and it went down pretty good! (footage on YouTube). As I stepped down from the stage, I was greeted by Armand and A-Trak, we shook hands and talked for 5-10 minutes. They were booked separately for some reason (I guess they were cheaper as separate names rather than together as Duck Sauce). So I was chatting to A-Trak whilst Armand was playing. 20 minutes into Armand’s set, he started mixing a song in...hang on...that’s my song! He played ‘Sunshine Hotel’ knowing I was watching him. It was the best feeling in the world to know an idol of mine was paying such huge respect to me. I’ve met them on two more occasions since and they’re the friendliest guys in the industry. The singles that survived from ‘Hello You’ were ‘Gimme Gimme’, ‘The Wall’, ‘Untrue’, ‘Touch Wood’, ‘Kaboom’ and ‘Funk Trunk Skunk’. All were released but the album never followed. Much like ‘I Delete Myself’, sample clearance played a big factor in it not being released but again my tastes were changing and I started writing without samples, which helped my songwriting massively. I still have a giant poster of this artwork in my studio. It’s a constant reminder to make sure whatever I’m currently working on is the best it can be. The only pressure, is the pressure you put on yourself.
Story time: Back in February 2008, I put out my first EP ‘The Peach EP’ on Myspace and through the success of that, I was able to get attention from promoters, management companies, A&R guys and booking agents. I’d been working on an album that year, and in September presented an early draft of it in meetings with an agent and management company in London. I titled it ‘I Delete Myself’. As a nervous, shy 18 year old, I sat down with them in their offices and pitched the album to them. Something they heard must of impressed them, as I ended up working with them for many years. It had 11 tracks, all sample based. There wasn’t any rules, just experimenting and finding my sound. I didn’t really know what I was doing. Some were chilled, laidback, others were French House and Big Beat influenced. I would spend hours in my bedroom, chopping up rare and obscure disco and soul records and found some really interesting records that hadn’t been sampled before. You’ve got to remember back to 2008, dance music was having a bit of a revival with the whole ‘Electro’ boom happening a year before. Suddenly it was cool to sample Disco and Funk records again like in the 90’s and early 00’s. Voodoo Chilli’s 2007 ‘Titans’ EP on Cheap Thrills was a massive influence on me at that time (without that EP, I probably wouldn’t have released The Peach EP!) My brother shot me hiding behind a curtain for the artwork (which I still love!). I’ve never shared it before, and I’ve been doing a lot of self reflection as I finish this new album, so here it is! The only songs that survived from ‘I Delete Myself’ were ‘Sunshine Hotel’ and ‘Be Brave’, which ended up being released on the ‘Me & Her’ EP In 2009. The main reason it never came out was because I felt like I wasn’t ready. I was improving all the time. Sample clearance was taking forever and I moved on. So I started working on a new album in late 2009...which never came out either! (More on that soon).
This! I’m not biased to a particular genre. Good music is good music. So send whatever you feel is your best work. There’s a couple of releases planned already, so you’ll be hearing a lot more from Ever After very soon.
My album Sleepless Nights was released exactly two years ago today! Time for another one?
Give it a another month or two and I think this new album will be finished. I’m finalising vocals on three songs, adding a few overdubs and tweaking the mixes. Two years in the making, the end is in sight.
This! The same goes for Artists, DJ’s and Songwriters. I’m honoured to have so many gifted female Singers/Songwriters contribute to my new album. Your ideas, your delivery, your passion and your talent speaks volumes! I’ll be introducing them all to you very soon...
Remember those lights...
Finally got my copy of ‘The Man From Mo’Wax’. A brutally honest documentary all about James Lavelle, DJ Shadow and Unkle. It really shows the dark side of songwriting and how not everything goes to plan. The Blu-ray comes with a great book too, track it down and give it a watch!
My latest toy...Let’s see if this has a place on the new album.
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