http://digital.thecontentlabel.com/album/dday-one-gathered-between

Gathered Between is Dday One’s fifth studio album in ten years, a lost chapter from his discography unearthed through an exercise in memory. 

The tracks on Gathered Between were originally recorded after Dday One’s second album, Heavy Migration. But a hard drive failure took the album away, leaving only a handful of tracks that were released on rare and now out-of-print compilations. In early 2015, while listening to a rough demo of the album, Dday decided to reconstruct Gathered Between using memory as his only guide. 

Dday dug through his crates to relocated samples and, using classic samplers and various other technology, reprogrammed the album beat by beat like an audio archaeologist. As a result, Gathered Between expands the language of classic hip-hop production in the same spirit as the greats of the genre. 

Gathered Between offers a captivating instrumental hip-hop journey across ten tracks. As with previous releases, the crackle of vinyl sits next to melancholic horn melodies and piano licks, fingered bass dances across breaks, and disembodied voices give the slightest hint of the author’s opinions. Built from hundreds of samples, the music is a tapestry of pasts on which the listener is invited to write their own memories and hopes for the future. Starting off with a bang, ‘One Another’, a tune of unification, brings to mind hints of classic Pete Rock production, the crunchy drums and bubbling stabs of ‘Alchemy Loop’ are reminiscent of golden era aesthetics but move beyond. The album is held together by the same attention to detail and intricate sample layering that has defined Dday One’s work to date. 

Dday One - Out of The Shadows (Gathered Between, The Content Label, P-Vine)

Soundtracks for memories that never ended properly.
Ambient. Lo-fi. Drone. Glitch.
Not songs — fragments. Not answers — reverbs.
For those who slept through Sunday and woke up in someone else’s life.
Fragments of memory, rendered in low resolution.
Emotions stretched, glitched, reversed — but always real.
Experimental electronica, ambient, lo-fi, glitch, and the spaces between sounds.
Here you’ll find tracks that don’t take you by the hand — but leave a mark.
Sometimes melancholic, sometimes unsettling, often just… honest.

This isn’t background music.
These are states.
Sounds for the night, for solitude, for thoughts that can’t quite be named.
If you want to listen — listen.
If you want to feel — stay a little longer.

Dday One - Out of The Shadows (Gathered Between, The Content Label, P-Vine)

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