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2022: O's Selected Tracks

Burning

If This Is It

Rare-Earth Elements

Untamed

Juno

Ordel (Robot Koch Remix) [feat. Kyson & Beau Diako]

Composer Johan Lenox (Kanye West, Travis Scott) reshapes Beacon’s trip-hop ballad “Gambler” into a lush orchestral arrangement for violin and cello in this new remix for publisher Heavy Duty’s Best Of label. Deftly transcribing Beacon’s abstract sound design and piano into intricate layers of string swells and plucks, Lenox reimagines the original single with a sublime cinematic intensity.

Stream Gambler (Johan Lenox Strings Version): https://beacon.lnk.to/gamblerjohanlenoxversion
Mastered by Black Knoll Studio
Visualizer by Beacon
© 2021 Best Of / Beacon Projects

Beacon - Gambler (Johan Lenox Strings Version)

Cherry

Homesick (feat. Izzy)

Era (Edit)

Komorebi

All That Must Be

Outgrown

Yearning for the Infinite

Perpetual Motion

Reflect

Heartbreak / 6000 Ft.

6000 Ft.

Try Repeat

Buy/stream: https://kompakt.fm/releases/videosphere

Videosphere, the debut album by Kompakt’s latest signing, the London-based artist Lake Turner (aka Andrew Halford), swoons into focus with “The Sunbird”, a teasing drift of lilting, ambient tones, riding out a submerged piston-pulse rhythm. Across its brief 109 seconds, it manages to traverse evocative terrain – something mythopoetic, something both humble and grandiose, a glimpse of the other behind the sky’s curtain. “I wanted to conjure up something resembling an ancient ceremony or death procession,” Turner nods. “Like a hymn to the surroundings of a faraway hill.” It’s both sky-bound and earthen, a ritual incantation to call in the music of the spheres.

Turner was introduced to the Kompakt family by his sometime collaborator Yannis Philippakis of Foals. He’d previously made music in post-punk and indie groups Great Eskimo Hoax and Trophy Wife, but Videosphere is the first time he’s fully articulated his own vision of electronic music, aside from one limited lathe-cut 12”, 2018’s Prime Mover EP, on Algebra. The lush ambient-disco-techno dreams of Videosphere were constructed and completed in his London studio and at his parents’ arable and sheep farm in Worcestershire, which might help explain the hazy, unhurried pastoralism of the album.

“There was a slight bittersweetness in finishing the record (in Worcestershire) as my parents were in the middle of selling my childhood home,” he sighs, before quipping, “on the plus, I ended up shearing a lot of sheep over the summer.” A student of archaeology and ancient history, Turner is no doubt carefully attuned to the twisting cogs of history and memory, and it’s no surprise that Videosphere has a nostalgic, melancholic cast; much of its beauty rests in the way it tugs, gently, at the heart strings – see the tear-stained cheeks of the lush, dappled “Honeycomb”, or the sweetly sad electro-roundelay of “No Way Back Forever.”

It’s not all drift-dream hypnosis, though – Videosphere is very much grounded in the now. ““No Way Back Forever” is a nod to the linear nature of time,” Turner explains by way of example, “and the tipping point of the world climate crisis that scientists have now declared.” Jayne Powell’s vocals are sent spinning through the song, wound like candyfloss; she takes centre stage on the techno hymnal title track, too. Throughout, there’s a sense of forward movement, despite the life stasis we find ourselves collectively bound by in mid-2020; there’s also a yearning for the communal, for community, that’s captured in the album title, a nod to an object Turner encountered at London’s Geoffrey Museum, “a television set in the shape of a spaceman’s helmet from the 1970s.”

“The vision I loosely had was to make an electronic record that had a communal warmth and almost ceremonial or ritual feel. I wanted to examine the relationship of our archaic minds in the trappings of the modern world,” Turner concludes. “What the Videosphere also symbolizes for me is the oneness of humanity and community, prevailing.”

Lake Turner - Videosphere

Keep the Light Inside the House

Lovesick (Epokhé Remix)

London Wants You There

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If This Is It

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