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Maceo Plex Essential Mix Saturday 2-18-2012

Maceo Plex - Essential Mix aired 17-2-2012 - Radio 1

Tennis - Monocraft (Your Love Is Alright)

OUT NOW - http://po.st/WhatIMightDo

With what might turn out to be one of the biggest tracks of the year, the massive 'What I Might Do' by Ben Pearce is here. Solomun, Seth Troxler, Jamie Jones and Pete Tong are all already on board with championing this slick combination of soulful urban vocals and irresistible grooving deep house. It has graced danced floors from Berlin to Ibiza and is quickly developing into a runaway train... We're especially pleased to be exploring new genres with one of the biggest tracks of the year so far.

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Ben Pearce - What I Might Do

Unofficially unreleased Remix | For promotional use only | Not for sale
This version is not mastered.
Original Track: Klangkarussell - Smoothie | Unreleased

Klangkarussell - Smoothie (Kool & Kabul Remix)

“When I was 18 I had those albums you’d escape with. When we were making the Footprintz record that was really our aim – to produce an album that kids can listen and escape to”.

Every journey has its beginning, and as the opening chords of ‘The Things That Last Forever’ give way to a hypnotic bassline, you know you’re on your way. Basslines form a key part of the Footprintz sound, acting as an anchor from which vocal melodies, synth lines and warm chords weave around in an often psychedelic style. Debut single, ‘Utopia’, exemplifies this ethic with its synth flirtations and optimistic vocal musings adding layers upon a solid core.

As Clarian and Addy say, “We wanted to work around a concept of escaping the confused years of growing up. 16-25, those are the years where you’re figuring yourself out, going through the motions of meeting different people and finding new things”. Tracks like ‘Uncertain Change’ and recent single ‘Dangers of The Mouth’ tackle this subject head on, focusing on the insecurities that arise from growing up. ‘Zanzibar’ takes a lighter approach, touching on the innocence of youth that brings with it, its own simple pleasures.

What becomes apparent throughout ‘Escape Yourself’ is a real craftsmanship to Footprintz’s songwriting. Each track reveals a little more on each listen, aided by the slick production work, done predominantly by the guys themselves in their Montreal bunker studio full of analogue equipment, odd instruments and a fridge laden with ‘special brownies’; which goes some way to explain a noirish-haze that permeates through the album.

Having met at an afterparty aged 15, Clarian North & Adam Hunter have experienced most of their adult life together. ‘Escape Yourself’ distills their experiences, wraps them in a warm analogue fuzz and shares them with the listener. You join them on their journey, and deep down they hope it helps you shape your own.

TRACK LISTING

    A1. The Things That Last Forever
    A2. Heaven Felt Like Night
    A3. Utopia
    B1. The Favourite Game
    B2. Private Enemy
    B3. The Invisible
    C1. Uncertain Change
    C2. Zanzibar
    C3. Dangers Of The Mouth
    D1. The Fear Of Numbers
    D2. The Nightingale
    D3. Keys To The Sky


You can pre-order it here: http://www.juno.co.uk/ppps/products/481654-01.htm

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