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Switching seaside ambience for a sound shaped by inner-city living, Atelier’s second full-length studio album, Lights Towards The Exit, channels the mood of a sleepless cityscape.

Lights Towards The Exit is Atelier’s second full-length studio album. After the release of Varsam Court at the end of 2019 on Lossless, run by mentors and friends Mathias Schober and Thomas Herb, the duo experimented with different ideas in the studio, and at the start of 2020 a common thread began to appear between a few of the tracks which laid the foundation for the sound of their second album.

Both Alexander and Jaś moved to Berlin in the period before the release of Varsam Court from their hometown of Cape Town, South Africa, where their first album was written and recorded. Moving provided some challenges, particularly with what was the most essential equipment to bring from their previous studio set-up, but those limitations proved to be useful in incorporating new instruments and techniques to the recording process.
Lights Towards The Exit was written and recorded in different spaces in Berlin – from bedrooms in apartment blocks to three different studios across the city. The different locations all had a specific ambience – such as 4th- and 5th-floor bedrooms with busy street views; a studio with no windows in a typical old Berlin backyard complex forever under threat of being sold and gentrified; and a bigger studio with windows on the opposite side of the corridor overlooking the backyard of a mechanic workshop. The final details and edits were completed in Atelier’s current studio, in a contrasting area surrounded by office blocks, plazas, 9-5ers and, most importantly, their friends and colleagues.
Swapping the mountains, sea and seclusion for tall buildings, backyards and a new community, Lights Towards The Exit channels the sensation of being surrounded by people, but still feeling like you're on your own. The album was written through three years of cold winters, sweaty summers and a period where the world stood still during the pandemic. Frustrated with the cease of momentum, but still optimistic, Atelier disappeared from public view, abandoning social media to focus on recording, songwriting and experimentation. It was a difficult time: the duo longed to perform and continue producing music, and the imposed limitations sometimes felt like an impossible obstacle. Ultimately, though, this would provide unexpected inspiration and influence the sound and direction of the new album.

The sound of Lights Towards The Exit is not a departure from their first album, but a progression: influenced by the new surroundings in the duo’s adoptive city, Atelier’s second album is an ode to first-time experiences, new languages, challenges, club culture and the shift from youth to maturity, as well as a balm to those stuck somewhere in between. The overall sound is a lift not in tempo, but in energy, matching the openness needed to make a new start in a new place.

All tracks written, produced, arranged and performed by Atelier - Jás Miszewski & Alexander Inggs
Mastered by @mathiasschober
Artwork by @davidkochs  
Cover Photography by @alexanderinggs 
A&R: Mathias Schober & @thomas-herb-1 
 
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Biographie
Thomas Herb built a strong reputation as a DJ when it’s about merging soul-injected house, techno and disco into a musical journey. At the clubfront Thomas' holding a steadily expanding schedule – so he can be found performing at selected spots in- & out of his hometown: Pimpernel (Munich), Gewölbe (Cologne), Institut Für Zukunft (Leipzig), ://About Blank, Sisyphos and Heideglühen (Berlin), Batofar (Paris), Zukunft (Zürich), Frank Wiedemann & Ry X's Sacred Ground Festival, Fiction NYC at Analogue Brooklyn and Cityfox at the Brooklyn Mirage (New York), CirQ (Venezia), Tunnel (Milan), Audio (Geneva), Minimüzikhol (Istanbul) or Lux Frágil (Lisboa) - are some selected examples. Over the years Thomas Herb has performed alongside artists like John Talabot, Dixon, Ame, Carl Craig, I:Cube, Soundstream, Karizma, Move D, Deetron, Osunlade or Gerd Janson and many more, gaining invaluable experience and inspiration.

Besides his DJ activities Thomas Herb is busy curating for and contributing to Lossless – the record label he’s running with longtime friend Mathias Schober. With the latter he’s also teaming up for productions, remixes and occasional b2b DJ-set’s under their SBTH moniker.

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LL1232 - Atelier - Lights Towards The Exit (Album Snippets Onefile)

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