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november 2021 mixtape

The first single released ahead of the self-titled Havana Swim Club album, out June 11th

Lagoon

We've all been in a room with no way out. Wether it be in relationships or falling back into bad habits. This room is Luke's room and you have the key.

This is a single from my debut album ‘Who do you want to be, L.A.Byrne?’

‘Who do you want to be?’ - What a question. Throughout our lives it appears again and again. It is both a question we ask ourselves and one that is asked by others. Unfortunately, there is no simple answer and do we ever really know? In this debut album I have put forward this question to my best friend and vocalist Luke, L.A. Byrne.

Together, we explore Luke’s life over the past three years, with the pressure of turning 30, causing a mixture of angst, uncertainty, and a feeling of failure. With moving to Denmark pre-Brexit, he finds himself stuck in limbo, with a clouded sense of belonging and identity. We reflect on his relationships back home in Yorkshire and how they intertwine with his life and relationships here in Denmark.



In my home studio in Copenhagen’s northern district, Nørrebro, we spent 18 months mapping out this period of Luke’s life, listening to a mixture of Motown, House, hiphop and RnB - the record definitely nods to all these genres. We spent many nights in smokey Bodega’s, imagining what this record could be, and more often than not, the headaches from the night before shaped what the record became.

This is a multi-genre record that acknowledges music from both the past and today. Driven by the Korg minilogue synthesiser, soul samples and a TR-8 drum machine, I tried to encapsulate everything that has inspired us to make music. You could call it a modern interpretation of the past, with nostalgia echoing through the music, Luke’s life and my own.

So ‘Who do you want to be?’

The Room

Although “End of the World” isn’t Gulfer’s first pandemic song, it’s their first that explores our collective adaptations to new realities. Over intricate call and response guitars that seem to fold in on themselves, Vincent Ford sings of themes parallel to the end of the world: selective memory holes; playing with fire without a care for consequence; and finding your own new ways to cope and just get through the day. End times be damned, “End of the World” is decidedly more melodic than punk, with hooks that demonstrate the band’s ability to write songs on any part of the experimental rock spectrum. Its keenly constructed rhythms keep Gulfer’s compositions unpredictable and inventive, perhaps a figurative mirror in which the band can optimistically see a way out of the impending end of the world.

Gulfer - "End of the World"

Waste My Time

Oxygen

Whole Lot of Love

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Apple Music ~ https://music.apple.com/us/album/cant-be-yours-forever-single/1591978471
YouTube ~https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NtXOWLY71k

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Can't Be Yours Forever

In the wake of his critically-acclaimed single 'Desert', multi-talented producer WaTa join forces with Augustine Dunn on catchy electropop chill tune ‘On My Way’. Nothing but unique !
Available everywhere 👉 https://smarturl.it/wataugmyway

On My Way

WaTa & Augustine Dunn - On My Way

Dino Disco

Orange Guava Passion - Dino Disco

Love When We Get High

Can we blow on each other
Some air until we see the planet on fire
The smoke is just a fog but grey only covers
The brain is not asleep
It burns in the eyelids

Ah 

Just the time for another
Of our sleepless night on the bridge to the stars
And trying to stop the ink from starving the old page
Then bringing down the moon to wake up a lost kid

Ah

Are we moving together 
Or maybe it’s just a tale to feel slightly better
If no one in the end looks after the other
As long as they have all the drugs
To shut down and harness

I’m collecting the courage
To lead and not oppress your heart
When you need to scream louder
Now the shame is hard to see here
Now the shame is hard to see here 

Ah 

Can we blow on each other
Some air until we see the planet on fire
The smoke is just a fog but grey only covers
The brain is not asleep
It burns in the eyelids

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On The Lookout feat. Raffaella

Every Single Day

Written by Angus1 and Elizabeth M Drummond
Produced by Angus1
Mixed by George Nicholas: https://www.gnicholas.net
Mastered by Matt Colton: https://www.thisismetropolis.com/engineers/matt-colton/

Artwork by Matthieu Venot: http://www.matthieuvenot.fr
Released by Kitsuné Musique

Bound (feat. Elizabeth M Drummond)

Retro Kid, AKA Jake Juba, is a UK-born electronic producer based in Copenhagen. 

Playing around with the Indie electronic genre, he produces left-field dance, poking at the sub-genres of all things electronic, including garage, techno, and house.

Jake thinks of music as creative building blocks, sticking together his favorite samples to form a playground of sounds.

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