"Run" is the first Single of Rookley's debut LP "Playground" which is going to be released in Spring 2022.

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Playground

The sound aesthetics of 'Playground' wants to restore Rookley’s dimension, made of dark, isolated environments, which echo his inner world. Where introspection is combined with the anger and anxiety of those who do not feel at ease in the here and now. Victim and executioner of an imprint made of dissatisfaction and the constant search for a peace that does not come. In the darkness and the discomfort, there is tension and, at the same time, warm abandonment, reassurance. The care for sounds and evoked emotions is the result of research aimed at achieving the exact representation of visceral, intimate, and extremely sincere sensations. There are no filters, everything is authentic, exposed living flesh, made up of significant experiences, alienation, nostalgia for an unwritten future. The language is personal and hermetic, but never encrypted.
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releases March 25, 2022

All Tracks composed & produced by Rookley. Mix by Francesco Donadello (Vox Ton). Mastered By Arnold Kasar (Calyx Mastering). Photography by Gaia Pallone. Designed By Julius Klaus. Published and Distributed By Aimend

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Outro

Dockyard

Panic

Parasite

Garage

Warriors

MIX NOODS RADIO

The story of ‘Melatonin’ is about a night without sleep, and the exacerbated rhythm of the creative working process. It’s a split between anxiety and celebration, introduced through the pressure of feeling, and the release by a dancing crowd. It is danceable, Melatonin is a track that moves the heartbeat [and your feet], yet also inspires the ambience of nostalgia, a hint of longing and desire.

Melatonin

The rising New-Yorker artist Rookley releases his 2nd single “Mechanic’s Alley" take from his upcoming EP “Weak or Absent Signals" on September 29th. The Single will be released on the Berlin based label AIMEND.
"Mechanic's Alley" shows Rookleys nostalgic interpretation of the urban lifestyle. It's a downbeat, ambient track with strong images of the founding days of the New York metropolis. Untouched by the development of the neighboring streets, the Mechanics' Alley still preserves it's 1930's atmosphere, with memories of street workers and the typical old red-brick buildings.

MGMT: patrick@aimend.de / malte@aimend.de

Mechanics Alley

Mechanics Alley (Free Download)

La Haine

RUSH

Konavle

Release date: 10th July 2020
Label: AIMEND

Obsidian

Rookley, sonorous incarnation of Brooklyn, has not always been a New York based Producer. Making all his way from a small city in the south of Europe, he finally found his vein, settling in a NY apartment. Rookley is connected to street art as much as to electronica, he mirrors atmospheres from all around the city and combines them in an organic and playful way, leaving one with the impression of how much Rookley knows himself as well as he knows the void, the one that's waiting, in all of us.
Rookley brings out the things that have to be said about the city but can’t, in his music. He wraps dark alley entrees into singing synth, street sayings into bass rhythm, and the colours he sees in compositions of time.
Initiated in NY, Rookley puts together his poetic view on life evolving on the street and blooming in the roughness of Brooklyn-style red brick. His sound can be described as organic, knocking synth-and-bass combos that go together with soft guitar blinks. Rookley has always followed a path of his own, even if it meant facing himself, and forgetting everything he had known to this point. He worked hard, to develop his own thoughts, mind and his sound. "I remember the order established in my mind". There is no face to the Rookley-project, in his desire to put music before everything else, the only connotations brought from him are the many videos, collages and street interventions. 

Rookley finds inspiration in: Jamie xx, Four Tet and Jon Hopkins.

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