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Influential British house DJ-producer Scott Diaz tees up a striking release that mixes the key ingredients of his career success to date more potently than ever. For Diaz, it’s all about soul, rawness and artistic integrity – about making real electronic music to move real people. As Life On The Outside exemplifies, that means connecting with music lovers across divides. This latest work reflects its creator’s feeling of not belonging to any one particular ‘house’ and of producing between genre lines as his head and heart instructs. Such honesty and openness is bang on for a world, today, where sounds continue to blur and anything is possible.

This extended EP is only the fifth release for Scott’s Brighton-based imprint Grand Plans since it opened for business in 2016. But that’s testament to the artist wanting a label that operates with true purpose and doesn’t just seek to make up the numbers. As the name suggests, Grand Plans is all about meaningful music-craft and big picture-thinking, and Life On The Outside is clearly the next, wave-making step on that journey. Here is a body of work set to outlast the regular electronic promo cycle - communicating the artist’s real feelings and emotions, and taking the listener on an altogether deeper, more profound dancefloor journey.

Opening cut Happiness Is The Truth provides compulsive early momentum, a slinky groove driven by swinging drums, snappy robo-key riffs, pert bassline and the slightest, expertly applied dash of UK garage. There is similar snap ‘n’ bounce to What You Do 2 Me, Diaz’s use of funky bottom-end and skippy, immaculately-programmed beats working brilliantly with those soulful keys and swirls of synth to create a suitably giddy, head-turning flow.
 
The album’s title track takes things deeper and plays to the career-long love Scott has had for jazzier, more introspective soundtracking. His smart interplay of synths, organs and gospel refrains across a subtle melody line is reflective yet uplifting, and delivers considerable emotional punch. I Once Was Lost, meanwhile, tingles spines and elevates minds by layering spiritual vocals (from the Amazing Grace hymn book), stirring strings and snatches of trumpet atop another fizzing hi-hat-led slice of house gorgeousness.

Song For Kelly treads tribal paths with deep swing and smoulder, a thoroughly hypnotic ride counterbalancing its muscular throb later on with the skilful introduction of delicate jazz key solos, piano play and xylophone loops. As the track’s vocal parts plead, this is truly eye-opening stuff. Heartbreaker, meanwhile, manages to be both moody and melancholic whilst soaring upon edgy synthesizers and dizzying vocal samples - an appropriately intense nod to the turmoil of love lost. EP closer Girlfriend is an elegant, upbeat finale, working piano and percussion around its 4-4 framework to fine effect with, as we’ve come to expect, buckets of feeling.
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All tracks written and produced by Scott Diaz at the Bomb Bunker, Brighton. 
Published by Black Rock Publishing. 
Mastered by Tank Edwards at Warm Audio Mastering. 
Artwork by Joe @ Push Visual. 
PR by Mainline PR. 
Video and social content by Patrick Gavaghan.

Life On The Outside

Scott Diaz - I Once Was Lost

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𝔽𝕣𝕖𝕟𝕜 𝔹𝕚𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕗𝕚𝕟𝕕𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕝 𝕚𝕟𝕟𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕖 𝕓𝕪 𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔. 
ℍ𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕗𝕖 𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔. 
𝕀𝕥´𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕨𝕒𝕪 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕥𝕠 𝕖𝕩𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕕𝕖𝕖𝕡𝕖𝕤𝕥 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤. 
ℙ𝕙𝕣𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕤, 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕕𝕤, 𝕝𝕖𝕥𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕤 𝕒𝕣𝕖 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕥𝕠𝕠 𝕗𝕖𝕨, 
𝔹𝕚𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕕𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕕 𝕠𝕟𝕝𝕪 𝕥𝕣𝕦𝕤𝕥 𝕚𝕟 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔. 
ℍ𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕒𝕪 𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤 𝕄𝕌𝕊𝕀ℂ, 𝕃𝕆𝕍𝔼 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕒𝕚𝕞.
ℂ𝕠𝕞𝕓𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕓𝕠𝕥𝕙 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕤𝕦𝕕𝕕𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕝𝕪 𝕓𝕖𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕒 𝔹𝕚𝕓𝕖𝕣:

𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕠𝕗𝕥𝕖𝕟 𝕔𝕠𝕟𝕗𝕦𝕤𝕖 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝔹𝕚𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕒𝕟𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕝 𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕠𝕪𝕚𝕤𝕙 𝕤𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕖𝕣.
𝕊𝕥𝕚𝕝𝕝 𝕣𝕖𝕡𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕤 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕪 𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝. 
𝕆𝕟𝕖 𝕕𝕒𝕪, 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕝𝕖 𝕖𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖 𝕡𝕚𝕔𝕜𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕙𝕠𝕥 𝕡𝕖𝕡𝕡𝕖𝕣𝕠𝕟𝕚, 𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕒. 
𝕊𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕘𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕤 𝕨𝕒𝕤 𝕠𝕓𝕥𝕒𝕚𝕟𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕦𝕣𝕜𝕚𝕤𝕙-𝕤𝕡𝕖𝕒𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕣𝕖𝕒, 𝕠𝕟𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕔𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕒𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣.

𝔻𝕦𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕦𝕝𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕕𝕖𝕧𝕠𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕠 𝕞𝕦𝕤𝕚𝕔, 𝕞𝕒𝕟𝕪 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕤 𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕣𝕘𝕖𝕕, 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕨𝕙𝕚𝕔𝕙 𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕟𝕠𝕨 𝕕𝕣𝕒𝕨 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕡𝕠𝕥𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕒𝕝 𝕨𝕙𝕖𝕟 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕪𝕚𝕟𝕘.

DJ / Producer / Remixer on Dungeon Meat / PIV / Defected / Simma Black / Large Music / Sub_Urban / D-Vine Sounds / Nervous / Grand Plans and more.

Creative Director: @nitelifeaudio.

www.scottdiazmusic.com

Bookings:
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House , Disco, Soulful and Deep sounds is the bubble i live in. If music be the food of love, play on. :)