My ‘Lovers Version’ of Melody Beecher is out now. I extended the Dub, took snippets of vocal from the original and added a heavy dose of reverb and delay to create a more tripped out excursion.
The Vinyl Factory Essential Releases
NTS plays from Secretsundaze / Macca
Boomkat Review
Juno Review
Piccadilly Records Review
Dubwise Vinyl Review
I head to Perth on 11th March for a 3 hour set for Move, tickets are here.
I don’t do many mixes, one a year usually, which helps to keep them fresh when i do end up doing them. One of my go-to mix series is from Planet Trip, so to add one to their catalogue really got the creative juices flowing. You can check the mix here.
There’s an Isle of Jura feature and interview with me now on Bandcamp that delves into the history of the label and highlights some key releases. ❤️ to Bandcamp for the support!
I feature on two forthcoming 12”s on the exceptional Emotional Rescue label, providing Jura Soundsystem reworks of Mataya and Adu, the 12”s are up for pre-order now on the label’s Bandcamp. Emotional Rescue remains one of my all time favourite labels and was a definite inspiration for my own @isleofjurarecords so its an honour to be involved in some releases on the label.
The album hit the number 1 spot in the Balearic charts on Juno and was also given an extended review in the weekly round up of the best album releases. You can read the product review of the album here.
My debut artist LP titled ‘Return to the Island’ is out 16th September on IOJ offshoot Temples Of Jura. The album was made during the height of the pandemic here in Australia and was very much influenced by the tropical birdsong heard in my garden studio here in Adelaide, field recordings of which made it into many of the tracks. The album traverses some of the styles that influence the label with a backbone thats’s rooted in Balearica with shades of Deep House, Nu Disco and Ambient along with some leftfield samples picked up on my digging adventures. I view music production in an almost meditative way, i love to get lost in the process, which is liberating but also dangerous as hours and days can easily be lost. In truth, releasing the music is my least favourite aspect of the process, but its necessary to justify the time to my wife that i spend in my studio! Its also good to get it out there so i can move onto the next one. I hope you will enjoy it.
I totally forgot to post this, but better late than never 😅. In November last year I spoke to Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy and did a guest mix for her Balearic breakfast show on Worldwide FM. We originally met 20 years ago when i worked at Amato distribution and it was great to connect and chat music once again.
At the start of the pandemic i did an extended edit of Afia Mala’s classic ‘Koma’ for Africa Seven’s sub label A7 edits, the 12″ of which is out now. To be fair the original is so good it would be quite difficult to balls it up, so I just Dubbed it out a little, extended the break and used parts of the vocal rather than the full chorus. It turned out great and was a real pleasure to do, you can check the full version here.
I’ve put together a mini compilation of rare instrumental versions of 5 sought after tunes that i play regularly in my sets. On the A side there’s a killer Island Disco cover of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Sexual Healing’ by Glen Adams & Finesse, then a super rare Boogie/Brit Funk version of Tippa Irie’s ‘Panic Panic’ from 1986 and the side closes with Special Occasion from Belgium with a previously unreleased 12″ instrumental version. Then the B side features the “Special” Club Dub version of Carol Williams ‘Can’t Get Away’ (From Your Love) that originally appeared on a promo only 10″ (it includes a great spoken word intro from Carol thanking all the Metro Area New York DJs for their support) and ‘Sin’ by La Palace De Beaute (a Larry Tee project from 1988) closes the LP in the form of a Jura Soundsystem Dub.
The LP was difficult to manufacture so is limited to a one off 500 pressing, the last of which are here on Bandcamp.
