I did an extended edit of Shiva’s ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ featuring the sultry vocals of Jo Ann Harris, a one time backing singer for Bob Dylan in the 1980’s. I was sat in the studio one day and decided to play the original through my the Soundtoys Echoboy plugin and after that the edit came together pretty quickly, some vocals are truly made for delay. It’s out now in all good record stores, with the last of the 12″s on Bandcamp.
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.
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.
