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Premier: Route 94 Presents His First New Music In Two Years - A Brand New Day EP
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"I would say to people, don’t expect one thing, cos you’re not gonna get one thing. You’re gonna get everything that I feel."When you say about going out to these clubs and experiencing what you’re enjoying, can you pinpoint any specific places you’ve gone where you’ve really connected with it? fabric every time I go. Obviously. It’s quite rare. Because I’m in so many clubs and around it so much, a lot of it is quite draining. So for it to actually be a proper vibe it honestly does have to be quite special. So it doesn’t happen too much, but when it is amazing, it’s amazing. It’s also always really random places that catch me off guard, I think, when I really enjoy myself and properly get in to it. When I’m with my friends, and everything’s right. A club called Vetro in Barcelona is amazing, it was 2 years ago and I still remember it so it must’ve been bloody amazing. And fabric. Seeing people like Ricardo and Mathew Johnson, it’s always gonna be good isn’t it. For me they’re musical knowledge boxes so it’s good to go and see someone like Ricardo play cos you’re like, fuck what’s that, they’re all absolute bombs. It’s element of surprises and it’s also finesse. How on earth, whenever I’ve seen Ricardo, he’s always been fucking sick and Matthew Johnson as well, and loads of other people. For Mathew as a producer and Ricardo as what he plays in a set - they’ve both mastered the art of what they do, and I don’t think that many people can do that. They’re inspirations cos there’s mystery, and also they’re not just big because of being on the internet and doing silly things to get attention. I respect the fact they keep it real. I know it’s about having fun but it’s music, we’re not circus freaks, like (laughs) keep it a bit more real man, people need to chill out. Can you pinpoint how your sound has evolved? It’s just become more refined. More skill, more depth of knowledge around producing, making music. I just got better at making music, technically. It’s like getting thrown in at the deep end of the pool, you’re gonna have to learn how to swim really quickly and its been an amazing journey. Also it’s a completely different process working with hardware as opposed to just making tracks on the computer. It’s a lot more hands on. I’ve also learnt that it’s not just a walk in the park to move your studio [laughs] that’s a whole other thing. It took about 6 months to get my studio up and running. And it’s still not 100% per cent there cos it is super technical. I guess for other people it’s not, but for me it is - I mean, 3 years ago I was sitting in my mum’s house in my bedroom making tracks on a Dell PC, now I’m sitting my house and a five or six metre walk away is my studio with about 30 synths and loads of drum machines and all this crazy stuff. It’s like a museum, for me I guess with my studio, it’s just some people collect Star Wars toys, (laughs) some people collect, I don’t know, baseball cards, stamps, some people collect records, I’ve got a few (records not stamps), I wouldn’t call myself a collector. Some people do that, I choose to buy music equipment and that’s what makes me happy. I think it’s a good thing, even if I don’t even get to use some of the stuff, it’s like a piece of history. Some people might not know what to expect of your studio sound now so they don’t really know. There’s this mystery… Well I guess you shouldn’t expect one thing, you should expect however I feel. I could wake up tomorrow and be like, angry so I put out some angry techno (laughs) or I could wake up really happy the next day and put out some happy techno and then I could wake up feeling funky and make something super funky. So really just however I feel. I would say to people, don’t expect one thing, cos you’re not gonna get one thing. You’re gonna get everything that I feel. So can you tell us a bit about the tracks on the EP like when were they made? Was there anything in particular that inspired them? I thought I’d give a variety of stuff that’s not necessarily all on the same page because I didn’t wanna just…I’d rather reflect… So at first it was 3 completely different tracks then I listened to them all together and all 3 in a row sounded industrial and dark, and I was like, is that what I wanna come back with? After all this time, and that’s not where I’m at at all. It’s part of me but I didn’t wanna just put that and portray myself as that. The 1st track called A Brand New Day, I made that in my new studio a few weeks ago - by the time this interview goes out it’ll be 3 weeks ago. So the 1st track is really new. It’s me playing with new stuff, seeing what I can make and that’s what I came up with. I think it would be great to share something that is really really current. The 2nd track Caramel I don’t even know when I made that - it’s something I found on my old computer, probably made it last year. It’s quite a random track, bit disco’y, bit weird, but also really happy and summery. It’s something that was knocking around - it might not be super cool, but I fucking like it (laughs) The 3rd one is a track I made when I was living in Crystal Palace just before I moved to London Fields, literally the night before. I had one night to finish 3 tracks, the night before I moved my studio so I stayed up all night with favours, from my friend (laughs) and I knuckled down and finished all 3 of these tracks. And that was one of them, so I thought I’d include that because that was just before I moved, and when I moved, my studio was down for ages. So it’s literally in the wrong order. The first track is now, the second is oldest, and third is just before I’d moved. It’s a mixture of different times. Why have you decided to give it away? I thought it’d be a nice way to ease back into it. I haven’t put anything out in ages, and I thought coming back into it, you have more freedom with fabric. That and it’s a nice thing to do. I thought why not just give people some music to listen to for free and instead of finding a label and finding this and finding that and doing this and doing that, I thought I’ve got these tracks and I wanted to give them to people, to see what people’s reaction is, see how people take them, instead of trying to make money off it. I have an affinity with fabric so I hopefully trust people will get it. So yeah, it’s an honour for fabric to do it.
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