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Sasha - Airdrawndagger: Out August 5th
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After waiting for about 3 years for it, we'll finally have Sasha's debut album in our hands within about two months.
Here's the official press release from his site:
| quote: | Sasha, one of the most famous and revered DJs in the world is set to release his debut artist album on August 5th.
Sasha's long awaited debut album 'Airdrawndagger' takes the nose for the dancefloor's g-spot and combines it with the ears for a heartstring strumming melody, a smile inducing hook and dirty great b-lines to create a 69 minute symphony that sounds as wistfully enchanting doing the hoovering at home as it does reaching for the lasers on Saturday night. Like the best Sasha DJ set you ever heard, it has melancholy mixed with euphoria, downtempo introspection mixed with jump n' shout excitement.
"Recording this album is the hardest thing I've ever done," says Sasha. "The people I've worked with, like Tom from Junkie XL and Charlie May, I feel like my learning curve has gone through the roof. I feel as if I've been at university for the last year! I'm a bit of a perfectionist, but it has been worth all the time."
Thankfully, unlike most albums by hybrid DJ/producer/artists there are no half-hearted collaborations with pop stars, whether faded or up-and-coming, no hamfisted record company attempts to sell the Sasha brand to the general public via cred-hungry indie frontmen or ageing rappers in search of a wider demographic. "I haven't felt the need to have any massive collaborations with guest singers and other artists on this album - it's an album that's true to me and true to all the people who have heard me DJ or bought my mix albums over the years. This album is for them."
With Sasha what you see (or hear) really is what you get - the fact he so transparently believes in the music he's trying to push could well be one reason he incites such devotion in his legions of fans across the globe.
Across the 11 tracks, there's the time and space to reflect his love for music that rarely gets the chance to shine in clubs, whether that's punishingly gnarly breakbeats or glittering modern classical film scores. It's a symphony for all ravers that grew up but never grew out of chasing that buzz.
In March this year Sasha held a boat party at the Miami Music Conference. As dusk began to fall, Sasha took to the decks to debut some tracks from 'Airdrawndagger'. As its breakbeats and sub-bass kicked in and the wistful melodies drew the crowd of cynical industry heads towards the decks, hands edging into the air. 'Airdrawndagger' has passed its first dancefloor litmus test. The home listening exam follows soon. No revision necessary.
A new website was launched today to support all on-line activity: www.djsasha.com
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I for one, cannot wait. :D |
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| DJPrototypeX |
| ::jumps for joy!!!:: |
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| amit |
| damn i cant wait till this album comes out! this should be a masterpiece :) |
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| DJ-Hardware |
| Yay! now i can't get no sleep until august 5th :crazy: |
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| teo |
It’s one of the most eagerly awaited dance music albums of all time – the debut artist album from Alexander Coe, aka Sasha – and we didn’t want you to have to wait a moment longer. As soon as we’ve got hold of the album we’re telling you about it.
This is the world’s first track-by-track preview of one of the biggest albums of the year. Released on August 5th through BMG, Sasha’s ‘Airdrawndagger’ avoids pure dancefloor fodder in favour of a more understated, almost chilled out approach. It melds his love of breakbeat and soundtrack work and pays tribute to some of his biggest influences.
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‘Airdrawndagger’
1. Dremples 1:23
A short burst of shimmering, bleepy, analogue soundscape clocking in at just under a minute and a half. A warm-up to get your ears attuned.
2. Mr Tiddles 4:53
As with much of the album, ‘Mr Tiddles’ seems to pay tribute to an era in the early Nineties when artists such as Spooky and The Drum Club were at their peak. A cool, understated five minute introduction that unfurls with all the production manners of Future Sound Of London circa ‘Lifeforms’, it’s bass-heavy with loads of delay, like a Germanic minimalist cathedral of synthetic sound supplemented with massive, washing synth sounds.
3. Magnetic North 5:17
A bass pattern rises out of the darkness. A flurry of shuddering drums and shifting, haunting keys. This is where things move subtly up a gear with a glimmer of a nu-skool breaks rhythm track.
4. Cloud Cuckoo 8.26
A pure ethereal soundtrack with menacing keys is split by a tough West Coast drum pattern with an up-front snare sound. More deep, brooding, bass-heavy breakdowns with cascading synth patterns filtering down. Ends with a Jan Hammer/Miami Vice-style drum stab and melts directly into. . .
5. Immortal 4:54
A brooding, buzzing nu-skool bassline underpins this downbeat slice of breakbeat. Hovering around the 110 bpm mark, the track is covered in crisp, cut-up hi-hats (sounding like high-pitched scratching) with a rising and descending ‘horror movie’ hook line the creates a lot of tension. Includes another rippling bass breakdown. Wouldn’t sound amiss in a Meat Katie DJ set.
6. Fundamental 9:13
Dark, robotic breakbeat atmospherics with a touch of the Timo Maas in the bassline and lots of twisted filters. Morse code bleeps play in the upper frequencies. Really kicks in round the six minute mark and rides the same dark riff for a further three minutes. A Mixmaster Morris-ish take on current fixations with all things electro.
7. Boileroom 7:04
A looped-backwards brassy sample cycles round before exploding into a classic Sasha breakbeat – lots of space and contrast between pounding low notes and trebly rhythm track. High bell notes play against twisted electronic noises further down. A BT-style crescendo around the two minute mark reminds of the days when Sasha used to cane ‘Embracing The Sunshine’.
8. Bloodlock 7:53
The track that’s most akin to ‘Xpander’. A floor-shaking bass rumble growls along as more synth arpeggios cascade down. A hi-hat pattern plays left and right in the speakers and a marching pattern plays towards the end, rising in frequency. Very Orbital-ish and something of an updated tribute to the early sound of Sven Vath’s Eye-Q imprint.
9. Requiem 6:08
Like incidental music from Bladerunner, this track betrays Sasha’s love of movie soundtrack dynamics and looks to Vangelis for epic inspiration. Heavy delay cuts up an almost guitar-sound melody that descends into computer game bleeps that in turn fade to echo.
10. Golden Arm 5:45
A cute melody cycles round before the 4/4 bass kicks in with a very ‘Euro’ rhythm pattern. The bass and deep synth are linked in a rising and falling cycle while echoing noises play beneath. The closest thing to a pop song on the album.
11. Wavey Gravy 7:29
‘Wavey Gravy’ was previewed on Sasha’s boat party at The Miami Winter Music Conference and is the album’s most obvious contender for first single. Like Kevin Beber reworking one of Hybrid’s more symphonic excursions, this seven-minute cut is built on a strong rim-shot rhythm pattern. Evoking images of sunshine falling through leaves, this is another track with a touch of Vangelis about it, with a blissful, swooping synth melody that plays to fade.
i found these somewhere so here are...
cant wait till the release.. |
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| uwmadtrance |
This album is mint.
Wavey Gravy is a beautifully composed track, a great summer tune ... too bad it is not out on full release earlier in the summer. |
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| torontotrance |
| After years of waiting, it finally comes. I cannot wait myself because i feel this will rank in my top albums of all times. It will be a classic. |
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| uwmadtrance |
| quote: | Originally posted by torontotrance
After years of waiting, it finally comes. I cannot wait myself because i feel this will rank in my top albums of all times. It will be a classic. |
The album itself is very chill, but it is an amazing showcase of talent ... nothing you'd really hear out, but excellent to chill to ... as an album ranks this is probably near the top for me |
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| Ray_Finkle |
| I DLed it today and I love every single track on this album and will definitly buy it when it comes out in stores. |
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| k.k.d. |
| wow.... it'll be out on my bday... l33t ;) |
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| Noctone |
| quote: | | Thankfully, unlike most albums by hybrid DJ/producer/artists there are no half-hearted collaborations with pop stars, whether faded or up-and-coming, no hamfisted record company attempts to sell the Sasha brand to the general public via cred-hungry indie frontmen or ageing rappers in search of a wider demographic. "I haven't felt the need to have any massive collaborations with guest singers and other artists on this album - it's an album that's true to me and true to all the people who have heard me DJ or bought my mix albums over the years. This album is for them." |
LOL. Am I the only one who realizes this is a full-blown diss on Oakenfold?
Indie frontmen--->Perry Farrell
Ageing[sic] rappers--->Ice Cube
up-and-coming pop stars--->Nelly Furtado, Shifty Shellshock |
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| shoXx |
I think everyone should go and buy this album on the 5th August.
Support Sasha!
I know I will... |
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