Sample/buy it HERE (digital) or HERE (CD) (only ~$13.00!)
Slacker is dropping a bomb on us this February, his first LP...and it won't be proghouse (barring the rare exception perhaps) but everything downtempo.
Slacker will issue his first full-length release in February.
The Slacker project was originally a collaboration between Shem McCauley and Simon Rogers, with the pair releasing progressive house tracks on labels such as XL, Loaded and their own Jukebox In The Sky imprint. Now the moniker represents McCauley alone, and after a two year break in Thailand, he's back to the UK and ready to get back into the music scene.
Instead of concentrating on the progressive house of his past, McCauley has instead decided to concentrate on crafting a full album in the vein of classic '90s works like The KLF's Chill Out and Future Sound Of London's Tales Of Ephidrina. "Stylistically, it might sound like a big change," explains McCauley, "but for me, it’s like expressing the stuff I was never previously able to." The resulting work is entitled Start w New Life, and is quite a diverse effort, encompassing beatless piano tracks ("I Have No Memory"), slo-mo funk ("Just As I Am"), skittering Arthur Russell-sampling breakbeat ("Come With Me") and lush choral electronica ("Help Me Here").
Tracklist
01. Start A New Life
02. I Have No Memory
03. When I Was A Child
04. Come Back Home
05. Just As I Am
06. Come With Me
07. Hymn To Her
08. See The World
09. A Million Dreams
10. Help Me Here
11. What A Dream I Had
I'm excited...another one of the proghouse heavyweights from the 90s.
Some previews available to be heard here: http://www.myspace.com/slackershem
Redd
Holy cwap, looking forward to this!
SPANIARD
I'll give it a listen. He was great with the prog sound of the 90's so hopefully he's just as gifted with the electronica sound.
stripped99
Tasty!
UWM
Awesome.
vinnie97
quote:
Originally posted by SPANIARD
I'll give it a listen. He was great with the prog sound of the 90's so hopefully he's just as gifted with the electronica sound.
He is ;)
SuspicionVandit
slackerrr!
yeah!
vinnie97
I nearly forgot, his Myspace has 5 samples: http://www.myspace.com/slackershem (and apparently Ipoons has them available exclusively for now).
Redd
judging by the samples this is a definite buy
SYSTEM-J
Very interesting.
enydo
Big Slacker fan so I'll definitely be looking into this.
