Jay L enters the Blue Age

Stream the B-side track from the Bristol man’s upcoming return to the Idle Hands-affiliated label.

You may have caught Jay L serenading the sunset on the Bristol edition of Boiler Room last year while the annual Balloon Fiesta took off behind him. When he’s not busy soundtracking such picturesque scenes, the long-standing participant in the Bristol house music scene is often found running the Falling Up parties alongside Punch Drunk and Idle Hands alumni Andy Mac and Root Elevation soul boy Typesun.

A long-term fixture of West Country line-ups thanks to his excellent selecting skills, Jay L first stepped out as a producer with the 2012 12″ Looking Up Pt. 1 / Try Slung on Shanti Celeste and Chris Farrell’s BRSTL. The shuddering, dusty tones of his house output caught a buzz, with second-hand prices now reaching considerable figures for an artist with little else behind him, but in the mean time there has been but one brief outing with the sly single-sided white label Together that came out last year.

Later this month will see Jay L back on wax and back on BRSTL with Show Me/Blue Age, another two track serving of heady house music flushed with soul and we have the first public airing of the B-side track. Some eight minutes long, “Blue Age” certainly displays signs of a progression in the production department whilst keeping plenty of that rugged charm.