Premiere – Plant43’s ‘Phosphorescent Headlights’, from the forthcoming Luminous Machines album
Let ‘Phosphorescent Headlights’ light up your life
Luminous Machines is the eighth album by UK based Emile Facey, recording under his Plant43 alias. It’s made up of eight dancefloor tracks and eight cinematic interludes, all of which are inspired by visits overseas to play live in 2023.
Facey has shared the distinctly dancefloor stylings of ‘Phosphorescent Headlights’ from the album, due out on his own Plant43 Recordings label on February 5.
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He told us: “The cinematic interludes which make up the rest of the album came about during the same trip to Berlin In April 2023. I arrived for a gig at Tresor with a whole day to spare and there was an atmosphere in the city that I felt compelled to capture. It was a warm but grey and rainy day, the neon lights glowing faintly in the mist as people rushed from door-to-door under umbrellas, trams were quietly gliding in and out of an elevated station platform while various other smaller vehicles busily scurried around the entrance to a giant shopping mall just outside the window of my compact hotel room. I opened my laptop and began writing a series of short tracks while I was waiting to go to the club for sound check, soundtracking the scene.
“While I was doing this it occurred to me just how much different forms of transport are interwoven with our lives. In so many ways vehicles are empowering for humans and we rely on transportation for so much and yet we urgently need to change our relationship with fossil fuels. Surely, I thought, human ingenuity can create new machines which transport us around without polluting our planet?
“When I was back home I realised that I had 16 tracks that worked together as a whole. I’d experimented before with putting short beatless tracks on my electro records, adding a bit more atmosphere, and my instinct was to put them all on the double vinyl edition. However, having just played at some events where DJs were playing vinyl, I wanted these records to be DJ friendly. The solution I landed on was to create two different versions of the album, the eight dancefloor tracks on the vinyl and the cinematic interludes completing the sixteen track digital, cinematic edition. Clocking in at an hour long, together they form my soundtrack to those Luminous Machines I was dreaming of in Berlin.”
Vinyl buyers won’t miss on those eight more cinematic tracks either – they’ll get a download card for the full 16 track release.