Wade into the watery visuals for the Jersey artist’s “You Ain’t Going Home With Me” cut from the forthcoming Dozens of Roses 12″.
When some artists turn to face the daunting prospect of their second album (or first, third, or any other for that matter) it can be viewed as an opportunity to dig deep and draw upon some new musical idiom they’ve not tackled before. No doubt some feel the pressure of expectation, not least if they have a fan base and supportive press that generally laud everything they have done before. Even if we don’t know how Joey Anderson felt as he worked on the follow-up to 2014’s After Forever, those aforementioned stereotypes of ‘album approaches’ don’t seem valid when considering his music at all.
The ongoing affiliation between the US artist and Dekmantel will see the release of a new record next month.
There was a hushed, reverential quality to much of Joey Anderson’s After Forever album when it dropped on Dekmantel earlier in 2014, and it’s a spirit that has embodied much of the East coast producer’s output since he first emerged some years ago alongside the likes of DJ Qu and Jus Ed. Not that the dancer turned producer has ever been afraid of a bite in his productions, but he’s always erred towards a more ethereal feeling in his tunes rather than anything too abrasive. That’s why on this release for DJ October and John Osborn’s TANSTAAFL PLANETS imprint the opening hit of “Head Down Arms Buddha Position” shocks with its ferocity as a positively rowdy square wave arpeggio blasts its way out of the speakers with a sweeping filter barely managing to keep the leering notes in check.
TANSTAAFL will release the New Jersey producer’s first EP of the year titled Head Down Arms Buddha Position.
The new festival will be held in a summer camp in upstate New York across the weekend of September 12-14.
Weighted with expectation after a surge of appreciation from the leftfield house music community, Joey Anderson steps up to deliver his debut album for Dekmantel. His style is one that seems perfect for a long form exercise, and yet there is a lack of pomp and ceremony that accompanies his approach, ensuring there are no lofty concepts to shoehorn his alchemical music into any recognisable place. Since his first appearances it’s been clear that Anderson is dancing to a different beat to his peers, which no doubt accounts for why he stands apart from any given scene or movement. Certainly he can be readily associated with fellow East Coast mavericks such as DJ Qu, but these are more notions of alliances rather than any identifiable characteristics.
Watch the video to Joey Anderson’s “She’s Afraid”, taken from a forthcoming split release on the producer’s Inimeg Recordings label.
Preview the fifth release from Appian Sounds featuring tracks from NYC pair Joey Anderson and DJ Spider.
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Joey Anderson is the latest producer to confirm New York’s resurgence as a dance music hub. Like Levon Vincent, DJ Qu and Fred P, Anderson does not conform to the city’s traditional house tropes, avoiding diva garage and far removed from the dense tribal house marathons of a Danny Tenaglia DJ set.
It feels like Joey Anderson’s daring and intricate house assemblages and Latency’s musical bravado were fated to meet for a short but utterly sweet twenty-five minutes in 2013. After all, both the New Yorker’s recognisable beat flex and the French label itself are only young contributors to the game, with the former having appeared on just over ten EPs in the last three years – a rather prodigious output compared to most of his other New York contemporaries – and the latter being on their second but already impressive release after last year’s magnificent Post Industrial debut from Hakim Murphy and Ike Release’s Innerspace Halflife project. All in all, two characteristically different spheres of music which are both young and raring to get their sound noticed and embedded into our neural pathways.
2012 was undoubtedly one of Julian Smith’s busiest years to date. His October moniker graced records for a dizzying array of high-end labels, from Skudge and Apple Pips to Aus and Simple, not to mention his own TANSTAAFL imprint. Interestingly if not entirely surprisingly, all those labels shared some kind of commonality, all dealing in the strange and mysterious corners of contemporary electronic music with a euro-centric focus. Now Smith’s first solo release proper of 2013 sees a move away from neighbouring turf to instead link up with the Brooklyn-based Voodoo Down crew, a whole ocean away from any familiar stomping ground.
Sit back and enjoy an hour’s worth of house music mixed by a modern master – Joey Anderson.
In the hands of large scale labels, remix EPs rarely come across as anything but transparent attempts to milk a track’s popularity for all it’s worth, with the licensing of FCL’s ubiquitous 2012 cut “It’s You” by Defected accompanied by any number of unnecessary reworks the most overt recent example. At the other end of the scale there are 12”s such as this one from Eerie Records, a label founded by London dwelling Italian Marco Shuttle last year with the intention of loosely mirroring the Jeff Mills model with Axis Records.