I'm lucky enough to be having plenty of fanboy moments lately, and this next release is up there. I'm very excited to introduce a new project by three seasoned electronic music producers, Dennis White, Charlie May and Dave Gardner, as Quiet Places.
Between the three, their production roots go deep into some of electronic music's most important outputs of the last few decades. Be it performing live as part of Sasha's recent Refracted shows, their own individual projects such as Spooky, Sentre and Cosmonauts or remixing the likes of M83, The XX, Thom Yorke, Little Dragon or Elizabeth Fraser, they are no strangers to electronica.
Volume 1, born out of a whisky-inspired late-night laptop jam session in Somerset England, takes us on an uninterrupted 60 minute beat-less and immersive trip down the rabbit hole. Along the way we stop off in some familiar, and some not so familiar surroundings. Various characters talk of otherworldly experiences and journeys into deep space, both micro and macro, against a backdrop of hypnotic melodies and haunting electronic soundscapes. Dynamically the record moves between the polar opposites of pin-drop quiet and vast all-engulfing sonic black holes. Becoming, in essence, the soundtrack to a sci-fi movie that has yet to be made.
Volume 1 is available on Gatefold 2LP Transparent Vinyl (featuring vinyl-specific edits) and Digital download, which will include individual track edits and the intended continuous edit.
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