Future-Garage

This release is one of the hardest ones I’ve ever done. It carried weight I wasn’t expecting, haunting me. For months, these tracks sat unreleased. I kept coming back to them, until I stopped looking for reasons to hold them back.

“Knighthood” is a deeply emotional, ethereal-sounding track with intentionally hard edges. It began scattered, using old-school basslines and fragments of melody that didn’t yet know what they wanted to become.

Over time, something emerged - delicate, celestial melody taking shape in the broken beats. The creative process split into two equally compelling directions, and rather than choose, I let both versions breathe. The original maintains that organic development, while the VIP mix explores the same emotional terrain from a deeper angle, a couple semitones down and using a little more space.

“Dubstep” is maybe a misnomer here. “Future Garage” might be more accurate, but more important than the label are the influences; these include Burial and Jon Hopkins, a couple of artists whose work I really enjoy. This music is hard to describe because it’s much different than any electronic music that’s been produced in the last 20 years.

As the title implies, this is a floaty piece, but with a good pace. This went through a couple of revisions, but the end result is one I’m happy with.