House

House music doesn’t need to be complicated to be profound. In fact, the simple, escapist nature of house is not lost on me.

It’s for this reason that I feel a strong connection to house. House has a way of making life’s problems seem insignificant; and in all it’s simplicity, there is so much opportunity and freedom.

FOUNDATION is exactly that - straight-up house without apology. New tracks, reimagined versions of older material, all built around that essential groove that makes problems disappear.

This is simple, feel good music, which doesn’t warrant any explanation greater than that. From here, we can build so much. Here, there is safety. This is FOUNDATION.

Existential Funk was what came out when I stopped second-guessing myself.

2008 was a year when I couldn’t stop writing. I kept starting tracks in one genre and finishing them in another - minimal techno that wanted to be drum and bass, trip-hop that demanded breakbeat treatment, house tracks that went trance halfway through.

Most producers would call this unfocused. I called it honest.

The album title came later, but it fits perfectly. This was music about being caught between states - between genres, between moods, between who you were and who you’re becoming. The “funk” isn’t just the groove; it’s that unsettled feeling when you can’t quite pin down what you’re hearing, or feeling, or becoming.

“The disc has enough thumping bass and spacy synthesizer chords to please any trip-hop head.”

– URB.COM