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Julian Lindsey brings you his superb new EP Don’t Know How To Change, available on Sound of Vast from 15th July, serving you up a timeless house music masterpiece.
Since Julian Lindsey slid smoothly into the New York House scene back in 2014, he has become renowned for his sharp musical intuition, slick selections and a symbiotic relationship with the crowd. He takes the groove on the record and transmits it to the groove on the dancefloor. Julian Lindsey has played many of the city’s defining rooms and parties, including Teksupport, Output, The Brooklyn Mirage, Signal, Elsewhere, House of Yes, and his very own event series, vyvn. Beyond New York, Julian Lindsey has appeared at festivals and cultural institutions such as SXM Festival, Elements Festival, and Womb (Tokyo) as well as Disco Knights and Distrikt at Burning Man.
Don’t Know How To Change is Julian Lindsey’s debut EP, as beautiful as the best cuts from the classic house music he plays in his legendary sets. The title track is smooth beyond belief, freaky house keys and a laid back soulful vocal work with the bass to make your hips start to move before a house backbeat takes you by the hand onto the dancefloor. At 3:15 mins, Julian Lindsey plays his ace card with a TB-303 acid tweak drenched with emotion. Just superb. The Subb-an Dubmix stays true to the original, claps and snares bring a dancefloor immediacy, the vocal line chopped to bring the funk. Ibiza will go wild for this dubmix.
Miami Air starts with a Funktion-1-lovin’ deep velvet groove. Close your eyes and you can almost smell that dusky, warm Atlantic coast beach at sunset, driving with the roof down as the lights start to twinkle across Vice City and the bass drum beats through your fulcrum. A perfect companion for Don’t Know How To Change. Francesca Lombardo’s mix of Miami Air takes Miami Air from Dusk to deep night, A mini Moog 4/4, rimshot claps and a vintage synth line guides you past midnight onto the dark, humid dancefloor where bodies writhe.
The fifth and final track, on digital only, Don’t Know How To Change (Subb-an Remix) hits like a Balearic pool party, millennium synths turned to bliss, proving Subb-an’s versatility as a remixer. Slip on those shades, slap on the sunscreen and turn Julian Lindsey up to 11.
Julian Lindsey tells us more: “The EP is really the story of my relationship with house music and a snapshot of where I was in my life when I made these tracks. I have an obsession with house music that is borderline unhealthy. The sound is rooted in 2010s house music, which is the era where my love for house music really developed. I’ve always had a thing for drivey house with vocals and that’s what I was going for here. Seeing Crosstown Rebels at Ice Palace WMC around 2013 is when I knew I’d found a sub-culture and genre for me. It was an absolute pleasure working with Subb-an and Francesca Lombardo on the remixes. I look up to both of them and they’ve been massive inspirations throughout my music story. Having them involved has been unreal.”
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