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Main release: https://bit.ly/dust-mixes
Remix: https://bit.ly/dust-rmx
Australia’s electronic composer extraordinaire Jamie Stevens brings you his incredible single Dust, available 15th August on Music To Die For Recordings; taken from his debut solo album Beginner’s Guide To Floating (out 22nd August). Argentinian legend Hernán Cattáneo joins forces with Mercurio once again for a sumptuous remix which precedes it as a special Beatport exclusive release on 8th August.
Jamie Stevens is well known for being a founding member of Wollongong trio Infusion, one of the most important electronic acts to hail from Australia since the nineties, with tracks including their ARIA award-winning single Girls Can Be Cruel and album Six Feet Above Yesterday.
Every Jamie Stevens masterpiece pulls an emotion or feeling from inside of you, sometimes from places so deep inside you didn’t even know they were there. Dust is no different. Take some time to yourself. Find a really good sound system or headphones. Now press play and fully immerse in this masterful record.
As Dust starts, you feel the dreamy arpeggiated keys wash over you. You’re instantly transported behind the wheel of a 1981 Dodge Diplomat, forests stretching around you in a beautiful endless landscape, as you approach twin snowcapped peaks. But these snowy mountains are the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales.
Light-touch electronic snares join the party, waves of ozone-filled synths add so much texture that you feel the music like fog moving around you and enveloping your body. It’s a long time since we’ve heard this style of production done so well. This is electronica and indie dance music done so shoegazey that Jamie Stevens may have invented a new genre.
Then the vocals kick in. Brooke Singer’s effortlessly angelic voice was made for Dust. Could I reach you when you’re gone, across the borderline? I’ve been dreaming of this place… Brooke, also the lyricist, symbiotically absorbing the rich emotional tone Jamie Stevens needed on Dust.
Jamie Stevens explains “I was aiming for a widescreen, immersive feel; something with a vastness or ‘epicness’. It was a conscious nod to Shoegaze and that sense of being enveloped sonically. The idea of being a speck of dust fits perfectly, almost an allusion to existentialism.”
Can’t wait? Hernán Cattáneo’s incredible remix is out 8th August as a special taster. Hernan has been a long time supporter of Jamie Stevens and he invited him as a live performer to his huge 15,000 audience shows in Cordoba last October. So it makes sense that his remix is faithful to the original…with extra Cattáneo dancefloor cruise control added.
And on his debut album Beginners Guide To Floating: “I’d always wanted to make a solo album separately to Infusion, but until now, I was never quite sure what direction to take. As a solo artist, I’m known for club ready singles and remixes. I was very conscious of not wanting to make a strictly club-connected album. There are richer themes, textures, and ideas to explore and the album format was the best place to do that.” That’s what you hear on Beginner’s Guide To Floating. Pure bliss.
Buy / Stream ‘Dust’ single link: https://hypeddit.com/jamiestevens/dust-ep
Pre-order ‘Beginners Guide To Floating’ at https://hypeddit.com/jamiestevens/beginnersguidetofloating
