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Co-written on their bus during EU/UK tour – NA tour soon follows
Out Now on Remember The Future/[PIAS] – Get it HERE / Video HERE
Beauty and the Bus? Sounds like a stretch, yet for all-live melodic/electronic trio Tinlicker, and producer/longtime friend & collaborator Helsloot, thousands of miles touring Europe in said vehicle saw them co-composing their gorgeously haunting yet danceable new collab single ‘Edge Of Forever’, out now on Remember The Future/[PIAS].
But then, when Tinlicker (aka NL’s Jordi & Micha + more recently UK’s Hero Baldwin), and Helsloot’s previous collabtracks have been such timeless successes, including ‘Because You Move Me’ (1 billion streams alone) and ‘Tell Me’ also with Hero (50mil+),the omens look good for the new cut.
Tinlicker have been touring EU/UK with their fourth album, ‘Dreams Of The Machine’ winning hearts & minds with their live performances of LP tracks ranging from high-energy dance fuel to portentous dub techno, to acid-drenched monster drops, to singing indie guitar, to 90s synth and more, with Hero’s heartfelt voice, all with diamond-sharp sound production, with Netherlander Helslootsupporting on tour, delivering deep, melodic house spiked with techno and disco.
‘Edge Of Forever’: deep/melodic house supplies layered emotive vocals topped by Hero’s beautiful haunting voice throughout, underpinned by a gentle breaksy beat behind pulsating reverb-rich basslines & melodic synth chords, speeding up into dance-frenzy peppered with staccato echoing stabs while the vocals soar soulfully above.
‘The guys were noodling around while I was looking through the great sweep of glass at the front of the bus, the landscape passing almost imperceptibly beneath us. There is something contemplative about travelling in that way; cities, towns and villages drift past, fields give way to forests, and before long you find yourself less aware of the places themselves than the quiet passage of time between them. Later Thomas (Helsloot) and I listened back to what had been started on the bus, pressed record and the lyric and melody emerged intact in a single take.’ Hero Baldwin
Upcoming North American 21-date Tour: come mid-September, the four artists will be touring NA, covering 9000 miles in their faithful bus together with their 250-piece live show set-up and full crew (see below for where/when).
‘Touring enlarged our world, yet as life became larger, the things that nourished me became increasingly modest. A close conversation, ridiculous card games. Seeing the dawn after working through the night. Silently looking out the front of the bus with people who have become family. These moments scarcely register beside the scale of our ambitions, yet possess a completeness. They ask nothing of us except our attention. The refrain ‘can you slow down time?’ is a recognition that life’s most meaningful moments are often the least conspicuous. They arrive without ceremony and disappear just as quietly, leaving us only with the hope that, for a brief while, we were awake enough to notice them.’ Hero Baldwin
Who knows what creative magic may emerge from all those miles together on the bus by November…
NA Tour Dates (tickets HERE):
16 SEP House of Blues – Chicago
17 SEP Saint Andrew’s Hall – Detroit
18 SEP History – Toronto
19 SEP History – Toronto
22 SEP 9:30 Club – Washington
24 SEP MTELUS – Montreal
25 SEP Roadrunner – Boston
26 SEP Brooklyn Paramount – New York
29 SEP House of Blues – Dallas
30 SEP Emo’s – Austin
01 OCT House of Blues – Houston
03 OCT Fillmore Auditorium – Denver
04 OCT The Depot – Salt Lake City
07 OCT The Van Buren – Phoenix
08 OCT House of Blues – San Diego
09 OCT The Wiltern – Los Angeles
10 OCT The Midway – San Francisco
13 OCT Knitting Factory – Boise
15 OCT Crystal Ballroom – Portland
16 OCT Vogue Theatre – Vancouver
17 OCT Showbox SoDo – Seattle
Tinlicker & Helsloot new collab single ‘Edge of Forever’ is outnow on Remember The Future/[PIAS]. Get it HERE. Watch the video HERE.
Tinlicker’s ‘Dreams Of The Machine’ LP is out now on Remember The Future/[PIAS]. Get it HERE.
