![]() I wanted to try Ekhi’s vocals out, I liked how on my last record the vocals fitted with the electronic tracks.”ĭo you feel part of “the new house revival” everyone is going on about? What do you make of the “classic house” reissue boom, people remixing old Strictly Rhythm releases from the 90s and things of that nature? We’re really close friends and we play football every weekend over the years we’ve become a family. “Ekhi is the singer in Delorean, a Spanish band last year they made their album and toured the States. Tell me about the guys who sing on your album – Pional is your label mate on Permanent Vacation, but who is Ekhi? “When you hear real house, you can feel it. Not ‘timeless’, because that sounds pretentious, but timeless in that you can’t tell what year it was made.” No sense in the future, no sense in the past. Like when you listen to old albums from certain years, and they don’t make sense in the context of what was around them. I decided I didn’t want an album that sounded like 2012. The rest is all recycled ideas from older tracks. The last track on my album is more housey, I wanted a club sound that you could play out. ![]() So the first track, I wanted to have that sort of vibe, but it’s not directly influenced by them because it’s really more 80s, and that movie is filled with krautrock music. “The music is by Popul Vuh, really atmospheric. When he first arrives at South America… Have you seen the Herzog movie? I really love the soundtrack of Aguirre, the Wrath of God with the first track I wanted that sort of vibe. I put the things together that I like from the 70s, 80s and 90s and melted them together. “I don’t think there are really any specific influences for ƒIN. With so many styles on display, it’s very hard to work out what influenced you at times. I wanted to treat all the tracks with the same importance, since all have their function. A lot of albums these days have two singles and the rest doesn’t matter. And now different people prefer different tracks on it. I just didn’t want singles on there – tracks that could be more ‘important’ than other tracks – so that people would have to listen to the full set. I wanted people to travel through an album that was free of sudden firework displays. The album is chilled, no hard percussion tracks. “I decided the concept would be more relaxed overall, no big ‘highlights’ like ‘Sunshine’ or things like that. “I said to myself, I’m not going to make a house album, because that’s not what I listen to.” So I said to myself, I’m not going to make a house album, because that’s not what I listen to. Actually the only one I’ve listened to all the way through is Daft Punk’s Homework. I never listen to full albums of house music at home. “When I got the concept of the album in my head, I thought about what I wanted to do and what I actually listen to. So I left a couple of tracks off the vinyl pressing, but the LP comes with the CD too, so you still get them that way.”Īnd keeping with the surprises, it doesn’t feature a lot of, well, for want of better terminology, big house bangers like ‘Sunshine’. I like that feeling from the 70s where you can play four tracks on one side, five tracks on the other – like the old-school days. “Ah, okay… There’s 11 tracks total, I decided I wanted it to be able to fit on one single vinyl LP, therefore the vinyl version has less tracks. How many tracks are supposed to be on it? Okay first things first, the tracklisting of ƒIN really confused me. Over the next two pages, Talabot talks to FACT’s Mr Beatnick about his rejection of “fireworks”, his complicated relationship with hip-hop and the long lost romance of Soulseek. ![]() Entitled ƒIN, it’s deeply rooted in his beloved house music, but it’s not a dancefloor album. The extraordinarily talented, Barcelona-based producer, who has recently taken to hiding his visage with a piece of tinfoil – as you do – released his debut album this week. John Talabot is currently the proverbial hot property.
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