Music Production - Details
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Fri 25 July |
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Black Affair |
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Crawdaddy
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The man behind The Beta Band and King Biscuit Time delivers his new project. The result is 'Pleasure, Pressure, Point' which is released this July - songs about obsession, documenting the beginning and end of a relationship, and rediscovering his teenage love for early house music and electro.
POD Concerts presents
BLACK AFFAIR
(new project from Steve Mason of the Beta Band)
Support: TBA
Friday July 25th
CrawDaddy – Harcourt St – Dublin 2.
Doors – 11.30pm
Tickets €15 (inc. booking fee) available from Road Records, City Discs, Sound Cellar and usual outlets.
www.myspace.com/blackaffair
Already picking up rave notices in the press, Black Affair's sublime debut - "Pleasure, Pressure, Point" – is released on V2/Cooperative Music in July, preceded by the irresistible single - "It's Real" - which comes backed by a fantastic PLAYGROUP remix….
For the whole of last year the man behind The Beta Band and King Biscuit Time was at work in his studio, writing songs about obsession, documenting the beginning and end of a relationship, and rediscovering his teenage love for early house music and electro, before flying to New York to mix the white-hot results with fellow maverick genius JIMMY EDGAR.
And how does it sound? Like a magical trip round the best 80s underground clubs… retro yet modern, dark yet euphoric, sexy and sophisticated… like the finest electronic soul. Some artists cut themselves off from the outside world when they're making a record, but Mason did the opposite. He plugged himself directly into a whole world of R&B, electro, hip-hop, house and techno. This specifically involved digging out old Jodeci, Montell Jordan, '80s electro like Kleer, Neneh Cherry's first album, early hip-hop a la The World Class Wrecking Crew and Detroit techno and weaving it all into his heady electronic mix-up. Some might also detect some classic 80s influences… shades of early New Order, Depeche Mode, Japan etc… while the idiosyncratic melodic style that Steve brought to his earlier work is still very much on display…
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