FIN

Tracklist 1. Depak Ine 2. Destiny (feat. Pional) 3. El Oeste 4. Oro y Sangre 5. Journeys (feat. Ekhi) 6. Missing You 7. Last Land 8. Estiu 9. When The Past Was Present 10. H.O.R.S.E. 11. So Will Be Now... (feat. Pional) Audio player b2b.goodtogo.de/article/player/1569763 First album from Barcelona's much heralded top producer John Talabot (Hivern Disc, Young Turks, Permanent Vacation). If there is one person, who has been causing a stir on the international club circuit recently, it is Barcelona's John Talabot. Already his debut šMy Old Schoolš (which is meant literally by the way) on Permanent Vacation in 2009 and shortly after that the single š Sunshine›, which he put out on his own Hivern Disc imprint, made him one of the most promising musicians of the Spanish electronic scene. And those two releases also already set the mark for John Talabot™s unparalleled music: raw, loopy, heavy on the kick drum, sample based, moderate on the tempo, distorted on the drums and light years away from the clean and ever revolving house sound of today. This unique style which also blends influences from afro beat, Detroit techno, Chicago house and cosmic disco, but also northern soul or the energy of Flamenco, immediately turned some heads around. James Murphy, †me and Aeroplane started including Talabot music in their sets like it was the most natural thing. However - and this is quite rare - he not only gained legions of fans in the house and disco community, but also amongst the leftfield pop and indie rock followers. NME and Resident Advisor both had šBreakthroughš features on John Talabot and he can be proud of a šBest New Musicš dubbing on Pitchfork. (Being rather elusive on showing his face in magazines or the web it also came to some funny rumors that John Talabot was the alter ego of a well-known techno producer from Detroit). At the same time he drew the attention of like-minded artists like James Holden and Luke Abott from Border Community, Blondes or Delorean, which lead to a bunch of fertile collaborations: Luke Abbott and Blondes remixed Talabot™s šSunshineš single , John Talabot remixed a track by Delorean and vice versa Delorean™s Ekhi contributed vocals to the track šJourneys š on John™s album). Another example is the Young Turks Label (home of Jamie XX, Holy Fuck, El Guincho or SBTRKT ) on which he released the šFamiliesš EP in 2010. It was praised beyond limits. Pitchfork for instance hailed: š„ where pop and house influences sweetly buffer up against one another to provide an unyielding sense of elationš and even brought Talabot a comparison with artists like Four Tet or Caribou. While staying true to his sound, John Talabot has nevertheless shown a constant evolution as a producer since his first release. He has traced a solid musical path that has turned him into one of the big references of European House and has made him also a highly in demand Remixer (for the likes of The XX, Francesco Tristano™s šAufgang› project, Shit Robot on DFA, Thaiti 80, Joakim or Teengirl Fantasy to name just a few ). A progression that now crystallizes in šƒin›, his first full-length album for Permanent Vacation. A record, in which the Barcelona mastermind sets aside the danceable immediacy to expand his stylistic palette more than ever. For that purpose, Talabot melts all the elements that have constructed his distinctive sound until now and makes them emerge from a new perspective, in which the construction of complex song structures, intricate rhythms and superpositions of ever-evolving melodies and atmospheres pick up the baton of the ša kick-drum and a sampler› philosophy of his initial productions. The result brings us 11 tracks (we should call them songs really!) dominated by dark ambiances, gaseous textures and bittersweet moods that, above all, reveal a kind of vivacity that™s really hard to find in contemporary electronics. šFin› is far from being a track collection. From the majestic opener šDepak Ineš to it™s solemn ending with šSo Will Be Nowš , one of the two tracks that features Talabot™s soul and label mate Pional, each song traces an overall dialogue with the rest, culminating a highly emotional journey through Talabot™s always compelling and unique musical vision.