Our close friend and fellow Scot, now Ibiza resident, Pikes resident DJ and island favourite, 'For Mankind' (Russ Forman) had talked about doing a studio collaboration for some time. Last winter, we finally managed to get in the studio and make some music.
Drawn upon our mutual loves of house music, dub and weirdo dance music by the likes of African Head Charge, Larry Heard and Sun Ra. We also added sprinkles of influence from other oddball tracks that make up our more interesting sets. We spent hours just pulling and listening to records from all our collections and talking about music before hitting the studio.
What resulted from the session is a beautiful and exciting blend of everyone's taste - dreamy, minimal, almost techno synthscapes, New York oddball house that sounds like some lost Sleeping Bag test press to almost Música Popular Brasileira.
At one point Russ, (For Mankind) grabbed the mic and hit us with his best pidgin Spanish, this snowballed onto a few more tracks, so we felt it only right the LP should also bear his name. Russ' vocal came as a surprise to us all, loose, funky, wild and carefree, (like the man himself), with positivity and a message: This music is for everyone. We should all work together, help and contribute.
Our good friend Hanna (Philomenah) also brings her giant talent on Brazilian influenced 'I Can't wait', expect to hear a lot more from this Shetland-born singer on Athens of the North and elsewhere.
“Nice :)” Danny Krivit — Danny Krivit
“Feeling this in a rather keen manner.” Bill Brewster — DJ History
“Beautiful!” Dave Clarke — 2FM
“Exactly what I'm looking for... original, interesting and wild!” Dom Servin — Echoes Mag/Wah Wah 45s
“Lovely” Deb Grant — BB6 6 Music
“Absolutely love this.. Great work guys..” Pete Herbert — Music For Swimming Pools
“sleazy meditative! Love!” Louise Chen — NTS
“This is brilliiant - can hear the balearic spirit!” Tom Findlay — Groove Armada
“Lovin' the journey on this. Production is very nice.” Dr Bob Jones — Totally Wired Radio -The Surgery weekly
Our close friend and fellow Scot, now Ibiza resident, Pikes resident DJ and island favourite, 'For Mankind' (Russ Forman) had talked about doing a studio collaboration for some time. Last winter, we finally managed to get in the studio and make some music.
Drawn upon our mutual loves of house music, dub and weirdo dance music by the likes of African Head Charge, Larry Heard and Sun Ra. We also added sprinkles of influence from other oddball tracks that make up our more interesting sets. We spent hours just pulling and listening to records from all our collections and talking about music before hitting the studio.
What resulted from the session is a beautiful and exciting blend of everyone's taste - dreamy, minimal, almost techno synthscapes, New York oddball house that sounds like some lost Sleeping Bag test press to almost Música Popular Brasileira.
At one point Russ, (For Mankind) grabbed the mic and hit us with his best pidgin Spanish, this snowballed onto a few more tracks, so we felt it only right the LP should also bear his name. Russ' vocal came as a surprise to us all, loose, funky, wild and carefree, (like the man himself), with positivity and a message: This music is for everyone. We should all work together, help and contribute.
Our good friend Hanna (Philomenah) also brings her giant talent on Brazilian influenced 'I Can't wait', expect to hear a lot more from this Shetland-born singer on Athens of the North and elsewhere.
“Nice :)”
Danny Krivit — Danny Krivit
“Feeling this in a rather keen manner.”
Bill Brewster — DJ History
“Beautiful!”
Dave Clarke — 2FM
“Exactly what I'm looking for... original, interesting and wild!”
Dom Servin — Echoes Mag/Wah Wah 45s
“Lovely”
Deb Grant — BB6 6 Music
“Absolutely love this.. Great work guys..”
Pete Herbert — Music For Swimming Pools
“sleazy meditative! Love!”
Louise Chen — NTS
“This is brilliiant - can hear the balearic spirit!”
Tom Findlay — Groove Armada
“Lovin' the journey on this. Production is very nice.”
Dr Bob Jones — Totally Wired Radio -The Surgery weekly
“Groovy! Dig this collab”
JKriv — JKriv