Upfront 077 / August 8, 2016

Youandewan

Upfront 077 sees UK dance music pedigree Youandewan showcasing musical fluency & finesse - solid proof of a seasoned pro's ability to deliver pure class.

About this mix

This mix contains unreleased music I’ve written over the last two/three years. Some from forthcoming goodness on !K7Aus Music, Andy Hart’s Voyage Recordings and Cab Drivers’s Eclipser Chaser. It was great to get the opportunity to do this mix – to blend a good chunk of the music I've got in the pipeline, along with some of the more club-orientated tracks I’ve also got coming out soon.

Thanks for the invitation, and hope you enjoy!

Ewan Smith

Boiler Room says...

Since his 2009 debut, Youandewan's name can be cited aplenty in the story of UK house music's uprising. A long journey has been travelled. One that not only spans a comprehensive breadth of British dance music's recent history, but also accommodates its temperamental nature – without once falling off the bandwagon.

Displayed in this week's Upfront is Ewan's musical fluency. One that has been gradually nurtured over the seven-odd years of music making now under his belt. Take the second track [comes in at 4:33], low swung and saturated with hip-hop flavour and purple chords that only an experienced producer could experiment with confidently. Or perhaps the cerebral reedy chords of track no. 5 [heard at the 22:13 mark] – almost Lone-esque, leaving an ethereal glow long after the melody has faded. A tricky skill to cultivate, but done with finesse by Ewan – the ease at which his latest creations flow is of a newly appointed master at his craft.

Ewan's music epitomises good electronic music at its most coherent – and how more concise can it be than in a continuous mix. A feast for the senses, this Upfront is the work of a natural creator truly in his own element. And the result is epic.

Tracklisting

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