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FRITS WENTINK

Frits Wentink returns to the Clone Royal Oak series with a playful house EP packed with his signature rhythms, lush melodies and soft furnishings. "Spiritual Basslines" has a patented house shuffle, deep bass and nicely constructed keys and synths working in perfect harmony. "Eternity" has a bouncy b-line, intricate drum patterns and yearning vox; nicely peppered with simple synth stabs and a star-gazing arpeggio trailing through the mix. "Golf Cart Joyride" is a relaxed, atmopsheric house track with phazed perx, child like melodies and dreamy aesthetic throughout. "Olypiad" closes proceedings with a shoulder rolling deep house jam that'd make Kerri Chandler blush. Beautifully poised drums, suspended strings, stuttered vox and throbbing low end make this a late night club killer that's hard to resist. 

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01 Spiritual Basslines (club Mix)
02 Eternity
03 Golf Cart Joyride
04 Olympiad

Real House fans rejoice! The King of Swing, Frits Wentink is back on WOLF Music. Following on from last years ‘Remember That Feeling’ the prolific Frits steps up again with ‘Club Land Special’ for the second in the Frits x WOLF series. Doing exactly what it says on the tin, four special club ready cuts guaranteed to make you move.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Club Land
A2. Club Land (Alternate Mix)
B1. Crowd Control
B2. Run Run Slow

Frits Wentink & Erik Madigan Heck

Safe Passage

It is often said that the best art comes out of adversity, and so it is that producer Frits Wentink, photographer Erik Madigan Heck and actress Tilda Swinton have collaborated on Safe Passage, a fascinating audio-visual project born out of loss. Consisting of classical, choral, and electronic music in three movements, the gatefold album presented with a 40 page booklet of additional photographs and paintings.
Dutch producer and renowned innovator Frits Wentink helms the Will & Ink and Bobby Donny labels, builds synthesizers and beautiful controllers, and puts out always experimental, left of centre house music that pushes at the boundaries. This project initially started out as him attempting to musically illustrate the photography of American visual artist Erik Madigan Heck. The internationally renowned Heck is known for a lavish and experimental use of colour that has won him the prestigious International Center of Photography’s Infinity Award as well as make him a regular contributor to high profile media such as The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, and Harper’s Bazaar.

Midway through the project, Eriks mother was hospitalised due to breast cancer complications before also contracting Covid-19. By her bedsides and as a means to ease her passage, he repetitively played the first portion of the score, and then, once she passed, he decided to commemorate the music's function as a soundtrack for her transition to afterlife by naming it Safe Passage. The involvement of Academy Award–winning Scottish actress Tilda Swinton has lent the music an extra dimension of spirituality: throughout the album, she interjects whispered fragments of Heck’s poetry, blurring the lines between one phase of music and the next.

The music has three movements across two sides: Side A, Safe, has a sense of hope and reflection as it undulates from minimalist string and brass arrangements to ambient and dissonant classical piano. Side B, Passage, then depicts the start of the transition into the afterlife as the voices of a choral madrigal ensemble gradually diverge, then break down entirely before a grand tonal expansion leads into a frenzied crescendo of choral vocals, hardened dub techno and anxious rhythms that convey the violence of the soul’s exit from this world. Finally, a cathartic Epilogue resets and bids farewell with the gentle sounds of a piano.

Because of the global on-going loss of life as a result of Covid-19, Safe Passage has become a soundtrack in which many people will find solace as they remember the sad transitions made from this life to the next during this unprecedented time in history.

TRACK LISTING

A1. Movement 1
B1. Movement 2
B2. Movement 3


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