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Relay - Inc. Skee Mask Remix

The ‘Fantasy’ EP saw Jacques Greene push further into his downtempo and ambient influences than ever before. Now he returns with a special club-tested, extended edit of key EP track ‘Relay’, alongside an incredible Skee Mask remix.

Said mix is frenetic, cerebral and progressive - pairing heavenly synth ripples with both jagged breakbeats and skitty jungle-esque rhythms. Swamped in rich pads and deep bass plumes it recalls the hedonistic & expansive bliss associated with labels like R&S, B12 and XL whilst injecting an urgent and forward-glancing take on vintage dance tropes.

In it's extended form. "Relay" is allowed all the space it needs to dance around that evocative bass and synth interplay. Glowing radiant, moving seductively, with perfectly poised breakdowns and drops; it's the glistening burst of tension and release that every dancefloor needs as it veers into post-peak exuberance and revelry.

'Immaculately produced and mixed, and profoundly effective - both for the pleasure centers it fires, and also for the associations it triggers. It feels like a genetic memory passed down across generations of ravers, encoded in their very DNA.' - Pitchfork.



TRACK LISTING

1. Relay (Skee Mask Remix)
2. Relay (Extended Edit)

Jacques Greene returns with an essential new work alongside Joel Ford, Satomimagae (RVNG) and Leann a Macomber.

"Fantasy" pushes Greene further into breaks and ambient house influences than ever before. Since releasing his last studio album, "Dawn Chorus", in 2019, Jacques Greene has scored the short film Exhaust, starring Jimmie Fails (‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’), Glenn Kaino’s installation piece ‘Tidepools’(alongside Nosaj Thing), and video game Home-school.

Jacques has released remixes for artists such as Para One, DC Salas, Amtrac, Kllo, Elohim, Kacy Hill and Montreal disco legends Lime. He's even released an NFT alongside single, "Promises" (!!).

Across six tracks, there's a delicate air of fluttery euphoria throughout, punctuated (and sidechained) with some deliciously dynamic breaks, electro and future-garage grooves.

'Finely-sculpted excursions into the hybrid house / garage / bass sound that he helped spark around the turn of the decade, an unwaveringly great set of tracks that are buoyant, melodic and pretty much mesmerising.'


TRACK LISTING

A1. Taurus
A2. Memory Screen + Fantas
A3. Restless
B1. Relay
B2. Sky River (feat Satomimagae)
B3. Leave Here

New album from Jacques Greene, “Dawn Chorus”. The record is a bold step forward and his most collaborative project to date, featuring additional production and instruments from film composer Brian Reitzell (Lost In Translation), cello by London’s Oliver Coates, additional production from Clams Casino and vocal contributions from ambient artist Julianna Barwick, rapper Cadence Weapon and singers Ebhoni and Rochelle Jordan.

If the Canadian artist’s 2017 debut album “Feel Infinite” was the soundtrack to a dream pregame – amping you up to lose yourself in the club – then “Dawn Chorus” resides in the post-rave reflective moment. A time of heightened sensuality and latent possibility.

Now 29, Greene has been making music ‘about the club’ for over a decade. His sound could be described as an emotional haze, in that its balance of sonic elements work to illuminate the overlapping feelings that lie between the familiar binaries. “Dawn Chorus” opens with “Serenity”, an all-back-to-mine breaks tune that Greene describes as ‘a weird, euphoric take on Chemical Brothers.’ Lead single “Night Service” is a neon-lit hip-house anthem helmed by Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon, who drapes a love letter to the club around Greene’s acid-dipped synths. Elsewhere, “Distance” blends ambient textures with sampled birdsong and the snaking lines of Oliver Coates’s cello. Mega. 


TRACK LISTING

1. Serenity
2. Drop Location
3. Do It Without You
4. Night Service
5. Sel
6. Let Go (feat. Machinedrum & Rochelle Jordan)
7. For Love
8. Sibling
9. Whenever
10. Understand
11. Distance
12. Stars

Jacques Greene

Feel Infinite

    Can you believe this is Jacques Greene's debut album? I certainly can't. The LuckyMe founder has been prolific for the last 7 years at least (cue moments of bleary eyed reflection) through work on his pioneering label alongside collaborations with Night Slugs, μ-zig and many more. Practically carrying the baton of neon-lit, futuristic bass music forwards since its inception, the Toronto native crafted a musical blueprint that's inspired a generation who were raised up and looked to hip-hop, RnB, house, techno and of course the countless variations of soundsystem culture that have emerged from the UK. Finally presenting a full bodies long player, the Toronto native respectfully pays tribute to all aspects of club culture, both now and by-gone. Anyone who's lost their shit to repetitive music at some point in their life should be able to identify with the sounds and rhythms on offer here; although not all are not entirely tailored towards club play. Tracks like opener "Fall" shimmer and undulate with all the beauty of a new day, with bursts of futuristic sheen and new industry chaos contained within disc 1's closing track, "Dundas Collapse". There's obviously plenty for the modern dancefloors too, "You Can't Deny" and "Real Time" as likely to soundtrack an epic night at the Warehouse Project as it will garner Saturday night radio play. Greene joins the ranks of other new schoolers, Zomby, Bashmore, Hud Mo and Rustie - able to connect the instruments and sounds of right now to the minds and bodies to the demographic absorbing them. No easy feat when you consider how disparate our modern, post-everything world has become...

    TRACK LISTING

    Fall
    Feel Infinite
    To Say
    True Ft How To Dress Well
    I Won’t Judge
    Dundas Collapse
    Real Time
    Cycles
    You Can’t Deny
    Afterglow
    You See All My Light

    Jacques Greene

    Afterglow / You Can't Deny

      LuckyMe star and bass-house monolith Jacques Green returns with "Afterglow", alongside fan favourite and summer hit single "You Can’t Deny".  It’s been two years since we last heard new music from the Canadian artist and producer who helped revolutionize the palette of new dance music with his colourful set of contemporary influences. "Afterglow" on first listen has the potential to be this year "Hyph / Mngo", or some equally large Floating Points numbers. Anthemic yet painfully contemporary, it's gonna sound equally catchy blazing out of the Funktion1's at your local dance party as it is blaring obnoxiously out of the mid-range tweeter on your Samsung Galaxy.  "You Can't Deny" matches its former, possibly surpassing it even with sheer serotonin-flooded luminescent joy. A speed up RnB vocal riding neon-purple synth stabs and dropping with an almighty snare roll. The main hook consisting of rock solid 808 subs, trap-style hats, and a consistent vocal stab. Like "Afterglow" there's huge chorus' and massive hooks but the whole thing is wrapped in a futureproof glow that cement it as a sure fire hit with the yoof.
      Born and raised in Montreal, now residing in Toronto via New York’s Lower East Side, Jacques Greene broke out of a generation of independent electronic labels like Uno, 3024, Night Slugs and LuckyMe as a genre-defining artist (via 2011’s ’Another Girl’, one of Pitchfork’s Songs Of The Decade) who laid the blueprint for countless young producers and DJs inspired by the intersection of contemporary music such as hip hop, RnB, house and techno. 


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