The idea came to me one Sunday evening, walking between my studio and kitchen.
I’d been writing at 90bpm for a couple of months and things were starting to click. I knew that John (Disgraceland ) had some tracks around that tempo; we’d both kind of started to explore that angle after hearing that ‘Tarraxo na Parede’ track, so it set me thinking…
I knew that my angle on the tempo was producing different results to John’s despite the fact that we have similar principals and tastes when it comes to mid-tempo house and the like. With this in mind, I thought of the other producers I’d been in contact with over the internet during the past few years, many of whom I’d met through the early days of moombahton. What would they make of this tempo?
The idea twisted and turned in my head for a few days as I wrestled with the concept. A fixed tempo is a guideline but no real challenge, I wanted to approach my peers with something interesting, an opportunity for me to learn more about them and to explore their concept of a theme.
The word ‘deep’ is oft used in electronic music, usually as a prefix for a sub-genre. There are umpteen groups on soundcloud’s servers with the word deep in them, yet the more I have explored, the more I have come to learn that the idea of a track being ‘deep’ can vary wildly, so my kind of deep does not translate into someone else’s. The multifariousness of this musical theme felt like the perfect hook for my challenge. The idea was complete.
I scrawled an email whilst sat in bed on the Wednesday night, “It is an experiment,” I explained. “A social/musical investigation to see what would result if you were limited by tempo and focused by a theme…”
The Result: 90 Beats Deep
ЯomoR
credits
released November 30, 2014
ЯomoR, Disgraceland, Benny Woo, Beach Club & Relic, Marshall Applewhite, Mister Luke O’Hearn, Jamrock, Valent.
These tracks may have been written in a cabin in Lake Tahoe (for real!) but they sound like they could score a rave at the end of the world. Bandcamp New & Notable Oct 22, 2022