Artists: Ian Blevins & Al Gobi
Title: 909 Red Balloons EP
Label: Sneaky Music
Release date: 25/09/2015
Tracklist:
1. Ian Blevins – 909 Red Balloons
2. Ian Blevins – 909 Balloons [Ashworth remix]
3. Al Gobi – Libanese
4. Al Gobi – Libanese [Bird Of Paradise remix]
5. Al Gobi – I Need
We’re excited to announce a string of hot new releases, the first of which comes from forward-thinking producer and long term We Love resident, Ian Blevins: 909 Red Balloons. The British producer has been conjuring up a melancholic style that draws upon classic disco, soul, and house as much as much driving acid and techno for the best part of a decade. 909 Red Balloons is a beguiling addition to his catalogue, with co-productions and remixes from Ashworth and Birds of Paradise bolstering the strength of the producer’s own solo cuts.
Blevins’ sensuous, yet bruising sound is nowhere more in evidence than on 909 Red Balloons’ title track, where rippling kicks, toms and acid bass underpin languorous house piano chords and urgent pants of vocal sampling. Likewise, Blevins’ collaborative productions with fellow Brit, Phil Moody, under the Al Gobi alias generate an unusual momentum by pitting mid-tempo percussion muscle and breezy textural work against one another. On ‘Libanese’, porous synths render deep acid squelches strangely weightless, and “I Need” wrenches a similar cloudy elegance from clipped vocal samples.
The strength of the EP’s two remixes is a testament to the quality of Blevins’ original material. A take on “909 Balloons” by the prolific Ashworth is a Four Tet-esque twinkling, propulsive club tool, and Bird of Paradise’s ‘Libanese’ remix emphasises the alien extravagance of the original with unnerving washes of ambient noise, and far-out drum machine licks.
“He has been a regular in Space’s We Love parties in Ibiza for near 10 years now and always kills it with such broad and tasteful tune selection” – Feel My Bicep
“Ian is fast becoming one of Ibiza’s defining features” – Wasted Heroes
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