Hey, what do you know? Life found a way! Rhythm-centric mad scientist Beatrice Dillon has just announced her debut solo album for PAN. And, much like those engineered animals on Jurassic Park, it’s a friggin’ MONSTER.
Recorded over 2017-2019 in London, Berlin, and New York, Workarounds is part UK club skronk, part Afro-Caribbean experimentalism, and ALL GROOVE — mixing “meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples,” all at a “fixed 150bpm tempo.”
It also features the likes of Kuljit Bhamra, Laurel Halo, Batu, Untold, Kadialy Kouyate, Jonny Lam, Verity Susman, Kenichi Iwasa, Lucy Railton, Petter Eldh, James Rand, and Morgan Buckley — AND was mixed by James Rand and mastered by Rashad Becker. Talk about an ambitious cut-and-paste Frankenstein!
But before you do start doing any back-of-the-envelope Chaos Theory calculations, check out “Workaround Two” down below and head here and/or here to pre-order the full album ahead of its February 7 release.
Workaround tracklisting:
01. Workaround One
02. Workaround Two
03. Workaround Three
04. Workaround Four
05. Workaround Five
06. Clouds Strum
07. Workaround Six
08. Workaround Seven
09. Workaround Eight
10. Workaround Nine
11. Square Fifths
12. Workaround Bass
13. Pause
14. Workaround Ten
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