![]() Mirroring this is the fact that a lot of the club audiences are beginning to be a lot more receptive to experimental sounds. Everything is much more fragmented, so a lot of people are experimenting and making music which isn't trying to fit into any pre-determined category, leading to a lot more original music. Mumdance, you say UK dance music is undergoing a "healthy and extremely interesting transitional period." What recent developments have excited you most? Mumdance: I feel at the moment, certainly in the spheres that I'm operating in, there is no big overruling genre which everyone is adhering to. ![]() I see this mix as a scene report, or a "state of affairs," a document which encapsulates what is happening at the moment and the possibilities for the future. Both of us worked hard to finish music especially for this project, alongside a number of the other artists featured. Mumdance: I think the mix almost has the ethos of a "mixtape," as Rob says. We worked to finish up music with this mix specifically in mind-the result being that the mix is fully populated with fresh rhythms, barely even on dubplate! ![]() How did you guys go about recording the mix back-to-back? Pinch: We didn’t record it live-the mix was very much a planned affair. We spoke with Pinch and Mumdance via email to find out more about the mix: I see this mix as a part of the next step in that story." Pinch B2B Mumdance will be released digitally and on CD. It was there in dubstep for me for many years but then I got a bit bored with the beats. Pinch adds: "I like my music to have interesting percussion some bass, space-and arranged with a sense of grace. This mix is an ode to that time and our attempt at throwing some ideas out there, with the hope of sparking some imaginations & pushing things further forward." "In my opinion the dance music climate in the UK is enjoying a healthy and extremely interesting transitional period one which I would draw parallels to the 93/94 "proto" era when people were literally making up the rules as they went along. ![]() "This mix was the perfect chance to sit down with Pinch and bring together a sonic which we both feel we have been working towards for a while, albeit from very different angles," says Mumdance. It celebrates the latest mutations from UK dance music's ever-shifting frontline, and there's a healthy number of unreleased cuts, including Shed's remix of Pinch's "Obsession (The Possession)." Pinch and Mumdance have unveiled a new collaborative mix, due out on Tectonic Recordings next month.Īppropriately titled Pinch B2B Mumdance, the 19-track mix works its way through a number of the two producer's own cuts, made solo, in collaboration with each other, and, in Mumdance's case, in collaboration with Logos. ![]()
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