When Will You Wake Up? by Julien Mier - King Deluxe [DELUXE013]

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When Will You Wake Up?

Julien Mier

A 5 track balearic / downtempo ep (15m 22s) — released August 6th 2012 on King Deluxe

#electronic #downtempo

Here's some notes on what was going through my head when I made this music...

Watercolour Skyis a piece in which I've used my own voice and changed the overtones through formant filtering, to resemble a female singer, in part to achieve a musical neutral point of view. A voice is one of the most precious and normally less neutral instruments you can have, and that colours the music in a certain way. Sometimes it's just easier to erase the identity so you can pinpoint yourself in the music instead of the character of the instrument.

Je t'ecouteis one of the best examples of my composition methods, using collage techniques to reflect my fascination of dreams. These are reconstructed, in this case, with a rolling bowling ball, the clinging of a metal lantern, and the sound of a death march trumpet.

Rainbow Covered Homeis an experiment that pretty much went out of hand. The percussion in this track was inspired by the story of the diminutive David beating up the colossal Goliath, the idea being to create a psycho-acoustic, fluttering wave inside your head.

Glide, Sail, Floatis a slightly different approach... I used a number of vintage synthesizers and keyboards thanks to the Red Bull Studio in Amsterdam, and tried to reflect the feeling of being inside a warm womb, just minutes before you're carried away from this place. The vocals are from Myrthe van de Weetering, a very talented multi instrumentalist from Utrecht I met during my studies. She sings:

Dutch producer Julien Mier released his When Will You Wake Up? EP via Canadian label King Deluxe last week, and has offered one of its tracks for download. Despite the fact that the soft-hitting - XLR8R website

I doubt deluge is the right word to describe the way any record label operates and releases music, but in terms of digital labels, sometimes it can feel like there is a lot of material that gets thrust out onto the internet that is of questionable quality. Another way to say it would be: honestly, I doubt some of this music would ever get the investment a physical release requires. Yes, we’re in a massively declining market sector and there’s statistics, sales figures and inverted traffic spikes to prove it – but that shouldn’t really dictate the quality, or quantity, of what a label is releasing. Presenting something (someone or some project) properly is probably one of the most important things a label can do – similarly that’s why most people don’t christen their labels names like Dick Hole, Cum Quat or Jizz Quick Records; because people just won’t take you, or your product, or your artists seriously. - Sonic Router website

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