You arrives in a flurry of piano keys, vocal samples and skipping rhythms, channeling the rave-like beach-combing sounds of Jamie xx, Caribou and DJ Koze. The first 45 seconds evoke the rapidly accelerating feel of a take-off, soon to be complimented by the weightlessness of flight. Singer/actress Sojourner Brown’s vocals flit in between synths and beats, with the whole thing feeling less like a singular structure than a collection of objects floating in space at the same time.
Channeling the sounds Tal grew up listening to whilst visiting family in London, on You he gives us an all too brief experience of what it feels like to just exist within the music… Literally, inside it. There is a flow-state like purity to what the 21-year-old Brooklyn producer has achieved here. Like a magpie, he takes what he needs from various forms of dance music — UK Garage, dubstep, house, dream pop — and puts us inside the resulting collage, free to wonder at all those sounds.
The inspiration for Simon’s music has come from the same loneliness and boredom many of us have experienced through quarantine. Rather than just sit with it, Tal spent his time revisiting disposable photos he had taken over the past five years and channeled that inspiration into something nostalgic but hopeful. Some of those disposable images have now been given new life as the photography artwork for his debut EP,Reworks. The release sees the producer take some of his favourite b-side releases, remixing and reworking them to creating something new, looking back to help us contextualise the future, in much the same way as those photos.
Check out You below, and listen to the full Reworks EP on Soundcloud here.