Music To Die For Recordings has reimagined the compilation album idea in a pioneering transfer to showcase the label’s future stars’ greatest. Breaking from conference to champion forward-thinking music, the British imprint’s new annual ‘Artists To Die For’ compilation is available in three distinct components – DJ-friendly membership variations, tighter edits for fast-paced consumption and revolutionary remixes. But the distinctive twist is that this; finishing the trifecta every artist has reinterpreted a label mate’s monitor, stimulating inventive development inside the Music To Die For household.
Cultivating a Music To Die For artist neighborhood the place producers can thrive, discover the arrogance to experiment and genuinely flourish is central to label boss Johnny Hudson’s imaginative and prescient. “This neighborhood strategy offers a shared help community for our like-minded artists, promotes collaboration and the cross-pollination of sounds, and encourages the free circulate of recent inventive concepts,” stated Johnny. “It strengthens the connection, development and creative evolution inside the label household.”
That imaginative and prescient involves life throughout the brand new compilation, which kicked off with ‘Music To Die For Presents: Artists To Die For v1’ in September. Featuring a dozen standout originals that traversed from lush, dreamy electronica and natural home, by means of melodic techno and tech-house to dancefloor-destroying acid, it landed as an announcement of intent, underscoring the eclectic, genre-defying angle of the label.
Aimed at streaming and radio play, the ‘Edits’ model adopted in late ’23 and now, finishing the hat-trick, comes the ultimate definitive model spanning three discs and titled ‘Expanded & Remixed’.
A showcase of future-facing sounds and concepts, these new interpretations – the debut official remix outing for a number of of the artists – shift the album into prime gear. For instance, bringing the identical vitality that’s made him a favorite throughout warehouse raves in London and basements in Berlin, GIVE LOVE turns in a deep, dreamy and acid-laced soundscape model of Fauxplay’s ‘Ascension’; Eyal F. – the LA-based artist previously generally known as Descent – retains the identical loved-up temper going, layering pensive and twinkling keys into his widescreen trance-inducing take of Stuart King’s ‘Aloe Vera’; and London duo Speakman’s re-rub of ‘Give You Love’ by GIVING LOVE is a raucous exercise of fizzing synths and cosmic breakbeats.
Among the 12 featured artists, together with Indie Elephant, Ryan Martyn, Hudson and Gus F, two proficient 19-year-olds nurtured and developed by the label additionally make their mark. magic.made.by.r goes unconventional along with her twisted dancefloor rework of Mallinder’s ‘Heavy Rotation’, whereas the.CHAIN provides his heart-wrenching vocals to magic.made.by.r’s superbly melancholic ‘Eternity’.
“The degree of creativeness, originality and inventive pondering that every of the artists shows throughout the album is excellent,” stated Hudson. “They’re not afraid to tear up the rulebook and the result’s forward-thinking music that’ll affect listening experiences and dancefloors worldwide. This units the stage completely for what’s to come back from these sensible skills on the label quickly.”
With 5 Beatport Top 5 releases and eight Hype Chart No.1s in its younger historical past up to now, plus quite a few EPs and artist albums within the pipeline for 2024, Music To Die For is a label to observe.
You can purchase/stream ‘Music To Die For Presents: Artists To Die For Expanded & Remixed’ here. Connect with the label on Facebook, Instagram, SoundCloud, YouTube and Bandcamp.
Artists To Die For: Expanded & Remixed Tracklisting
Disc 1
1. Indie Elephant ‘Other Side (Edit)’
2. Mallinder ‘Heavy Rotation (Club Edit)’
3. Hudson x Fauxplay ‘Smoke Rings (Edit)’
4. Speakman x French For Rabbits ‘High (Radio Mix)’
5. GIVE LOVE ‘Give U Love (Original Edit)’
6. Fauxplay ‘Ascension (Edit)’
7. magic.made.by.r ‘Eternity (Radio Edit)’
8. Eyal F ‘The Boat (Edit)’
9. Stuart King ‘Aloe Vera (Radio Mix)’
10. The.Chain ‘He’s Peaking Sideways (Edit)’
11. Gus F ‘So Good (Radio Edit)’
12. Ryan Martyn ‘Awakening Skies (Radio Edit)’
Disc 2
1. Fauxplay ‘Ascension (GIVE LOVE Acid Dreamscape)’
2. Stuart King ‘Aloe Vera (Eyal F. Remix)’
3. GIVE LOVE ‘Give U Love (Speakman Remix)’
4. Mallinder ‘Heavy Rotation (magic.made.by.r Remix)’
5. Speakman x French For Rabbits ‘High (Hudson Remix)’
6. magic.made.by.r ‘Eternity (the.CHAIN Vocalic Remix)’
7. Ryan Martyn ‘Awakening Skies (Indie Elephant Remix)’
8. Eyal F ‘The Boat (Fauxplay Remix)’
9. Hudson x Fauxplay ‘Smoke Rings (Stuart King Remix)’
10. the.CHAIN_He’s Peaking Sideways (Gus F Remix)’
11. Gus F ‘So Good (Mallinder Remix)’
12. Indie Elephant ‘Other Side (Ryan Martyn New Spirit Remix)’
Disc 3
1. Speakman x French For Rabbits ‘High’
2. magic.made.by.r ‘Eternity’
3. Stuart King ‘Aloe Vera’
4. Indie Elephant ‘Other Side (Club Edit)’
5. Mallinder ‘Heavy Rotation (Terrace Mix)’
6. Fauxplay ‘Ascension’
7. Ryan Martyn ‘Awakening Skies’
8. Eyal F ‘The Boat’
9. Hudson x Fauxplay ‘Smoke Rings (Club Mix)’
10. GIVE LOVE ‘Give U Love (Acid Rework)’
11. The.Chain ‘He’s Peaking Sideways’
12. Gus F ‘So Good’
