02/10/2020
Mine and Fields’ EP out now on Kaneda Records !
https://kanedarecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-house-blend-ep
The House Blend project started as a low-key evening of DJing at Arch Sixteen Café: a place that I have always enjoyed playing and championing over the years, which sadly seems to not be opening its doors again in the foreseeable future (rip).
The House Blend evenings were directly inspired by the Ubuntu Records evenings I had worked on in the past with Nathan Williams which were in the same space, and had the same formula of extended back to back sessions, from early evening til night, with a fairly liberal definition of ‘house’ music.
The House Blend name came from cafes and coffee manufacturers who advertise their own specific ‘house blends’ of coffee beans. We thought that this illustrated our idea of blending house music in the cafe venue, while also giving a nod to our own specific blend of house music we were playing; which includes house (obviously), deep techno, disco, electro, breakbeats, ukg, and ambient, downtempo, jazz, hip hop, 80’s new wave, and various strains of ‘world music’ (for lack of a better term), which were for the ‘warm up’ sections of the night. Once Jonah had drawn our ‘Coffee Bean on Decks’ mascot the concept was sealed.
The nights went well and we had a lot of fun, but for a few reasons we couldn’t keep it up, and the project lay dormant.
This EP not only gives the chance for both of us to spill our beans as producers, but it acts as a send off for Fields, who has recently relocated to the Netherlands, and for House Blend itself, which lies dormant again for the time being.
My half has notes of deep house, while Fields’ is more to a breakbeat palate.
(Check here for a wee feature with Narc where we discuss a few of our inspirations
http://narcmagazine.com/six-of-the-best-cass-lamb-fields/ )
Thanks to Callum Hays/ Lurch for the mastering, sounds phat as always.
And thanks to Ben for the photography.
Enjoy, and keep percolating xx
