Dreams In Sepia, by Sam McQueen

Dreams In Sepia

by Sam McQueen

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PannionSeer Smooth, interstellar and hypnotic techno from a relative newcomer. This album received a lot of acclaim over at Resident Advisor, and while I have to say that their overall judgment regarding electronic music is not what it used to be, they got this one right. Also how about that album art? It's absolutely gorgeous, and aptly mimics the music. Favorite track: Wicker Park Sunrise.

Mimetaur So futuristic, so melodic, and makes me so nostalgic for Chicago. Favorite track: Wicker Park Sunrise.

Azolla23 I'm not even halfway through and it's already my album of the year. Techno of this calibre transcends. Essential!

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1.	Dreams In Sepia 03:02	buy track
2.	Wicker Park Sunrise 05:40	buy track
3.	Soulmate 06:39	buy track
4.	8000 km To Amsterdam (Narita Mix) 03:41	buy track
5.	A Beautiful Soul 06:01
6.	Fathoms 05:35	buy track
7.	Black Petals (Album Version) 07:27	buy track
8.	Promitory Beach (Alternate Version) 07:09	buy track
9.	Monologues (Interlude) 02:38	buy track
10.	Then And Now 06:11
11.	Awaken From A Dream 05:12	buy track

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In these dark times of Covid we still have our music.  We have the sounds to soothe us, distract and take our minds away from the chaos and uncertainty.
We can't dance like we used to but we can hear and feel. Our release must be found in another way, we must look within. We find solace and grant ourselves space and time in the music.

Sam McQueen (Indio co-producer with John Beltran, Indigo Aera, Delsin Records, Furthur Electronix) presents his debut album Dreams In Sepia for Mojuba sub label a.r.t.less and hits us with a real time soundscape of the moment, an epic-like document of these times. The rhythms are subtle, sometimes broken, the time structures often complex, this is not primarily dance floor orientated music. These sounds are way more cerebral, for the heads. They reflect perfectly the complexities of life we are experiencing in 2020.

The edges are rounded with occasional strolling bass lines and comfy chords. Slabs of keys and spaced out female vocals like a psychedelic journey that scares you at first yet comforts you soon after. Sam McQueen’s mediatory sounds give an overwhelming sense of the moment. The music makes you take time out and listen. Its purposeful manner suggests there are more hours in the day, like time slowing down a pause, like the sun slithering slowly behind the horizon. These are sunset sounds for dark back-rooms.

Daytime or night, it works. This is the soundtrack for the other room, the deeper sounds not designed to make you dance. This music doesn’t get in your face, it creeps up and smacks you on the ass. There are elements of early nineties UK Techno, a warmth and delicateness that pervades a distinct lack of four four dance floor in the beat structures, a softer tone throughout than the harder Detroit techno sounds of the same era but still nods and acknowledgements to the D in the layout and way the sounds present themselves. Think John Beltran, Symbols and Instruments, Black Dog or Kirk DeGiorgio, mid 90s Berlin sounds from Basic Channel / Rhythm & Sound, but in lockdown. Music for today's modern lacking landscape. The sounds often familiar, analogue, the drums, hi hats and snares, shimmer,  jazz style. They accentuate and push the rest of the elements around them.
 In a bygone era this would be crudely classed as Chill Out music. In 2020 Covid era its about how it makes you feel as you relax and really listen to it. It is about emotion and empathy, a oneness, a new unknown and a deeper train of thought for the listener. Much like 2020, Sam McQueen lays the pieces round the edge of the jigsaw and lets you fill in the rest.

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released November 13, 2020

Written & produced by Sam McQueen
Illustration by Kilian Eng
Mastered by Tob Jona

cat#: A.R.T.LESS LP 2

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