île Flottante, by Mr Beatnick

île Flottante

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1.	île Flottante 04:37	buy track
2.	Central Park 05:34	buy track
3.	Crystal Snowflakes 05:11	buy track
4.	Katamaran 05:22	buy track
5.	Low Tide 05:21	buy track
6.	Cedar Sunset 05:00	buy track
7.	Ocean Spray 05:15	buy track
8.	Dance Of The Dolphins 05:27	buy track

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Île Flottante is Mr. Beatnick´s 5th album, following 2023’s Joy In Variation (including the notorious cover of Love on a Real Train) and his well-received off-beat collaboration with London-based avant-garde agitator Richard Greenan – Coasty – this is his first contribution to the International Feel trademark. Probably best known for some big deep house revivalist tunes circa 2013 on the now dormant Don’t Be Afraid record label, Beatnick now converts that aural quality and dimensionality into the Balearic system.

Île Flottante takes its name from the tastiest French pudding of Mr. Beatnick’s childhood holidays. The name, also a jeux de mots - floating island - hinting at the album’s inspirations and sense of identity, as a danceable soundtrack to a fictional island. Explored with high intensity and over a yearlong process, the sounds of the well-worn, but never failing Balearic universes were a mind expanding influence. Think of genre staples like Software, Manuel Goettsching, Mark Barrott, Len Leise, Don Carlos, Gaussian Curve, Joan Bibiloni or Yasuaki Shimuzu.

„I spent a year listening to a lot of synthesized island music, and marveling at the many twinkling wonders of the Balearic musical universe. Struck by a sense of belonging that had often eluded me on my musical journey thus far, as the weirdo at the back of the club who had orbited many scenes for 20 years, but never felt like I fitted in, I found music that made me feel like I had come home. The songs that came out of this process are presented in the order that they were written - an open book of ocean hymns, honest and spoken from the heart.“

Île Flottante tries its very hardest to avoid being any one thing in particular. At one point, it is a gentle beach walk accompanied by polyrhythmic drum plod and flourishes of Guzheng. At another, the infamous James Yancey septuplet swing is repurposed against a marimba melody that wouldn’t be out of place in one of Link’s forest adventures. Elsewhere, there are the bellows of distant whales, touches of Italian dream house and a splash of vintage madchester, all working to create a space that feels both familiar and loaded with well worn tropes, but with its own quirky sense of personality, facets which are often attributed to Mr. Beatnick’s holistic b-boy approach. This is his understanding of a Balearic (b-boy) stance. Just with a float instead of a freeze.

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released September 13, 2024

Dedicated to anyone who ever stared out the window at a rainy grey sky and dreamed of an island paradise. This is for you.
Shouts, thanks and love to;
Liz & Noah, Gerd & Oliver, Death Is Not The End, Lukid, Kelpe, Scoinsy, Adam Oko, Yedsy, Lil Benny, Richard Greenan, Galina, Bene, Pete Cold Blow, Quarion, Session Victim and the OG Retreat crew, Braiden, Matt Odyssey, Charlie Bones & OG, Dj Persuasion, LDLDN, Ahu, Cursed Objects family, The Whole Truth, Cedric, Cyril and the Beauty And The Beat family, Breakplus, Matt Hessleworth, Woody & the Birmingham Distant Spacedockers, all the Happy Cycling family, all the NTS Radio team and chatroom massive, all friends and crew worldwide.

Written and produced by Nick Wilson
Published by Copyright Control
Mastered by Lopazz at Mixmastering.de
Vinyl Cut at Schallplatten Schneid Technik
℗ +© 2024 International Feel
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Fresh Fields

Feb 2025
île Flottante

Sep 2024
Hawk Island

Nov 2023
Joy In Variation

Apr 2023
Honeycomb Remixes

Dec 2020
Honeycomb

Jun 2020
The Witching Hour

Jan 2017
Savannah

Jan 2013
Sun Goddess

Jan 2012
Synthetes

Jan 2011

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