Andy Brings

Distinguishing an Erasure album from one of Andy Bell’s club-oriented, synth pop solo albums is a job best left to hardcore fans, but while everyone else is cracking jokes about how they’re really one and the same, the faithful should know that Non-Stop offers a more casual encounter with their favorite singer, and one that takes place in disco heaven. Co-written and co-produced by dancefloor veteran Pascal Gabriel, the album takes none of the patience Erasure efforts sometime require, as a parade of songs heavy with hooks and packaged in proven progressive house flavors play out for their three-or-so minutes before another comes in to take its place…

On An Evening with John Patitucci & Andy James, two gifted performers join forces to conjure an intimate evening of captivating music. At a time when jazz aficionados around the world have been starved for musical experiences, the album recreates the sultry atmosphere of a candlelight nightclub as some of the most revered musicians in modern jazz perform classic standards.

Andy Stott is a producer who has never sounded quite like anyone else. Covering unease, uncertainty and the unknown with a deceptive facade of the familiar, the Manchester-based creator specialises in the panic-attack soundtrack, pieces which, even at their most serene, still bristle with a fractious enthusiasm that’s hard to pin down.
In short, Stott doesn’t sound like anyone else precisely because his aural vision sounds so singularly wrong. His work is off-kilter, erratic, and unpredictable in all of the most startling ways. Stott’s tracks are baptised in a river of unrestrained distortion and acoustic artifacts in a manner which feels so unsustainable but sound so conceptually distinct; glass cannons that threaten to fall apart at any moment, but never do…

Five Times Surprise brings together a volatile mix of longtime compatriots and newly forged relationships. The distinguished improvisers all boast exceptionally diverse resumes. More than finding common ground, they reveal a vast universe of possibilities fueled by creative conflagration and genre blurring. “We’re improvisers who can walk into a room and create something together,” says the project's original instigator Henry Kaiser, who then listed the salient qualities of his fellow players here: the ability to listen, kindness, generosity, and—rare in this electric realm—a sense of humor. All those factors were at work on this new recording.

DJ Andy Smith returns to BBE Music with a second stunning installment of his compilation series ‘Reach Up – Disco Wonderland’, released on triple vinyl, double CD and digital formats.