'Ear Candy Dandy' & 'Dandy In Dub' Double Album (HM025) [LEFTFIELD, LOUNGE, DUB, AMBIENT], by George Demure

'Ear Candy Dandy' & 'Dandy In Dub' Double Album (HM025) [LEFTFIELD, LOUNGE, DUB, AMBIENT]

by George Demure

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Bensham Beats Quite apt that I should only get sat down to listen at 00:30 with a mug of tea and a Moroccan Woodbine, as it's just tailor-made for late smoky nights or lazy weekends on the couch.
A sublime piece of work with a wonky beauty to it that I can't quite fathom....and I reckon that's just how it should be! Favorite track: Late Again.

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Duplicated* cassette in white with printed sticker & printed two-panel j-card in a clear case.

*Duplicated in ‘real-time’ onto high quality ferric oxide (Type I Normal Bias) tapes, using the latest TEAC/TASCAM cassette recorders.

All paper parts printed using sustainable materials.

Limited Edition: 50.

‘EAR CANDY DANDY’ - TRACKLIST

01. Hello, Mr George (3.18)
02. Circles (4.34)
03. A Night In (3.00)
04. Dub In Your Bubble (2.12)
05. Melodica Joe (3.35)
06. Meadows (1.50)
07. Late Again (featuring Stevie ‘Chicago’ Christie) (4.27)
08. Wishful Thinking (3.24)
09. Blah De Blah (2.18)
10. Here’s What (featuring David Rosenthal) (3.10)

‘DANDY IN DUB’ - TRACKLIST (BANDCAMP / CASSETTE ONLY)

01. After (3.39)
02. Circling Beats (3.12)
03. Mr Minilogue (2.51)
04. Dub In Your Bubble Instrumental (2.10)
05. Just A Minute (1.00)
06. Blah De Blah (Instrumental) (2.16)
07. Late Again Beats (4.08)
08. Blue Lou (3.41)

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Fabric: 100% Organic ring-spun combed cotton

Weight: 150gsm

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2 Colour (Orange & Black/Grey) AND *Double Sided* print on Vintage White cotton

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of It's True What They Say? (HM026EP) [DREAM POP], Pockets Of Light Double Album (HM024) [BALEARIC, ELECTRONIC, AMBIENT], 'Ear Candy Dandy' & 'Dandy In Dub' Double Album (HM025) [LEFTFIELD, LOUNGE, DUB, AMBIENT], Late Again (SINGLE) [LEFTFIELD, LOUNGE, ACID], Wishful Thinking (SINGLE) [LEFTFIELD, LOUNGE, UPTEMPO], 'Glagol' Album (HM023) [AMBIENT, DRONE, EXPERIMENTAL], 'Hosek' EP (HM022) [HOUSE, BEATDOWN, EXPERIMENTAL], Riot (HM020LP) [AMBIENT, BEATDOWN, EXPERIMENTAL], and 21 more. , and , .

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1.	Hello, Mr George 03:18	buy track
2.	Circles 04:34	buy track
3.	A Night In 03:00	buy track
4.	Dub In Your Bubble 02:11	buy track
5.	Melodica Joe 03:34	buy track
6.	Meadows 01:49	buy track
7.	Late Again 04:26	buy track
8.	Wishful Thinking 03:24	buy track
9.	Blah De Blah 02:17	buy track
10.	Here's What 03:10	buy track
11.	After 03:40	buy track
12.	Circling Beats 03:13	buy track
13.	Mr Minilogue 02:52	buy track
14.	Dub In Your Bubble (Instrumental) 02:12	buy track
15.	Just A Minute 01:00	buy track
16.	Blah De Blah (Instrumental) 02:18	buy track
17.	Late Again (Beats) 04:18	buy track
18.	Blue Lou 03:40	buy track

about

INTRO:

Currently celebrating ten years of releasing music on vinyl & cassette and following hype for recent releases from Moscow (via Tallinn)’s Galun (glagol album) and Osaka's Kiji Suedo (Hosek EP & Riot album), Edinburgh's Hobbes Music label continues to mine a leftfield seam with this brand new album from singer/songwriter George Demure (Tirk, Output) aka DJ/producer George T (Greco Roman, Optimo), better known as George Thomson to his mum. And it’s another absolute peach if you have a taste for post-club sounds of a more leftfield persuasion.

This is the follow-up to his 'The Record Store' EP which came out via George's own All Noise imprint in 2021. He has also released the Roll On, King's Cross single via Hobbes Music under his George T moniker last November (plus various bits for the Paradise Palms and Ramrock labels in the interim):

hobbesmusicon.bandcamp.com/album/roll-on-kings-cross-hm021-dub-house-electronic

STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSE'S MOUTH:

“It all began with the Record Store EP in 2021,” explains George. “Limit my options. No samples, one drum machine, two analog synths (mono and poly), computer simply to record. I was so happy with the results I began with what you hear today. Same drums, same machines (or lack thereof) maybe some real percussion and melodica but hey, I only answer to me.”

IN A NUTSHELL:

Imagine, if you will, Scott Walker jamming with Kruder & Dorfmeister in a very small studio…

WHAT?! THERE'S A BONUS ALBUM ON THE SAME TAPE AS WELL?!

Bonus Album Dandy In Dub features dubs, instrumentals and bonus tracks, with yet more regular flashes of pure brilliance. Be sure to check out opener 'After' and closer 'Blue Lou', which sound like George might well have sound-tracked some French 80s flick of the 'cinema du look' period (Betty Blue, Diva et al) in another life. Plus 'Mr Minilogue' with its clarinet-like synth....

I mean, does it really get any better than this?!!

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FEEDBACK:

'Love the album and the Late Again dub is mega' LEO MAS
'He's so talented!' JD TWITCH (Optimo)
‘Lovely stuff’ S/A/M (Music For Dreams/DK, Cafe Del Mar, Pikes, Playasol Radio and many more, Ibiza)
'Love the LP. Sounds really together, production is awesome. I love the aesthetic. Vocal tracks sit nicely with instrumentals. Vocals sound light-hearted' THE MAGHREBAN
'Sounds great' AUSTIN ATO
'Wow, this is off the scale.. easy one of the best albums I have heard coming out of Edinburgh in a long time, I had to check it twice just to get my head round just how good it is' JOSEPH MALIK

RADIO plays from
ANDY WILSON (‘Balearica’, Ibiza Sonica Radio)
DJ DRIBBLER (Pikes, Ibiza // Paradise Lost, Red Light Radio, Pure)
SILVER RAIN RADIO (Moscow, RU)
U:LOOKS (St Petersburg. RU)
PAT BENSBERG (The Eccentric Selection, Phonic FM, Exeter)
SNIDE RHYTHMS (EHFM)

REVIEWS:

"There's a playfulness to the tracks here which all feel markedly different from from one another as they pogo through a plethora of genres and moods" THE SKINNY

"On a bobbled and float-y, light sunbeam dappled vapor of deep house, garage, electro, kosmische, leftfield pop electronica, dub and new wave (both the German and UK’s), the Edinburgh DJ/producer and singer-songwriter George Thomson continues the good work he laid down on the last EP...

With the same self-imposed limitations that he set back then... And yet, as sparse as that sounds, Thomson manages to fully expand his subtle sonic, musical, rhythmic and effects universe even further...

The CV is impressive and varied.... It shouldn’t come as any surprise to find Thomson well versed and full of ideas... this is a very fresh projection of that, with both vocal tracks and instrumentals that bob about with the lightest of touches and skill. That’s not to say there isn’t depth, as no matter how soft they are, the bass does thump and the machinery and generators add something concrete and textural to the music.

Of one production, there’s still a wide variety of ideas and genres across the original album’s ten tracks and the bonus moiety’s further eight variants of sung, instrumental and ‘beat’ tracks. The opening, ‘Hello Mr. George’, offers an awakening rural scene, complete with bird song. Bouncing drum pads patter out a gentle bip-bop beat enveloped by light chords on a dappled electronic piano-like synth across a morning idyllic scene. By the time we reach the chimmy new wave-esque ‘Dub In Your Bubble’, and the opening crooned vocal of “Johanna”, we’re almost in the yearning schmooze territory of the crooner. Though as the song progresses, it becomes apparent that it’s more Robin Scott than Scott Walker; mixed I might add with a touch of the Sabres Of Paradise. Another vocal track, ‘Circles’, sounds more like a soulful leftfield downcast Matthew Dear.

An after hours downtime serenade, ‘Late Again’, that features Stevie ‘Chicago’ Christie whizzing Felix Da Housecat vibes past satellites, is a particular highlight – imagine Eno and Scott’s M persona making pop music together. By contrast, the therapy session, ‘Blah De Blah’, sounds like Polygon Windows lost in a haze of Bowie and Level 42! All the vocals have a real drift to them; almost languorous and untethered; a kind of free association soul-house-pop vibe that gives.

Elsewhere, the impeccable production mixes rotor-bladed Moroder with EDM; Kriedler with the melodica dub cloud operations of The Orb and FSOL; and the outdoor environments of epic45 with Roedelius and Thomas Dinger. Within that scope kinetic sounds are matched with the cosmic, vaporous and far out ‘jack-your-body’ moves. It’s a most lovely, swimmingly blend of motivations, feels and deep grooves that effortlessly comes together in a generous offering of electronic music: the very epitome of the Hobbes label’s remit in delivering leftfield unique visions of now techno, house and club sounds." MONOLITH COCKTAIL

monolithcocktail.com/2023/12/06/the-perusal-50-lea-bertucci-universal-harmonies-frequencies-june-mcdoom-kenneth-jimenez-george-demure/

BIO
Emerging from the epic Scottish house and techno scene of the 90s, George started his musical adventures as a dj then promoter, bringing to Scotland DJs from Chicago, New York, Toronto, Paris and London to play at the legendary Tribal Funktion parties in Edinburgh.

Aside from co-founding Edinburgh's Underground Solushn record shop, he also started producing his own blend of techno and house in the mid nineties. This led to a string of releases with seminal labels such as NRK, Stickman, 2020 Vision, Crosstown Rebels, Tirk and more recently Greco-Roman, Optimo and Output Recordings. After a move to London in 2000, the George T moniker began a long hiatus. Nothing was heard until Joe Goddard released an EP of rediscovered gems on Greco-Roman in 2017.

His various monikers from then and now include Plastic Avengers, George Demure and more recently as one half of Jeanga and George. He collaborates extensively, with some of his most recent projects featuring actor Tam Dean Burn, soul singer Joseph Malik and Paranoid London's Quinn Whalley. He continues to share his eclectic tastes on his monthly radio show All Noise on Edinburgh's EHFM Radio.

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released February 9, 2024

Written, composed and arranged by George Thomson.
Production by George Demure.
Late Again Wurlitzer by Stevie 'Chicago' Christie.
Here's What Trumpet by David 'The Doc' Rosenthal
Mastered by Chris Lyth at Tron Mastering.
Artwork by Bernie Reid.
Published by Sounds And Sons

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