Preview: ECHO PARK // Fibre Optic
Brian Gibbs aka Echo Park will have the first album release on Skream’s Disfigured Dubz labe. Here’s the single… vocoder bliss.
Out of an 8.8 earthquake, riots and severe illness comes one of the most joyful records of the year. Brian Gibbs aka Echo Park has had a colourful life to say the least, living and making music in L.A., Tokyo, Madrid, Mexico City and now Santiago, Chile where he lives with his young family. Previously a producer of dark hip hop and dub, a series of disasters made him confront mortality and decide it was time to make the music that is closest to his heart: luscious, sunshine-infused electro-funk full of laid back attitude and “real songs”.
Skream has always been a lover of disco, boogie and electro – as anyone who’s heard one of his specialist sets or his slick’n’sleazy remix of Chromeo will know. It took just one hearing of Brian’s first Echo Park tracks via a mutual friend to snap them up for Disfigured Dubz. In fact he has chosen Echo Park for the first full album on the label… but first comes this killer single, a shmoooove bit of vocoder funk that sets the tone for Echo Park’s twin obsessions with technology and romance. Bundled with it are a gutbusting ravemonster of a rework by 12th Planet & Flinch that somehow still keeps the soul of the track intact, and Jon Convex taking it way underground with a deeper-than-deep analogue techno version. There’s something for everyone here and this is just the beginning.
