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As Claremont 56<\/strong> continues to celebrate its first decade, founder Paul Murphy remains on the look out for talented producers to add to the label\u2019s slowly expanding family of artists. The imprint\u2019s latest debutant, Blair French<\/strong>, is hardly a newcomer to music production, though, having put out his first release \u2013 under the Dial81 alias \u2013 this time 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

French<\/strong> is something of a musical chameleon. Over the years, he\u2019s been a member of numerous musical collectives \u2013 most notably Cosmic Handshakes and Formless Figures \u2013 established his own well-regarded DIY record label (Fat Finger Cosmic) and delivered material on imprints including Delsin, M1 Sessions and, most recently, Rocksteady Disco (the deep and jazzy Afro-house brilliance, Standing Still Is An Illusion ).<\/p>\n

The Detroit based musician, producer and graphic designer is also notoriously difficult to pin down. Trawl through his releases and you\u2019ll come across blissful ambience, experimental hip-hop, skewed techno, hazy deep house, beach-friendly Balearica, neo-classical, an award-winning film score (documentary Detropia ) and even a dash of bassbin-bothering grime.<\/p>\n

On his first Claremont 56<\/strong> 10″, Blair French<\/strong> is in full-on, head-in-the-clouds, feet-on-the-sand mode. The A-side boasts the soft-spun delight that is \u201cSandbar Caviar\u201d<\/strong>, a gently undulating exercise in aural bliss built around sparse drum machine hits, pitched-down Balearic disco aesthetics \u2013 think bubbly bass and humid flashes of Afro-influenced guitars \u2013 and the kind of fluttering synthesizer melodies that would once have been described as \u201cnew age\u201d in tone.<\/p>\n

The sticky, tropical-tinged humidity continues on the flip, where \u201cInland Island\u201d showcases French<\/strong>\u2019s love of dub disco bass, atmospheric field recordings, bongo-laden South American rhythms and the kind of hazy, tactile vocals that seemingly drift between the speakers on a cloud of pungent marijuana smoke. It\u2019s an intoxicating and loved-up experience; you can dance if you want to, but it sounds just as good if you\u2019re lying flat on your back.<\/p>\n

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On his first Claremont 56<\/strong> 10″, Blair French<\/strong> is in full-on, head-in-the-clouds, feet-on-the-sand mode. The A-side boasts the soft-spun delight that is \u201cSandbar Caviar\u201d<\/strong>, a gently undulating exercise in aural bliss built around sparse drum machine hits, pitched-down Balearic disco aesthetics \u2013 think bubbly bass and humid flashes of Afro-influenced guitars \u2013 and the kind of fluttering synthesizer melodies that would once have been described as \u201cnew age\u201d in tone.<\/p>\n

The sticky, tropical-tinged humidity continues on the flip, where \u201cInland Island\u201d showcases French<\/strong>\u2019s love of dub disco bass, atmospheric field recordings, bongo-laden South American rhythms and the kind of hazy, tactile vocals that seemingly drift between the speakers on a cloud of pungent marijuana smoke. It\u2019s an intoxicating and loved-up experience; you can dance if you want to, but it sounds just as good if you\u2019re lying flat on your back.<\/p>\n

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