Today – Blawan announces Dismantled into Juice, a brand new EP out Wednesday 17 May 2023. The five-track record is the second release on XL recordings from the renowned electronic producer following the underground phenomenon Woke Up Right Handed. To mark the announcement, Blawan today releases the opening track ‘Toast‘, a playful preview into the spell-binding, otherworldly productions to come.
Dismantled into Juice, encapsulates the multifaceted sounds that Blawan aka Jamie Roberts has been fastidiously perfecting across the last decade. After hearing the powerful vocals of rising singer Monstera Black, Blawan set about making a record that moved him further away from the club and deeper into the studio to perfect the abstract sounds he’s always wanted to explore. The result is remarkable; across the 5 tracks Blawan effortlessly flickers between instrumentals and vocal-led songs that flex a deep technical ability and see him transcend the “techno” box he has so often been put in.
Bringing in distorted drum rhythms, piercing synths, unbelievable drums, and original vocal cuts, Dismantled Into Juice is Blawan’s most riveting and genre-bending music to date.
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Blawan
Dismantled into Juice EP
XL Recordings
Wednesday 17 May 2023
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Tracklist:
1. Toast
2. Panic
3. You Can Build Me (feat. Monstera Black)
4. Body Ramen
5. Dismantled into Juice (feat. Monstera Black)
Through both time in the studio and time on the road, Jamie Roberts has dedicated the last decade to developing his alias, Blawan – and in the process, he’s created a universe within techno that’s all his own. Roberts grew up in Barnsley, UK and from an early age was etching out his musical path as a drummer – a relic of the past which should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with his productions.
Indeed, his discography as Blawan illuminates a natural fluency for rhythm, whether straight, stridently syncopated, or swinging somewhere in between.
His other aliases, Kilner and Bored Young Adults, like his collaborations with Pariah as Karenn and with Surgeon as Trade, have provided additional bandwidth for experimentation. Having released across the
Roberts’ own label, TERNESC, was established in 2015 and has served as the home for his last five releases as Blawan. Having made the move to Berlin in 2015, his analogue-driven studio production and
formidable live sets have propelled Roberts into exciting new directions, even as he maintains expert command of more traditional dance floor environments from behind the decks. His latest offering, the full-length Wet Will Always Dry, dropped in June 2018. It’s a breakthrough moment in Roberts’ discipline of auditory alchemy, and a tour-de-force of ambitious, nuanced techno for fans following his ever-explorative career.
In 2021, Blawan debuted on XL Recordings with an EP titled, Woke Up Right Handed. Upon release, the
record caused ripples of excitement in the world of experimental club music, going on to become a bonafide phenomenon and appearing in ‘Best Of 2021’ lists in RA, Crack Magazine, The Quietus, and more. Resident Advisor said of it Every Blawan record in recent memory has been eye-opening, but this
one is blinding in its brilliance, packaging everything great about each era of Blawan into five blissfully
bizarre tracks.”
