Songs for Endless Cities Volume 1

New !K7-affiliated label Cool in the Pool opens its account with a state of the art compilation from twenty-four year old Londoner Brackles. In the last six months, the Blunted Robots co-owner has been grappling with the "future garage" tag that's been pushed his way, and he's not too keen. "Too limiting" he says. He can live with the "post dubstep" moniker, but his first commercially available mix album gives us a better snapshot of where this buzzing, vibrant scene is going than any scene name could hope to do. "Hearing UK funky was really refreshing after listening to dubstep for a few years. I still love dubstep but funky contains a lot of elements that I'd been missing since UK garage died. It opened my eyes to all kinds of house music and I now try and fit a lot of different bits from house, funky and dubstep into my sets."

Songs for Endless Cities aims to capture a slice of Brackles after hours and out of hours, with the afterglow still burning, maybe the rhythms still bumping, but with the freedom to roam around a bit, enjoying and exploring sound without always having to turn back to the dancefloor. The mix also contains a brand new and exclusive Brackles track, "Blo," which represents something of a different sound for the producer. It's a mix for the mind and the soul as much as the body, and it comes from a legion of musical influences, not all of them conscious ones. It was only when Mike "Mu" Paradinas commented on the Detroit influence he heard in Brackles' sound that the young Londoner went off to explore and enjoy the Motor City mothership, and now it's there, along with the garage, the dubstep, the house, the funky and the rest of it, all channeling into Brackles' contribution to the continuum, all helping shape his Songs for Endless Cities.