Swedish duo Genius Of Time amalgamate all their influences for their second volume of their ‘Vocal Series’ out on Aniara soon.
Alex and Nils aka Genius Of Time for over fourteen years have been carving their own soundscape. Known for their fluid, hardware-driven music that intricately weaves between musical genres, the ‘Vocal Series’ is an opportunity for GOT to show some love for the classic vocal-driven dance music.
When we began working on the Vocal Series, it was all about diving into our love for vocal-centric house music! One aspect that’s always fascinated us is how a strong vocal can carry a track alongside quite bare-bone beats. So with this project we wanted to put the vocal front and center and build dance tracks around the vocal hook. It’s been a bit of exploration for us to see where it’s possible to take the GoT project and also experimenting with vocals, using them as samples or in terms of using them as an acapella and almost remixing ourselves. Also, somewhat going back to the roots of good dance tracks that has been very inspiring to us, in its raw form of a good hook and a good groove. – Alex & Nils
‘Closer’ is an ethereal, hypnotic groove that kinetically charges 4/4 beats with emotive synth, bulbous bass tones and delicate organ riffs. The female vocal is sultry, underpinned by the sorrowful washes of string chords. Emotional dance music. ‘Fumana Chord’ offers up a strait-laced floor weapon that pounds with strong kicks, low-slung bass lines and 90’s rave like Vox snippets. The reprise of ‘Closer’ nearly steals the show for us though. The cinematic beauty of this haunting, cosmically-soaring piece of music is the stuff Ibiza sunsets are made of.
Set for a September 6th release date, pre order the release here. Supported by the likes of Sasha, Laurent Garnier and Mano Le Tough.
