A Levon Vincent tune will always hit different. While a lot of knowledge around the classic tropes of dance music goes into the producer's music, they also continue to push the envelope and are marked by experiments in rhythm and especially sound-it's as if you hear him thinking aloud against the grain. His latest album Silent Cities came as a surprise nonetheless, moving at lower BPMs and picking up on elements from genres other than techno and house. Released through its own Novel Sound imprint, it is however not at all a lockdown album as the title seems to suggest at first. "The name is a commentary on the cultural and societal shift we have undergone in recent years," explains Vincent. "I am not referring to the pandemic, but Corona sure didn't help the situation." It's only fitting then that Silent Cities sees the Berlin-based New Yorker at his most experimental. His contribution to our Groove podcast, one of his rare mixes, draws primarily on his own catalogue and features previously unreleased material. It is accompanied by an in-depth (and we mean in-depth) interview about different tuning systems, the connection between post-minimalism and New York City hip-hop and much, much more.
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