Andy Stott’s first material of 2010 finds the producer in a sultry mood, delivering two house variants produced with his typically deep and luxurious style. “Tell Me Anything” centers around shuffling snares, a rugged bassline and sparkling keys anchoring the track somewhere between wide open and celestial expanses and the compressed warehouse environments of darkest North Manchester. When the keys drop half way through the track, you’ll be forgiven for thinking you are in underwater heaven; submerged, euphoric bliss. “Love Nothing” on the flipside is the slower of the two tracks, but somehow one of the most defining of Stott’s career, unraveling to expose an unfathomably deep arrangement of deep bass rumbles, decomposed vocals and mangled percussion. It sounds like Newworldaquarium, Mount Kimbie and DJ QU shooting the breeze, evoking the humid spirit and glamour of a hot summer in the city whilst retaining a northern grit now synonymous with the Modern Love crew. Beautiful living under difficult circumstances!

a1 - Tell Me Anything

b1 – Love Nothing
LOVE#062
Release Date: 07.06.2010

Andy Stott is one of those producers who has always captivate me. His music is totally different from what we normally listen, transmitting a very hypnotic vibe, surfing through waves between techno, house, dub, electro and IDM. His live acts must be quite amazing! Alongside with Claro Intelecto (a longtime friend, mentor and collaborator), they have been marking a generation on Modern Love with releases like “Warehouse sessions” or “Unknown Exceptions”. This release is a limited hand-stamped one-sided 12″ with only 500 copies for the world. “Night Jewel” is a classic dancefloor builder, amassing deadly ingredients on shuffling keys, a heaving square bassline and the kind of reverberating chords reminiscent of Move D at his most mesmerising. It’s surely one of the best records from Stott until this days, intuitive, imaginative, warm and hypnotic! “Night Jewel” is a required listening for any of you interested in the bass progressions and deviations where techno, house, dub, garate collide to shift things to next level..

a1 – Night Jewel

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LOVE#058
Release Date: 02.11.2009

To celebrate the release nr.50 of our favourite deep morning-sound label, Modern Love compiled the best productions (since 2004 till 2008) of one of their main producers – Andy Stott. This amazing LP will be released in the beginning of next month and it’s a major collection that everyone should have with tracks that marked us throughout this couple of years!

Press Release
Andy Stott has developed a unique sound since his debut for the Modern Love label back in 2005. His first demos were heavily influenced by the square-bassline techno variations of Claro Intelecto, a longtime friend, mentor and eventually labelmate and collaborator. His first release, ‘Replace’ featured a mixture of disciplines that took in elements of Detroit Techno and Chicago House which fast captured peoples imagination with intuitive, warm melodies and fathomless bass weight. From that point on Stott continued to shift and adapt his sound to take in ever disparate influences, from the driving techno of Dave Clarke’s ‘Red’ series through to Basic Channel, Dubstep, Garage and the minimalism of classic Sahko. His restless shift rom traditional Techno blueprints through to the bottom-heavy signatures of dubstep and the steppers arrangements of garage have also placed him at the forefront of the dubstepXtechno hybrid sounds that have started to dominate the electronic music scene in 2008 alongside the likes of Martyn, Peverelist and T++. This compilation brings together selected tracks dating back to Andy Stott’s debut back in 2005 and reaching all the way to his most recent material in 2008 – with none of them ever available on cd until now. Tracks feature here from the ‘Replace’, ‘Ceramics’, ‘Handle With Care’, ‘Hostile’, “Bad Landing’, “Fear Of Heights’, ‘Massacre’ and ‘Nervous’ EP’s and stream through his fascination with deep, almost uncontainable basslines and ever inventive percussive shifts. The man really is a bit of a hero round these parts, and we consider ‘Unknown Exception’ required listening for any of you interested in the bass progressions and deviations where Techno, House, Dub and Garage collide to shift things to the next level.

Tracklist:
1 Fear Of Heights (6:20)
2 Bad Landing (6:10)
3 Handle With Care (4:50)
4 Long Drive (5:27)
5 Credit (7:07)
6 Massacre (6:57)
7 See In Me (6:07)
8 Made Your Point (6:04)
9 She’s Gone Wrong (5:31)
10 Fine Metallic Dollar (6:53)
11 Hostile (6:39)
12 Replace (4:43)

Rls Date: 01.09.2008
Love#050