Double Divide, by Second Storey

Double Divide

by Second Storey

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1.	North Facing 03:33	info	buy track
2.	Reserved 05:51	info	buy track
3.	Combustion Hallmark 06:07	info	buy track
4.	Shaman Champagne 08:48	info	buy track
5.	One Sound 05:55	info	buy track
6.	Devotion Notion 05:57	info	buy track
7.	Protozoan Milkshake 02:23	info	buy track
8.	Trope 03:53	info	buy track
9.	The Overview Effect (Parts 1 & 2) 09:31	info	buy track
10.	Chordelia 05:30	info	buy track

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Formerly known as Al Tourettes, London-based producer Alec Storey unveiled his new project as Second Storey with 2013’s ‘Margosa Heights’ EP. ‘Double Divide’, his debut LP, is a massive statement of an album and inhabits a space full of contradictions, paradoxes and idiosyncrasies. Storey produces music that runs the gamut from multi-part suites of hefty sound design to club-shaking yet brainy dance epics for labels like Apple Pips, Aus and many more. This new project is at the crossroads; vastly complex, intricately arranged and inspired by love and emotion. Written over the course of a self reflective year, ‘Double Divide’ is a mix of adventurous club tunes that show off Storey’s bass roots as well as his psychedelically-inspired musical abilities. Like many others, Storey has fallen under the spell of Aphex Twin and Autechre and has been shaped by the complex rhythmic structures and emotive melodic phrases associated with their music.

These influences are evident on the stripped-down opener ‘North Facing’, the Mary Anne Hobbs-supported ‘Devotion Notion’, as well as ‘Chordelia’ and ‘The Overview Effect’, the final two tracks on the album. Storey is also heavily inspired by funk in its myriad forms, from Prince to Parliament, to the crazed robotics of Drexciya and the raw techno sludge of Cristian Vogel and Neil Landstrumm through to dark drum and bass from artists like Ed Rush & Optical.

Although influences are forever overlapping, if you listen close enough, you can hear the funk flowing in ‘Reserved’ and in the melodic lead single ‘Shaman Champagne’. Echoes can also be heard in the rhythmic ‘Combustion Hallmark’ and the raw ‘One Sound’. ‘Double Divide’ is music for the mind and feet, inspired by feelings that are indescribable, which to Storey, is the essence of good music.

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released October 6, 2014

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Second Storey Berlin, Germany

Alec Storey is the latest artist to shift phase and re-christen his output after signing to our label; progressing from his Al Tourettes moniker in favour of the more becoming alias, Second Storey.

He’s always produced music that’s alluded quite openly to his passions for free party soundsystems and rave culture. ... more

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