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Extended Classics

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Essential expansion pack to the Selected Classics LP, Extended Classics delivers on its name, re-sequencing 19 more liquid minimalist gems from Andrew Dahabrah’s 345-minute 2018 FOANS odyssey, Classics. It’s a headspace both troubled and transportive, deftly mapped midnight systems of bass, haze, rhythm, and breath. Crafted in the wake of 2016’s Frontier, these tracks capture FOANS’ signature sound at its most streamlined, slinky, and smeared, dance transmissions for cold starlit nights, shaded in doubt and dreams.

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Selected Classics

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Selected Classics presents a crucially curated cross section of Colorado producer Andrew Dahabrah aka FOANS’ finest work, sourced from a nearly six-hour self-released vault of tracks posted to his Bandcamp in 2018. Simply called Classics, the sprawling 100-song digital collection was intended as the project’s final offering – a comprehensive culling of the hard drive, after which there’d be “no looking back.” Fortunately, minds have changed, and FOANS remains extant, but an air of finality and desperation still haunts these tracks, born of bruised emotions and the burnout of working seven days a week “in the middle of nowhere” as an electrician in isolated oil fields. It’s music of hidden hours and private survival, slipstreaming through sleek cybernetic house, gauzy matrix ambience, low-slung dusty jack, and woozy fractal techno. Placeless and weightless, heady and kinetic, Selected Classics distills Dahabrah’s sidewinding inner vision to its swooning fiber optic essence.

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Gateway

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Re-sequenced and lightly abridged physical edition of Denver producer Andrew Dahabrah’s latest melancholic house masterpiece, Gateway. 14 vivid vignettes of rhythm, hypnosis, and heartache, dreaming of better times and other worlds. Crafted in the aftermath of a family tragedy, the music took shape as both anchor and escape hatch, solace from and for the sudden storms of life. Dusty downtempo and loops of lo-fi longing slipstream into night sky techno, galactic jack, and parallel shades of inner space motion. A deepening portal between pain and possibility, glittering like a sea of stars above icy peaks: “What better way to spread love and healing than through music.”

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Frontier

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The latest slate of rarified Rocky Mountain nocturnal house moods by sharpening craftsman Andrew Dahabrah distills his production instincts to their starkest, most sensual essence. Tight, tense rhythms intertwine with sinuous bass lines overcast by fluttering software gauze and dizzy sequencer patterns, evoking thin air, cold roads, icy peaks, oxygen deprivation. Since 2013 the FOANS discography has deepened at a steady clip, morphing through pixelated ambience, trip-hop abstraction, and bedroom techno – capped by last year’s Schema cassette for austere Danish electronics imprint Speaker Footage – but Frontier synthesizes the project’s strengths in a uniquely persuasive manner: lush, strung out, blissed out, bleary. Dahabrah paints the picture succinctly: “These tracks were made late at night.” Fluid city hazes in high altitudes by a deepening talent.  Mastered by Alex Nagle.