RA Sessions: Andy Stott New Romantic, Resident Advisor
It s been very rewarding to be an Andy Stott fan over the years. If you got into the Manchester producer early on, you would have enjoyed the quality and quantity of his singles for the excellent Manchester label Modern Love. Stott had a knack for writing novel tracks out of classic sounds, and in particular dub techno, a genre that s notoriously tricky to get right without sounding like a Basic Channel replica. He eventually grew tired of his cluborientated music, and after a period of banging his head against the wall, Stott returned with a distinctive new style he described at the time as knackered house sludgy tempos, grainy sounds, dense atmospheres. It was a sharp left turn, but rather than losing followers he seemed to gain lots more. This period established Stott as an album artist, and he s since written two more fulllengths: Faith In Strangers, RA s favourite album of 2014, was weirder, more diverse and, in places, songorientated, while its followup, Too Many Voices,
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