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I needed a break from house and disco, so I was listening to something new age, and I was like: she uses her voice for instruments, she’s harmonising and her voice is blending in the background, it’s like you can barely make out what she’s singing – that’s a cool concept. Over 140 of his tracks will be available digitally for the first time, including ‘Saved my Life,’ one of his earliest and most well-recognised creations. This month alone has been a busy release schedule for him; a 2-step remix of Sonny Fodera and Just Kiddin’s “Closer” with Lilly Ahlberg, and a collab with Fred Falke and Zen Freeman’s Ampersounds track “Money” kicked the month off and then, this Friday (June 18), he’s helming his own House Masters compilation for Defected.
Sign up for Digg's daily morning newsletter to get the most interesting stories of the moment delivered directly to your inbox.The sound quickly drew traction as the freshest sound to take over the underground since jungle, first finding its feet on pirate radio stations before beginning to take hold of the mainstream as it progressed to a 2-step beat.
COMPLEX participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means COMPLEX gets paid commissions on purchases made through our links to retailer sites.The video keeps getting removed from YouTube, but whenever it does, someone else uploads it again: jerky cameraphone footage of a man in a homemade T-shirt that reads Jesus Loves UK Garage, DJing at an Essex club in 2003. His lifelong passion for all things UK garage, and his sincere care in how he approaches the genre and the scene, immediately ingratiated him with the UK when he first started coming over in the early 2000s. And there were other opportunities: Daft Punk asked him to collaborate on their vastly successful second album, Discovery; he ended up co-writing and singing “like the guy from Foreigner” on Face to Face, a fantastic melding of Edwards’ signature style with the duo’s glossy machine disco. There is a “very personal, very intense” documentary in the works, centring around his lost 2006 album Odyssey, a Discovery-inspired exploration of Christianity that, among its other delights, featured Edwards inhaling helium in a bid to sound like Björk.