Sound of Fractures

The thing that matters to me most is that my music makes me feel something, it's become this way for me to record my life and embed my story into what I create. I like the idea that the people I love and maybe their children will listen back one day and start to pick through the music and find all these memories buried in there. I always start writing with some kind of sample I recorded on my phone, and while digging through my audio notes I found this recording of my daughter's heartbeat.. I recorded it during one of the early scans and had totally forgotten about it.. I knew instantly that this was the starting point for me that day. I feel like the only thing we can rely on to help us stand out these days is to be ourselves, it's the one thing we can count on that makes us unique. Putting my life into my music is my way of doing that, and has become my ‘why’.

Those early scans can be a terrifying time, you are a bundle of nerves and heading into this great big unknown, and there is something so visceral about hearing that living heartbeat the first time. It’s one of those life moments where you are overwhelmed by emotions that you don't quite understand, and yet you are also scared to let yourself feel them in case something goes wrong. Everytime I hear this song it takes me back to that feeling, and for me that's what music should do: transport you somewhere. So really it's about moments, impactful moments that music so often attaches itself too. It's what makes music both challenging to earn a living from in the modern visual world, but also what makes it totally unique.. It soundtracks our experiences and bonds to them forever.

Willow's Heartbeat is the inaugural single from the forthcoming debut album Scenes, where listeners' will take part by contributing their personal memories and see them transformed into a collective audiovisual tapestry.

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Willow's Heartbeat [original demo extended mix]

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Now and Always

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Life Hacks is an ode to city life, to that feeling of escapism, like your part of this living thing. It’s walking through Soho at 3am with your friends, the night bus home, it’s the bustle, driving at night, the neon lights, the beautiful chaos of city nightlife.

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Life Hacks. [Extended Mix]

Traces is inspired by the way memories and experiences trigger your emotions. In particular, the way that the tiny moments are what stick with you most about a person when you are faced with losing them; The touch of a hand, a look, the air … these tiny traces of a moment that encapsulate all of your emotional connection.

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Traces

Sunflowers is all about breaking free from whats holding you back. It's about overcoming your fears and growing in the best person you can be, letting go of anxiety, insecurity and embracing the moment.

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Sunflowers

Your Touch is a love letter to club music, its about what makes music unique, how it reaches out and touches our lives, attaches its self to memories, moments and people. For me so much of that is connected to London and Uk dance music. When I was writing the song it took me back to all those emotions and memories that are attached to everyone the song touches on it’s journey through to the rave.. it’s like that emotion being passed down till it gets to live in the club. It’s more than sound, you’re transported back to a moment, a feeling and all the emotions you felt then…. the song becomes a part of so many different peoples lives in different ways

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Your Touch

Original song by Mark de Clive-Lowe
Remix Production by Sound of Fractures

This Remix felt like another full circle moment for me as Mark was one of the first people to offer me guidance in web3, and feedback on my first Mirror post. So, to find my way on to Catalog and my first vinyl through the Mashi Beats Remix Competition was yet another piece of the puzzle that was a perfect fit. 

It's rare that you get multiple songs to play with for a remix, so working on the Mashi Beats remix competition was exciting for me. Whenever I do a remix I always try a few ideas as I feel it's the only way to know which one is the right one, and it took me a while to find my feet. I was determined to find something that felt like me, but kept the essence of the original too… I think I tried 4 different songs! In the end, as is often the case, the first idea I started was the one that made me feel the most excited. There were so many musical parts to chop up and build from it was like working with a great sample pack. I always aim to approach remixes the same way I make music, and I started by building some atmospheres and loops that carry enough emotion to pull me into the flow state. In the end I have to be able to get lost in a remix for it to feel right.. and for me this could fit easily on one of my own releases as well as on one of Mark’s.

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This remix was produced as part of the first Mashi Beats remix contest and selected to be minted through community voting. Primary collectors will also receive the ltd edition remixes color vinyl EP including this remix - estimated delivery late October 2022

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Mark de Clive-Lowe – Blue Hour (Sound of Fractures Remix)

“'Real Friends’ is about the people around you that matter, that realisation that as you grow, there are certain friendships that are always there and that last through all the ups and downs of life. Even when you drift apart, the small memories of the special moments you have together stick with you forever.” 

This is the most important song in my journey so far, it represents everything that i feel my music should. It all grew from here.

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Real Friends

Shaped by the culture of UK dance music, hip-hop and soul, and based around the concept of finding beauty in imperfection, Sound of Fractures takes influence from the likes of Massive Attack, Jamie XX, Burial and Frank Ocean — sharing honest and visceral experience through music which takes an air of nostalgia through sound and imagery.