{"title":"DJ Plant Texture","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"life-4","title":"Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eDonato Basile AKA DJ Plant Texture always wants his music to tell a story, and with his debut EP on Tresor Records, entitled Life, he’s now trying to tell the biggest story there is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the artist, “Life is about the fear of growing up”; both the anxiety itself and acknowledging and moving past it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis narrative seems to have struck a chord with those who have heard the track, “People want to reflect themselves in the music; something personal. Lots of people have been in touch after hearing it; I guess they feel something melancholic in it. Personally, I imagine the track is like the life of a person; going from being born through childhood and youth and onwards, so perhaps they hear this?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHaving used an MPC since the early 2000s, Basile feels an intuitive connection to the hardware he uses, and so the creative process is very spontaneous: “I know where everything is so the music is made immediately. I make everything in the first ten minutes; after that if it’s not right then I just abandon it and start something else.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis immediacy, and familiarity with his equipment is apparent on the A-side, where Basile’s previous life as a drummer comes to the fore and tracks like Cycles and Ripetivo display his native understanding of groove but also how to stir things up - the three A-side tracks find classic techno rhythms seemingly falling apart only to snap back into place even stronger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe B-side finds Donato exploring more of his melodic side with WTT and the aforementioned title track showing Plant Texture’s love of breakbeat and classic techno.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three digital bonus tracks continue this exploration of melody and syncopated beats - The EXP Days echoes the wistful feeling of Life, as Basile meditates on the times spent at EXP, his record shop in Bari, which functioned as a meeting place for electronic producers in the area.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tresor","offers":[{"title":"12\" - Black","offer_id":51292618686795,"sku":"2500024-S","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/TRESOR376.jpg?v=1739889900"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/dj-plant-texture.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}