It isn’t certainly any usual day when you get to know a legend is releasing a lot of original productions. A fact that exhilarates us to the core for the incredible and timeless classics that are soon going to be once again shinning in our playlists. It’s the return of Alexander Coe better known to the world as Sasha with a brand new compilation that is a mix of original productions set to release on 3xLP, CD, and in a deluxe box set.
His first album since 2002’s Airdrawndagger, Scene Delete will be released on UK label Late Night Tales, primarily known for their artist-curated compilation series. Having featured contributions already from the likes of Bonobo, Jamiroquai and The Flaming Lips to name a few, this one from Sasha marks for a significant shift in his career as the compilation comes off inspiration from the likes of minimalist composers such as Nils Frahm, Max Richter, and Steve Reich. About how Scene Delete evolved, Sasha explained:
I love post-minimalist modern classical, I love to listen to something completely different that’ s quite hypnotic as well. It almost… purges the system. About three years ago, my collaborators David Gardner and ThermalBear and I wrote a song called “Bring On The Night.” I sent it to Ultraista and within a few days she sent it back with this amazing vocal on, with Nigel Godrich playing keyboards. We tried to do club mixes but we just couldn’t get it right. So it sat there doing nothing.
Tracks like this kept building up, until finally last summer my frustration boiled over. We’ d made so many tunes that I couldn’t remember the names of half of them: What was that thing with a bass sound and a string line? It drove me mental. At the same time as we were logging these tracks, I was listening to the Jon Hopkins’ Late Night Tales and I thought a lot of the music we’d been working on was in the same vibe. So I sent the music over to Late Night Tales and they really liked it.
Initially, I thought we’d just do a Late Night Tales compilation with maybe a few pieces of my own music. But as we went through everything we’ d worked on in the last two years, we realized we had about 50 pieces of music. So we started editing and compiling: Scene Delete is the end result.
Along with the announcement, Coe dropped a track preview from the album, tiled ‘View2’. The composition revolves around a meditative style to form a gradually warmed and sensitively controlled number. Scene Delete lands on April 1st via Late Night Tales, while you can pre-order it now off iTunes. Check full tracklist of the album and listen to the preview of ‘View2’ below:
Scene Delete Tracklist:
- Channel Deq
- View2
- Baracus
- Linepulse
- Time After Time
- Detour
- Pontiac
- Cassette Sessions D
- Cassette Sessions E
- Healer
- Modcon
- Scarpa Falls
- Warewolf
- Bring On The Nighttime feat. Ultraista
- Corvette
- Shelter
- Untitled 3
- Abacus
- Rooms feat. John Graham
- Broadcast
- Vapour Trails
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