As Saturday night approaches, we thought we’d get to grips with some selected highlights from Leon Vynehall’s career thus far. So get comfortable and let us give you a one stop shop to some of Leon’s best mixes, tracks and interviews gathered from the world wide web.
To give you some flavour of the man we’re also linking to a couple of interesting press pieces, beginning with an interview for Resident Advisor Magazine from earlier this year who put it like this “…Leon approaches house music with the sound palette of late ’70s disco and golden era hip-hop. At their best, his tracks are bottom-heavy, just a little dusty and graced with indelible hooks.” Read the full ‘be brave’ feature HERE.
Leon Vynehall’s route to house music hasn’t been direct. He elaborates on this when catching up with Red Bull Music Academy. “One of the reasons I wanted to talk about it is because over the past year, there’s been a real resurgence in cassette releases. The first song I wrote was “Goodthing,” which was started back in Brighton in October 2012. I would hope when people see what the concept is about, it’s not a by-product of something that’s recently come about again. It’s not about “oh, cassettes are cool again,” people lazily branding it a hipster thing.”
Read the full article over at RBMA.
This year he recorded this excellent mix for FACT magazine:
Listen up to this Hyp podcast which showcases some of his own early productions:
Here’s that Leon and Christian Piers collaborative project ‘Laszlo Dancehall’ live in the Boiler Room:
On a solo tip here’s his Boiler Room inauguration from Summer 2012:
Away from the house and techno, earlier this year Leon delivered this exclusive mixture of his own unreleased edits just for Solid Steel radio. On a Ninja Tune vibe he pulled out some 90s hip hop beats and got some mates to sing and mc over it too. Proper old school mix-tape stylee.
To finish things off only a few months ago Boiler Room spent an afternoon with the man himself. Listen up to this one one where he takes us on a musical journey with a few surprises along the way…
We’re all looking forward to more of the same at Subculture on Saturday where sweet and fresh House music beckons with our youngest resident Telford holding the fort for the night too. Advance tickets are on sale from RA and in store or online from Tickets Scotland. More will also be available on the door from 11pm.