The year starts with a release. So Ready is out now on Waes Hael, a new Mighty Force compilation, and the title is more biographical than I intended when I made the track.
So Ready. Seven months until the release of my next big release, Fragile World. The new album is deep in its final stages now and the title of this track caught up with where I actually am: ready for it to be out in the world, ready for the work of these past two years to find its audience, ready for what comes next.
The track itself is a piece of deep, rolling Detroit techno. Stripped back, patient, built around a groove that doesn’t ask for your attention so much as quietly insist on it. It is, in some ways, a concentrated statement of the sound that runs through Fragile World: the same values, the same relationship between rhythm and space, the same refusal to rush.
Waes Hael is an Old English phrase meaning roughly be in good health, used as a toast. There’s something I like about that as a compilation title in this particular moment, at the start of a year that feels significant. Be in good health. Here’s to what’s coming. My wife, Jenny, did the artwork for this 🙂
Mighty Force continue to put together releases that I’m proud to be part of. The catalogue they’ve built since 2019 is one of the things I most admire in the current underground landscape.
