On December 15, 2017 Canadian imprint Bohemian Yacht Club presents to the world Amsterdam to Broadway, a brilliantly realized and emotional album by Brian Johnson. After a two-year hiatus, Bohemian Yacht Club returns making waves with its vision of showcasing new and diverse sounds from its roots in Canada and Japan. The label is excited to make its return with the launch of its premiere full-length album from Brian Johnson which will be preceded by a lead single ‘Silent Reign’, out December 8th.
Things start in breezy, lush synth territory with the sun-dappled grooves of ‘Amsterdam’ before getting a little deeper and darker on the spine tingling ‘White Lies & White Lines’. The fantastic ‘Flamingo’ cuts loose with tech-edged drums and cosmic melodies and synths all bubbling away, while ‘That Life’ pulls back again to focus on Johnson’s moody drum work and icy percussion. It’s fulsome, busy stuff that really locks your attention.
Showing his diverse range, are radiant, melodically rich tracks like ‘Silent Reign (Heart of Stone)’ and the glassy tinkles and mellifluous xylophone ripples of ‘Mid- Round Revival’. The darker, more turbulent ‘Deuxteronamy’ offers a moodier groove that keeps you on your toes, and things peak with the uptempo tech of ‘Mastro & Msg’ (featuring Alex Mastro) before closing on the thoughtful house of ‘Regal Rant’ with its ethereal vocals, and the escapist and kaleidoscopic synths and percussive patterns of ‘Broadway (featuring Blank 6)’.
Amsterdam to Broadway is an expressive album with many different shades of house music and plenty of emotion, underpinned by great grooves.
Tracklist.
1. Amsterdam (featuring Koki, DeepSea).
2. White Lies & White Lines.
3. Flamingo.
4. That Life.
5. Silent Reign (Heart of Stone).
6. 99% Interlude (featuring Blank|6).
7. Mid-Round Revival.
8. Deuxteronamy.
9. Mastro & Msg (featuring Alex Mastro).
10. Regal Rant.
11. Broadway (featuring Blank|6).
“This is the first release of the next chapter of Bohemian Yacht Club Music, as it charts its course forward to its new way of life, state of mind and atmosphere.” – Bohemian Yacht Club.
About Brian Johnson.
Canadian artist and label partner Brian Johnson attended the Royal Conservatory of Music and has been DJing & producing for years. He has recorded, mixed and mastered thousands of tracks for numerous artists and has worked with Mos Def, Berrington Levy and Drake among others. Johnson is well known not only as the co- founder of Core Collective and Core Studios, but as an emerging artist and producer of his own original style of music that mixes deep house, dub and techno into emotionally raw forms. As seen here in Amsterdam to Broadway, Brian does that across 12 superb and engaging new tracks.
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