Name: Workaround
Brand: Beatrice Dillon

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

PAN106LP

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black

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Discs

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Rough Trade Exclusive

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Extended format

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Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2020-11-27

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Supplier GB

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UPC / Barcode

5060165485338

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Beatrice Dillon

Genre GB

Electronic

Label GB

<i>Workaround</i> is the lucidly playful and ambitious solo debut album by rhythm-obsessive musician and DJ, Beatrice Dillon for Pan. It combines her love of UK club music’s syncopated suss and Afro-Caribbean influences with a gamely experimental approach to modern composition and stylistic fusion, using inventive sampling and luminous mixing techniques adapted from modern pop to express fresh ideas about groove-driven music and perpetuate its form with timeless, future-proofed clarity.<br><br>Recorded over 2017-19 between studios in London, Berlin and New York, ‘Workaround’ renders a hypnotic series of polymetric permutations at a fixed 150bpm tempo. Mixing meticulous FM synthesis and harmonics with crisply edited acoustic samples from a wide range of guests including UK Bhangra pioneer Kuljit Bhamra (tabla); Pharoah Sanders Band’s Jonny Lam (pedal steel guitar); techno innovators Laurel Halo (synth/vocal) and Batu (samples); Senegalese Griot Kadialy Kouyaté (Kora), Hemlock’s Untold and new music specialist Lucy Railton (cello); amongst others, Dillon deftly absorbs their distinct instrumental colours and melody into 14 bright and spacious computerised frameworks that suggest immersive, nuanced options for dancers, DJs and domestic play.

Workaround

Music GB