'Endtroducing'

Immersif and his Grands Bains EP

- Hi Axel, how are you and how does it feel like releasing music on Apparel Music?

Hi ! I'm fine, i hope you too. I dig through your releases since a while now, i love your artworks, and the way your artistic line is at the same time very coherent and then providing a wide range of sub genres of the electronic music realm. A lot of confirmed house music producers that i admire have released stuffs on Apparel Music, so it's an honour to be part of it.

- Talk us through the creative process behind the making of this EP. How did it come about and how did you work on it?

When i want to produce a new track, i always start with a sample, which will give the key of the track, and an predefined idea. Then, i will build the drums, the bassline and the other elements jamming out around this idea. When i have all these elements, i can start to build the track arrangements and then i apply some processing and mixing stuffs. For this EP, i started all the tracks with saxophones samples, digged through my jazz records collection or via professional platforms like Tracklib, which provide high-quality material. From the beginning of the creative process of this EP, i wanted to build three tracks in three differents sub-genres and with three differents energies, but all united by a jazzy vibe. On this EP, the track i had i the most fun producing is "Analog Breakup". Usually, my tracks try to respect rhythmic codes of a specific sub genre, but on this one i was able to let my imagination run wild, using a lot of complex polyrhythmic tricks and spent hours to sound design little details and textures.

- Could you share with us three tracks that inspired you during the making of the record?

For the first one i have choose "Anchor" from Laurence Guy. He is one of my favorite producers, with an incredible and rich discography. I have discovered Anchor at the early beginning of the past year, and it was an instant crush. Some tracks have this power to remind you a period of your life, and little details about it. "Anchor" is one of these tracks. I think this one and "Wichita Falls" have clearly infused into my imagination when i produced "Grands Bains". For the second one, i have to select a drum & bass track, in reference of the jungle-ish "Eyssina Express". So it would be "Rhodes to Freedom" from the legendary LTJ Bukem. I love so much all this old school atmospheric jungle era. Some house producers, like Janeret or Moomin, have decided to include dnb tracks on their EPs, so i decide to do the same. I'm a house producer, this is my favourite genre but liquid drum & bass will have a special place in my musical heart for ever. For the last one, it's a track from Burial, "Street Halo". He is so far one of my favorite producers of all time, all genres combined. I love his very specific sound signature, his crazies sound design and processing tricks, the crispy drums, the weird grooves, and the ability he has to produce tracks and atmospheres we could "visualize". In its domain, Street Halo is a strong one, very powerful and nostalgic.