Born Ready
Jo Bevan
| Formats | Tracks | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Download Single (MP3) | 4 tracks | £3.96 | |
| Download Single (WAV) | 4 tracks | £3.96 | |
| Download individual tracks | From £0.99 | ||
Description
Jo Bevan - Born Ready
Best known as the magnetic frontwoman of London post-punks, Desperate Journalist, Jo Bevan has traded chiming guitars for shimmering electro textures on her first solo release, ‘Born Ready’ via The state51 Conspiracy
‘Born Ready’ draws influence from both pop music and electronica, as well as Jo’s earliest childhood musical endeavours with a battered Yamaha keyboard, to create an ethereal and melodic slice of synth music that is unlike anything she’s done before.
“The song is the result of me playing around with a Volca Sample sequencer and trying to familiarise myself with it” Jo explains, “I still don’t quite know how it works. I eventually wrote a simple tune around my first favourite beat which then evolved into this sort of anxious quiet banger. It’s nice to be able to do something more on the pure pop side as opposed to the slightly more alternative music we do in Desperate Journalist.”
The song is accompanied by remixes of the track from some of the most exciting names in underground electronic music - UKAEA, Oh The Gilt & Ekoplekz.
Each remix finds a different aspect of ‘Born Ready’ brought to the fore, with UKAEA transforming the song into a beat-laden, dub deconstruction, Ekoplekz focussing on the songs atmospherics and stretching them out into an otherworldly, psychedelic soundscape, and Oh The Gilt (a production duo made up of John Doran and John Tatlock) taking the pure pop elements and spinning them out into a nearly ten minute acid house mix that feels like an undiscovered rave classic.
“I love them,” Bevan says of the versions. “The Oh the Gilt one is a Balearic masterpiece! I don’t feel precious about the music so the main thing I was excited about was hearing what parts other people were going to pick up on as the most prominent, particularly if people really fuck up the vocals.”
‘Born Ready’ draws influence from both pop music and electronica, as well as Jo’s earliest childhood musical endeavours with a battered Yamaha keyboard, to create an ethereal and melodic slice of synth music that is unlike anything she’s done before.
“The song is the result of me playing around with a Volca Sample sequencer and trying to familiarise myself with it” Jo explains, “I still don’t quite know how it works. I eventually wrote a simple tune around my first favourite beat which then evolved into this sort of anxious quiet banger. It’s nice to be able to do something more on the pure pop side as opposed to the slightly more alternative music we do in Desperate Journalist.”
The song is accompanied by remixes of the track from some of the most exciting names in underground electronic music - UKAEA, Oh The Gilt & Ekoplekz.
Each remix finds a different aspect of ‘Born Ready’ brought to the fore, with UKAEA transforming the song into a beat-laden, dub deconstruction, Ekoplekz focussing on the songs atmospherics and stretching them out into an otherworldly, psychedelic soundscape, and Oh The Gilt (a production duo made up of John Doran and John Tatlock) taking the pure pop elements and spinning them out into a nearly ten minute acid house mix that feels like an undiscovered rave classic.
“I love them,” Bevan says of the versions. “The Oh the Gilt one is a Balearic masterpiece! I don’t feel precious about the music so the main thing I was excited about was hearing what parts other people were going to pick up on as the most prominent, particularly if people really fuck up the vocals.”