#william bevan

“It’s more about when you come back from being out somewhere; in a minicab or a night bus, or with someone, or walking home across London late at night, dreamlike, and you’ve still got the music kind of echoing in you, in your bloodstream, but with real life trying to get in the way. I want it to be like a little sanctuary. It’s like that 24-hour stand selling tea on a rainy night, glowing in the dark. It’s pretty simple.”

Burial | Comafields

Burial | Imaginary Festival

Mark Fisher’s interview with Burial

Furthermore, Burial is recreating the analog experience through the traditional art of sampling, the complete opposite direction of what a lot of the EDM producers do with their EDM stock filters, such as enhancing bass digitally on dance tracks for cheaper, less state-of-the-art sound systems. (EDM can be distastefully produced as it stomps all over history and squashes all of the various genres together into an automatic fast food audio sandwich, an insult to the history and culture) This process in EDM tracks is often achieved through the use of lackluster digital software, which diminishes the natural production process. The comparison of these two polar opposites reinforces the musicianship Streetlands is trying to convey, the flux of the electronic music experience, which is really the experience of sound altogether.