Sasha Shares ‘Warewolf’

Is ‘Scene Delete’ Sasha’s best work since Involver? Here at Data Transmission we’re certainly inclined to think so, with inimitable Welshman seemingly back on top following last year’s break from touring, wherein he decided to to recharge his batteries by spending some time with his family and perhaps most excitingly finishing a number of studio projects he’d been working on.

Never one to be tied down for too long, it came as little surprise when Last Night On Earth announced that he would be embarking upon an entirely new course for 2016, serving up an album for Late Night Tales that takes inspiration from the works of Messrs Frahm, Richter and Reich rather than the dancefloor.

“About three years ago, my collaborators David Gardner and ThermalBear and I wrote a song called ‘Bring On The Night’. I sent it to Ultraista and within a few days she sent it back with this amazing vocal on, with Nigel Godrich playing keyboards. We tried to do club mixes but we just couldn’t get it right. So it sat there doing nothing,” Sasha explains.

“Tracks like this kept building up, until finally last summer my frustration boiled over. We’d made so many tunes that I couldn’t remember the names of half of them: What was that thing with a bass sound and a string line? It drove me mental. At the same time as we were logging these tracks, I was listening to the Jon Hopkins’ Late Night Tales and I thought a lot of the music we’d been working on was in the same vibe. So I sent the music over to Late Night Tales and they really liked it.

Initially, I thought we’d just do a Late Night Tales compilation with maybe a few pieces of my own music. But as we went through everything we’d worked on in the last two years, we realised we had about 50 pieces of music. So we started editing and compiling: ‘Scene Delete’ is the end result.”

Set to arrive April 1st, you can check out the full tracklist for ‘Scene Delete’ and album cut ‘Warewolf’ below.