Lomidze & Judzhen — 6th Floor
Release date August 11, 2022
On August 11, 2022, Lomidze and Judzhen present their first collaborative release “6th Floor”. The release contains three deep mood tracks, and its digital version now available on Bandcamp.
The first collaboration of two creators took place in 2014: at that time Judzhen recorded a track “Desert Island”, which was remixed by Lomidze and released under his label “Datenbits”. In fact, the idea to collaborate, came to them at the Covid lockdowns time.
“I remember cold winter, it was -20°C outside, the time was dark, Rahbarber was closed, and I craved for making a warm, summer Muse, which comes in handy now,” says Judzhen. “It was a breath of fresh air for me, as a producer. I do love all the tracks we have recorded.”
“I have always been for experiments, for making music in collaboration with someone. For me, the process itself is crucial, and it turned out to be extremely entertaining!” – Lomidze states. — “Judzhen was responsible for the beats and structure, and I added my typical melancholic melodies. As a result we have beautiful, vintage tracks.”
Each of the artists has their own clear vision, and in the end they managed to combine different and independent ideas and find a balance. They worked on the tracks in Lomidze’s studio on the sixth floor – this is how the name of the EP appeared. In total, four or five tracks were recorded, but the final version of the edition will include three: “Light Go Out”, “Mood Swing” and the jungle “Tunnel”.
“If you listen to the latest albums of many house producers, you will definitely hear some kind of drum and bass or even hip-hop track at the end of them,” the duo says. — “And we wanted our release to be as diverse as possible, not to make listeners bored. We also tried to make the tracks just right in length, not too long and not too short.”
“If you listen to the latest albums of many house producers, you will definitely hear some kind of drum and bass or even hip-hop track at the end of them,” the duo says. — “And we wanted our release to be as diverse as possible, not to make listeners bored. We also tried to make the tracks just right in length, not too long and not too short.”
Tracks were recorded on hardware: Korg Wavestation, Elektron Digitakt and Analog Four, Prophet and vintage Mopho. Since both wanted to get the most vintage sound possible, the mastering was done at the MonoMono Studio, where the tracks were processed on vintage musical instruments.
The “6th Floor” EP will first be released digitally via Bandcamp. And the duo plans to it on physical media: “If the music causes a resonance, in the future we are thinking of making an album.” On the vinyl version, Lomidze and Judzhen hope to release alternate versions created during the recording as well as some remixes.
All tracks written & produced by Lomidze and Judzhen.
Mixed by Lomidze. Mastered by Monomono Studio.
Artwork: Photo by Mr. Boga.
Design by Ouff Grafik.
