LA Priest releases Alan Braxe remix of “It’s You”
LA PRIEST
Releases Alan Braxe remix of “It’s You”
New album Fase Luna out now
Supporting Jungle on European Autumn tour
“(On “It’s You”) One of LA Priest’s strongest moments.” Clash
“LA Priest has created something magical.” The New Cue
Following a roaring tour of the UK and Europe to celebrate the release of his third studio album Fase Luna earlier this year, today LA Priest, aka Sam Eastgate, releases a remix of funked-up love song “It’s You” by legendary French Touch international DJ and producer, Alan Braxe.
Deliciously disco infused with a warm, pulsating bassline, Braxe’s remix of “It’s You” elevates the original into a new league of its own, perfectly complementing Eastgate’s vocals and promising an instant dance-floor rush. On the release, Eastgate comments: “Not since my first track “Engine” in 2007 has a LA Priest release felt this earth-shakingly funked up and sonically unstoppable.”
“Working on LA Priest’s “It’s You” was an absolute pleasure,” Braxe also comments. “It’s a truly moving and beautiful song. Remixing it was intimidating at first but after an immersion into the track playing with both Sam's vocals and the bass guitar, the Disco side of it popped up in my mind. I hope you'll like it."
Listen to “It’s You (Alan Braxe remix)” here.
Watch the visualiser for “It’s You (Alan Braxe remix)" here.
The original version of “It’s You” was an instant LA Priest classic, with Clash labelling it as “one of LA Priest’s strongest moments” on release. Lyrically based on the story of “a guy who falls in love with a sea mermaid or water spirit and has to choose between life on the land or the ocean”, it was released alongside an unforgettable video directed by Eoin Glaister (Glass Animals, Joji) and starring Juliet Cowan (The Power, PhoneShop) about a woman who falls helplessly in love with a sewage fatberg.
Following his successful UK + European solo tour, LA Priest is currently on a European tour supporting Jungle, aka electronic producers Josh Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland. Tickets on sale now from here.
Live dates:
24th Oct – Le Centquatre, Paris, FR *
25th Oct - Le Centquatre, Paris, FR *
27th Oct – Sant Jordi Club, Barcelona, ES *
28th Oct – Palacio Vistalegre, Madrid, ES *
5th Nov – Tonhalle, Munich, DE *
8th Nov – Verti Music Hall, Berlin, DE *
13th Nov – Sporthalle, Hamburg, DE *
14th Nov – Palladium Cologne, Cologne, DE *
3rd Dec – Baby’s All Right, Brooklyn, NY, USA
5th Dec – The Echo, Los Angeles, CA, USA
* = supporting Jungle
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Variously known as Sam Dust, LA Priest and L.A. Priest, Eastgate has built a reputation as a subversive, unpredictable musician, consistently innovating over the course of his work with his now defunct breakout band Late Of The Pier, his cherished Soft Hair collaboration with Connan Mockasin as well as his solo work under LA Priest.
His third studio album Fase Luna was recorded for the most part in Mexico and the rainforests of Costa Rica. From the gently warped guitars on super-chilled opener “On”, through to the slow and tender closing track “No More”, each song on Fase Luna weaves and undulates into the next, creating an immersive whole. Sam was struck by each area’s mythical history and ancient connections to the ocean, drawing heavily on both to pack Fase Luna with stories of spirits and imaginations of life on the ocean bed.
Without a synthesiser in sight, it is the purest LA Priest record yet. And with drums laid down by local musician Carlos Gabriel Favela Manzano in Mexico as Sam hummed the melodies, the closest the record gets to modern technology of any kind is the translation tool he used to write the Spanish lyrics of far out “fairy story”, “Sail On”. Raw and unfiltered, Fase Luna offers a one-way ticket to another world.
“I want to give people a feeling that they’re free when they listen to it, it’s not bringing you back to reality, it’s escapism.”
Fase Luna is available to buy now on exclusive white vinyl + Fase Luna artwork poster bundles (Dom Mart only), white vinyl (via independent stores), standard black vinyl, CD and digitally. Buy: Dom Mart | Digital.
Gene III, the new drum machine hand made, designed and carefully calibrated by LA Priest, is also available to pre-order now. The first fully analog, grid-free, polyrhythmic, flexibly quantizable drum machine ever made (that we know of), Gene III is the culmination of nearly 10 years of electronic experiments. Pre-order and find out more here.
