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Will Saul, Fink & James Alexander Bright
Paradise Ave
Aus Music
- Cat No: AUS200DPHY
- updated:2025-06-08
A collaborative project between Will Saul, who ran AUS MUSIC, Fink, and James Alexander Bright, who has released on !K7, Athens Of The North and others. Slow synthesizer dance music in the lineage of Robert Owens and company. An allure that's hard to put into words.
Track List
Aus Music founder Will Saul collaborates with Fink and James Alexander Bright on the final EP in the AUS200.
After music from the likes of Quantic, Dam Swindle, K-Lone and Cinithe, Will Saul brings celebrations around his label's 200th release to a close with one track alongside long-time friend Fink and one with James Alexander Bright, an artist he discovered and signed to !K7 during a 10-year stint A&Ring with the label.
Saul's music has provided the backbone of the label since day one. His club-ready EPs and more immersive, expansive albums have helped to define its melodically rich fusion of bass and house. Just as importantly, his A&R has helped it evolve over the last two decades so it remains as relevant as ever with the current generation while providing a platform for contemporary talents to shine.
First up here he links up with his old friend, singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer Fink who, as Sideshow, was behind the first-ever release on Aus back in 2006. Since then, he and Saul have continued a fruitful working relationship which now bears juicy musical fruit once more. Their 'Slo-mo Life' is six sublime minutes of deep, dubbed-out downtempo. It's powered by a prowling bassline with tender melodies and introspective chords next to subtle vocal loops that cannot fail to bliss you out. Fink then offers up a remix as Sideshow that rides on airy jungle breaks while evocative synths are smeared in painterly fashion before decaying in endless reverb to an angelic ambient sound.
British multi-hyphenate James Alexander Bright has built up a colourful body of albums and EPs that soundtrack everything from hazy daydreams to lazy afternoons in the park via dance floor trips. The singer has worked with, among others, Groove Armada’s Tom Findlay and Girls Of The Internet and always brings a lovably lo-fi and intoxicating sensibility.
'Blue' is a raw, live sound with crashing hits and broken kick patterns. Bright's nagging vocal speaks of emotional pain while shimmering chords bring the heat. Bright's remix reworks the track into a widescreen hazy breakbeat soul track that gives his vocals extra room to make their mark while the exquisite live drums from Joris Feiertag keep you moving.
Will Saul, Fink & James Alexander Bright's 'Paradise Ave EP' arrives digitally and on 12” the 7th May
A collaborative project bringing together multi-instrumentalist James Alexander Bright — whose recent collaborations with Groove Armada's Tom Findlay and Girls Of The Internet were superb — and the two men behind AUS MUSIC. James Alexander Bright is apparently an artist Will Saul met during his time as an A&R at !K7. The downtempo "Slo-Mo Life" appears in its original version plus a take by SIDESHOW, another of Will Saul's projects, while the broken-stepping "Blue" comes in its original form along with a James Alexander Bright remix. (Original Japanese text by Saito)