The Hour Will Be Blue, the Theory Will Be Grounded

Tomorrow, Henning Baer is returning to BULK, and this time, he brought along a British-born, Berlin-based talent: Blue Hour. While his back-catalogue is still relatively small, every release is worth owning. Twice.

Since there’s really no reason to introduce Henning Baer any further (we think he did that perfectly himself behind the decks), this will focus on what you can expect from Blue Hour.

His sound combines the lush, but melanchonic synth pads reminiscent of Sandwell District with a running, mechanistic groove a la Staffan Linzatti, carefully restraining any use of shuffle in the drum programming to avoid ending up in the cheese-department.

- A place you often find yourself when browsing for melody and melancholy.

When need be, the shuffle is there, on top of the UK-inspired broken beats:

It is simply amazing that something can sound so warm and so cold at the same time. We’re certain the Box will sound the same, but only feel warm. Very warm.