Ana Roxanne and DJ Python wind through a gauzy ode to a sticky New York summertime.
Initially developed in New York, tape-recorded in Los Angeles and completed back in NYC, the self-titled launching of Natural Wonder Beauty Concept sounds simply as much like a record about driving around both cities as it does of a progressing brand-new relationship inbetween Ana Roxanne and Brian Piñeyro. Meeting in New York throughout the winterseason of 2020, the duo got to understand each other throughout long automobile trips tracing the borders of a city under lockdown, listening to tunes and decompressing from their particular experiences of launching cherished albums, Because Of A Flower and Mas Amable, throughout a time in which no one might get out to see them play. Their Times Square Transmissions session serves as a beautiful artefact of this duration, throughout which the set move through a choice of modern-day classical and lovelorn pop music.
Fitting, then, that the buddies turn their attention to a sticky New York summertime for their Fact mix, a gauzy series of gossamer electronicdevices, sunlit instrumentals and golden hour somnambulance, like a warm breeze rustling at the thin drape of a high-rise apartmentorcondo. “During this warm summerseason, you lastly get house, sweat on your skin,” they state of the mix. “The breeze from the fan cools your body as you toss yourself onto the bed. A smile throughout your face as you read a text message from your sweetie.”
Expanding the soundscape from which the Transmissions mix and their album emerge, they wind through avant-pop experiments, ’90s shoegaze, ’00s indie, Instagram corridos, all-ages bedtime jams, Harry Fraud’s forever underrated, Dexter Wansel-sampling, ‘Bird On A Wire’ beat and, probably, Dizzee Rascal’s finest critical. It’s like listening to your finest buddy playing music at the afters through your bedroom wall, or of an unscripted playlist made in the earlymorning light on the method house from the club. Like their Natural Wonder Beauty Concept launching, Ana Roxanne and Brian Piñeyro capture completely the noise of sharing tunes with goodfriends.
You can discover DJ Python on Instagram and Bandcamp. You can discover Ana Roxanne on Instagram and Bandcamp.
Tracklist:
Sydney Spann – ‘Untitled No. 1’
Northern Picture Library – ‘Into The Ether’
Elusin – ‘Godsend’
Cash Bently – ‘Loco Sin Ti’
Chris Isaak – ‘Can’t Do A Thing To Stop Me’
Harry Fraud – ‘Bird On A Wire’
The Pudding Club – ‘River Dream’
Alsace Lorraine – ‘You Are Like Charles Lindberg To Me’
Beethoven – ‘Piano Sonata No. 8’
Blossom Dearie – ‘Now At Last’
Olivia Rodrigo – ‘Vampire (Edit)’
Dizzee Rascal – ‘Brand New Day’ (Instrumental)
Star – ‘The History Of Elephants’
Breathe – ‘Hands To Heaven’
Smashing Pumpkins – ‘Shame’
Bowery Electric – ‘Empty Words’
Low – ‘Laser Beam’
Alsace Lorraine – ‘Summer Days At Home’
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