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CHET FAKER & MARCUS MARR share new track, ‘Birthday Card’ .. EP ‘Work’ out December 4th on Detail Records

November 29, 2015
Willy Ward

Willy Ward

 

MARCUS MARR & CHET FAKER

Birthday Card

Debuted on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 Show
EP ‘Work’ out December 4th on Detail Records

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Chet Faker and South London-based producer Marcus Marr unveil new track ‘Birthday Card’, taken from their collaborative 4-track EP ‘Work’, out December 4 via Faker’s own label, Detail Records. ‘Birthday Card’ enjoyed its first play on Annie Mac’s BBC Radio 1 show on Tuesday and is available digitally today, and can be heard via Soundcloud here:


Over the past few years, a musical admiration between Chet Faker and Marcus Marr has grown, which culminated in a four-day sojourn in Marr’s South London studio where the pair wrote ‘Work’.

DJ Marcus Marr has been releasing acclaimed records via DFA Records over the last few years, including “Brown Sauce,” named in Pitchfork’s Tracks earlier this year, and “The Music,” named one of the “Best Dance Tracks of 2013” by SPIN. A regular at Berlin’s famed nightclub Berghain/Panorama Bar, the lifelong music obsessive’s first encounters with dance music were acid house records which augmented his vinyl collection of rock and soul, and attending all night parties under Brixton’s St Matthews Church. Traveling to the south of England to watch DJ Harvey play a lengthy set, he saw the kind of power a DJ can wield over a willing crowd.

An artist of considerable range, Chet Faker writes, performs and records all of his own music, giving it a warm, intimate feel with a solid groove structure. His critically acclaimed album Built On Glass was released in the spring of 2014, and was widely welcomed by music fans internationally. He’s gone on to perform sold out shows on five continents including two nights at Sydney’s Opera House, three nights at New York’s Terminal 5 and stand-out performances at Coachella, Lollapalooza, Primavera and Glastonbury.

And how does a relationship between a London-based DJ and Brooklyn-based Australian producer blossom? Twitter, obviously. Notes Marr, “Nick posted my song on Twitter. I messaged him and said thanks and a conversation started – all nerdy stuff about recording processes. Pretty soon we started exchanging song ideas in voice memos. He then suggested maybe we try and do something together.”

On the recording process, Marr adds “It was a real thrill as the songs came together. As far as working out lyrics and music the guy is super-talented. He writes all his lyrics in his black book and he loves his pen. Actually, Nick, I was rummaging through a drawer in my studio the other day and I found your special pen – do you want it back, mate?”

 

WORK – TRACK LISTING

01 – Birthday Card
02 – The Trouble With Us
03 – Learning For Your Love
04 – Killing Jar

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