DJ Plead - Please DJ Plead
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A lot can happen in a few years. For DJ Plead's Jarred Beeler that means making a whole new album, throwing it away, then releasing something else entrely. Gleaned from a folder of 120 demos and sketches made between 2023 and 2025, Please is a cool composite of the Lebanese-Australian producer's distinctive musical pale`e blending the techno, house, and dub of the club with the dabke, mijwiz, and shaabi keys of a Levantne dancing circle.
Please follows 2020's Relentless Trills. Dropped as part of Boomkat's Documenting Sound series, that release was a revelation that went beyond the high-intensity hard-drum bangers dropped via Livity Sound, Nervous Horizon, and his own Sumac label into a more ambient spray of his trademark percussion and serpentine maqam melodies. Please is an even more intimate proposition, with its cover featuring a cropped shot of Beeler holding a cup of coffee in one hand, belongings in the other. Phone, keys, pills, Tiger Balm. It's a deeply personal depiction of the everyday that echoes the unhurried emotional resonance of the album's track listing. A mournful ambient follows the embellished trundle of "Seven Eight, Too Late" as it's haunted by downtempo atmospherics. The gently grooved piano, guitar, and bass of closer "Traffic" cascade with the organic delay and decay of passing space and time. "I'm not fully comfortable releasing these tracks. I do feel vulnerable," says Beeler, who credits Smalltown Supersound label boss Joakim Haugland as vital to realizing Please. "I doubt that without him pulling them out of the folder those demos would ever have been heard by anyone." But aren't we lucky he did? The album's sweltering keyboard improvisations on highlights like "Right On Time," "Pa700," and "Open Era," are set to a melt of wavering found sounds and microtonal runs. "Some of the songs are also just me playing the keyboard on top of a loop I've made. “There's not much production or polish to hide behind," explains Beeler. "Those tracks in particular feel quite raw." These tender steps outside of Beeler's aesthetic comfort zone of control and function toward unfiltered exposure produce an exciting tension. Please expertly approaches that obscure point between the detached and the sentimental, where the mundane, the specific, and the lightly absurd meet the deeply felt and genuinely moving.
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