Romare Essentials

Romare Essentials

Archie Fairhurst makes dance music sound like primal rites. His dreamlike, house-inspired electronic compositions sit between minimalism and psychedelic repetition, sometimes sounding like the soundtrack to a futuristic city and sometimes an echo of a primitive past. Having started as a drummer and guitarist in London, by 2012 he was putting out releases rooted in Afrocentrism and inspired by the cool cubist artwork of Romare Bearden, from whom he took his stage name. Since then he’s been adding familiar funk and disco samples to his own eclectic instrumental ideas, creating an engrossing sense of woozy euphoria.

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