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Release Date: 15th October 2021

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“There shouldn't have been a debut album on Anjunabeats, gardenstate shouldn’t have existed, and we should have stuck to our normal day job. This album is to everyone out there who has been told that ‘you can’t do it’.”

Be it through passion, determination, or just sheer stubbornness, gardenstate continues to bloom. A transatlantic labour of love from superproducer Marcus Schössow and club promoter Matt Felner, their debut album ‘Inspirations’ is out now on Above & Beyond’s Anjunabeats imprint.

At the heart of Sweden’s decadelong domination of club music in the 2010s, Marcus’ fifteenyearlong career boasts a smörgårdsbord of styles. You’ve got electro with ‘Swedish Beatballs’, the mainstage energy of ‘Reverie’ and ‘Ulysses’, and the driving progressive of ‘London / 1985’. Few artists have record sleeves from Axtone, Armada, Size, Spinnin’ and Anjunadeep in their catalogue. Heavily invested in the early 2010’s big room sound, he was a permanent feature in the sets of Swedish House Mafia and Knife Party.

New Jersey native Matt Felner gave up his bluecollar job to follow his passion for electronic music. A respected promoter and performer, he’s brought emerging artists to the clubs of New York and the East Coast. In 2008, he toured Marcus Schössow and they became close friends.

Making music on their own terms, the gardenstate sound is a melting pot of ‘90s trance nostalgia, brooding melodic techno, peaktime breaks and poignant songwriting. Few acts can worm their way into the DJ sets of Oliver Heldens, Kölsch, Cristoph, CamelPhat, Tiësto, Lane 8 and Above & Beyond at the same time.

Releases on Joris Voorn’s Spectrum Records and Yotto’s Odd One Out have nurtured an underground following, while reworks of A&B and Gabriel & Dresden have introduced them to the trance and progressive crowd.

Opening track ‘Aurora’, coproduced with Paavo from Above & Beyond and featuring vocals from Nandini Srikar, is a love letter to the lifeaffirming experience Marcus had playing in India. Paavo’s studio was also the birthplace for ‘Revival’, a collaboration with Gabriel & Dresden, Andy Moor and PROFF, while long time friends SØNIN and BLR (Leon Bolier) join Marcus and Matt for ‘Koski’.

‘Répondezmoi’, a dance floor reworking of Switzerland’s 2020 Eurovision entry, partners Marcus and Matt with Gjon’s Tears, who finished third in this year’s competition.

There’s a heavy breaks influence across the album, including ‘1995’, and BBC Radio 1endorsed ‘Take Me There’ with GVN, Anjunabeats 700th catalogue release.

gardenstate’s debut album ‘Inspirations’ is out now on Anjunabeats, and is available to buy now on special edition 2x12” coloured vinyl from the Anjuna Music Store. gardenstate are touring the U.K., U.S.A. and India this year, with headline shows at London’s The Cause, Miami’s Treehouse and more lined up. Tickets for all dates are on sale now (https://gardenstatemusic.net)

Tracklist:

00:00 1. gardenstate Dark Waters
04:33 2. gardenstate & Nandini Srikar Aurora
10:19 3. gardenstate & GVN Take Me There
13:38 4. gardenstate 1995
17:07 5. gardenstate & KhoMha She Was Looking Into The Sun
21:05 6. gardenstate & Gjon’s Tears Répondezmoi
24:48 7. gardenstate Off The Grid
29:25 8. gardenstate, Gabriel & Dresden, Andy Moor & PROFF feat. Mokka Revival
33:17 9. gardenstate Alma
37:02 10. gardenstate, SØNIN & BLR Koski
40:41 11. gardenstate By Your Side
44:37 12. gardenstate Sisu
49:13 13. gardenstate 5AM
52:55 14. gardenstate Dusted
57:41 15. gardenstate & Bien The Best Part
01:01:50 16. gardenstate Surreal (album edit)

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