ARTISTS INCLUDING GUISEPPE OTTAVIANI, MATT FAX, HEL:SLØWED AND FERRY HIMSELF GATHER TO REVISIT AND REPRINT HIS CONCEPTUALLY GROUNDBREAKING 4TH ARTIST ALBUM
On its 2017 debut, ‘Blueprint’ marked a changeup in how an electronic artist album could be approached. It moved from a singles-driven model, toward a unified, long-form work, built around musical transitions and narrative flow. In doing so, it retuned expectations of what the modern electronic album could be. And now, nine cycles later, ‘Blueprint’ is ready to reenter the electronic music space … as ‘Blueprint Reprinted’. Alongside Ferry himself, the Dutch pioneer has handpicked five contemporaries and six ‘Blueprint’ tracks for the ’Reprinted’ cadre to revisit.
Ferry opens the EP’s running order, bringing back what was, once upon a time the slow-mo drumatics of ‘Reanimate’. This time out though, courtesy of the V8 thrust of its production, refined synth lines, elevated tempo and singer Clairity’s cascading vocals, it’s been recalibrated for primetime play.
Next to the plate is Giuseppe Ottaviani’s Reprint, and if you’re expecting anything less than floor-thirsty from something titled ‘Drum Is The Weapon, best think again! His razor-sharp sequencing strips the track back to its functional core, before his relentless percussion locks-in the momentum, rebuilding it into a clubfloor firebrand.
That perfectly stacks the base for Turin’s Frankyeffe, who takes ‘Trust’ (once one of ‘Blueprint’s overture pieces) and upticks it into an end-of-the-night pressure cut. What was once cinematic and expansive is now refocused into a darker, more kinetic workout, where heavy low-end propulsion meets tightly wound tension.
At its halfway point, ’Reprinted’s scales tip onto more progressive terrain. In its original form, Ferry and HALIENE’s ‘Wherever You Are’ weighed heartbreak and hope in equal measure. Here, through filmic textures, Helsløwed restructures it, using tempered builds and bass palpitations, that deliver drops deep enough to dive into.
Matt Fax also places a stronger progressive emphasis on proceedings, this time though on the album’s title track. Now ‘Blueprint’ chugs and throbs with purpose, its core sonic motifs stretched across rolling lower-end grooves and reverb-heavy FX, which trade immediacy for an ether-soaked runtime.
Tying ’Reprinted’ off is Genix, who uses the march of housified drums to prime his take on ‘Eternity’. In no time at all though, his sub-melodies begin casting long atmospheric shadows across its production, before the track blooms to its hypnotically intense close. Leaning into the album’s legacy, ’Blueprint Reprinted’ is available from today from all good streaming and sales outlets. [blackhole.lnk.to/bpreprinted] It’s also available as a 2×12” physical release, along with an exclusive t-shirt drop via the Magik Muzik store here.
’Blueprint Reprinted’ Tracklist:
01. Ferry Corsten featuring Clairity – Reanimate (Ferry Corsten Extended Reprint) 02. Ferry Corsten – Drum’s a Weapon (Giuseppe Ottaviani Extended Reprint) 03. Ferry Corsten – Trust (Frankyeffe Extended Reprint) 04. Ferry Corsten x HALIENE – Wherever You Are (Hel:sløwed Extended Reprint) 05. Ferry Corsten – Blueprint (Matt Fax Extended Reprint) 06. Ferry Corsten – Eternity (Genix Extended Reprint)
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