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WYS!: Exclusively Download Ryan O Gorman's House Project, Soulade's 'Saves The Day'

Simply put, ahead of Ryan O Gorman's set at WetYourSelf this Sunday coming, he's kindly offered the chaps a free download from his Soulade project. But sometimes, life isn't that simple, as O Gorman himself details in the text he sent through alongside the track: "There are a few reasons I produce under secret aliases. Having seen the scene from various angles (as a booker, DJ, promoter, punter, label manager and artist) I began to realise that a large proportion of our scene is built on shaky ground or, to be blunt, bullshit PR nonsense. Aspiring DJs recognise that they need releases to get bookings so they hire an engineer and "produce" a track with little or no production experience or worse still, they have the music ghost written for them. Then based on their alliance to a hyped label/artist or the profile of their PR agency, their music reaches the masses via the music press. So in many cases you have this strange scenario where you are paying money to see acts who’re being booked on the basis of music they didn't make and what’s more they often can't actually DJ... “As my own peculiar and futile protest, I decided anonymity would distance me from this dirty charade. It would be the force that separates the persona from the music and allow my music to be judged on nothing more than its artistic content. I have been DJing since I was about fifteen, I have taken that so far that it has allowed me to play the best clubs across my respective London and Ibiza basis. I’ve never released a record in my own name but I can proudly say I am playing in fabric’s Room One for WetYourSelf this very weekend. “Somehow I managed to achieve this without playing the game, something that’s not easy to do these days. I studied music when I left school, analogue and then later digital. I make my own music and I do it because it makes me happy... happy on a very deep level, no other reason. My Soulade project is one facet of what I produce, it's the slightly fragmented house thing I do. The beauty of playing records is allows you to jump from one genre to another, as a producer people tend to see you as one thing and a sense of anonymity protects you from this. Seeing people Paul Woolford adopt multiple music personalities without anonymity has made me realise that you can have different musical aliases and those aliases can be accepted as separate entities. “So here it is; my house alias. You heard here first.” Download: Soulade - Saves The Day Ryan O Gorman plays WYS! this Sunday. Tickets/info here.
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