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  • Free Music Monday: 06/06/2011

    Pete Lawrie A Little Darker MixtapeI interviewed Pete Lawrie last week and was intrigued to hear about his genre hopping antics and his love of sample based music.

    Later, I found some remixes of Pete’s that I really liked, then I found this.  Pete’s ‘A Darker Light Mixtape’.

    On his soundcloud page, Pete explains about the mixtape..

    ‘When I started writing for A Little Brighter, my debut album, I made a conscious decision to try and reign in my tendency to genre hop. I wanted to make a record as a full body of work. To maybe segue the songs with instrumentals, samples. A feeling of something moving, growing. As time went on, this became difficult. My voice was changing, maturing. Songs from years passed began rearing their heads and the result is more of a collection of songs. Songs that I am very proud of writing, but with more of a jukebox feel than my original vision. A Little Darker is my attempt to finish what I started.’

    A Little Darker by petelawrie

    Pete Lawrie plays the Body & Soul Festival which takes place in Ballinlough Castle on June 18th/19th.

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  • Interview with Pete Lawrie

    Welshman, Pete Lawrie has just released his debut album ‘A Little Brighter’ and will be in Ireland to play the Body & Soul Festival on June 18/19. I caught up with Pete to chat about to chat about his new album, camper vans and golf!

    You come from a musical background, your parents are musicians, playing with The Liverpool Philharmonic and your Grandad played on the Beatles’ Strawberry Fields Forever. Did that influence or sway you in any way as to what path life would take?

    ‘Yeah, in the sense that I was surrounded by music from an early age and there was instruments around. I certainly wasn’t pushed into it. It was amazing to me. I used to go watch my parents rehearse in the orchestra every Saturday, which was amazing cos you just sit in an empty auditorium with a full orchestra. My first present was a trumpet from my Grandad, which amazingly, today, I’ve just put my trumpet in the bath. I haven’t played it in so many years that it seized up and my flatmate just asked if I’d play trumpet on a track he’s playing. So I just got it out today, which is a strange coincidence.

    I was just surrounded my music and instruments so I guess it did influence me but my sister isn’t a musician so it certainly wasn’t like we were told to do it.’

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