Should Have Gone Home - Jamie Jones

Should Have Gone Home

Jamie Jones [Freak N Chic]

#15 in this month's The 20

• Written by: Terry Church
• Filed under: The 20: freak n chic jamie jones marc houle

“It’s not based on any specific night, but believe me I have been at countless parties knowing that I should have left ages ago, but just couldn’t bring myself to go,” says London-based techno producer and DJ Jamie Jones, about his new EP ‘Should Have Gone Home’.

“I think any dedicated party goer can relate to that.”

Over the last two years Jamie Jones has gone from a nobody spinning occasional sets at daytime afterparties in east London, to a Damian Lazarus-supported rising star with a slew of big hitting tracks under his belt.

His music has been on Cocoon Recordings, Poker Flat and Freak N’Chic and British dance bible Mixmag recently named him as one of the hottest new producers in London.

Jamie however is still very much grounded.

“I’m just trying to do my thing and take everything as it comes” he tells Beatportal.

“I’m happy and lucky to be working doing something I love for a living, so I’m just grateful for that more than anything.”

Whilst most of today’s newest producers are solely software based, Jamie’s studio is packed full of analogue machines and synths.

“I have a Roland TR-808, TR-6O6, SH101, Juno 106, Korg MX1, Micro Korg, Micro Korg X, Korg Radius, Nord Lead 2X, and the newest and best addition which my girlfriend just brought back from America, a Moog Voyager,” reveals Jamie proudly.

“I use all these with Logic Pro 7 and Ableton Live 7.”

‘Should Have Gone Home’ is a deep tech house bubbler featuring eerie high synths and a warbling bassline, whilst ‘Can’t Believe I’m Still Here’ features a hypnotic rising synth that evolves and flows.

How did Jamie make the cool synth in ‘Can’t Believe I’m Still Here’?

“I used a pattern programmed into the Roland 606 to trigger the Arpeggio on the SH101,” he says.

And both ‘Can’t Believe I’m Still Here’ and ‘Should Have Gone Home’ feature pitched down vocals.

“I mean, I don’t know why anyone else does it, but I used my own voice for both tracks, and like a lot of people I hate the sound of my own voice, so I changed it,” says Jamie.

“Some people pitch up which I’m not into - this time I pitched it down.

“This has been going on in records for 20 years though, I have so many old Chicago jack house records with pitched down vocals and that’s where the inspiration for this EP came from.

“Not from any current minimal records that I’m not in to.”

Keep an eye on this rising star of London.

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