Listen to Adam Beyer & Julian Jeweil’s thrilling first collaboration ‘Loca’
The track features on 'Explorer Vol.1', Beyer's first album in over 20 years - out now
Adam Beyer’s hugely anticipated Explorer Vol.1 album is out now — his first longplayer in 23 years.
Another album standout is ‘Loca’, Beyer’s maiden collaboration with French stalwart Julian Jeweil.
Following the LP’s eponymous first single ‘Explorer’, which dropped in March, and the well-received ‘Hypnotic’, a collaboration with rising producer HNTR feat. Kyozo, the highlights have been coming thick and fast.
Most recently, Beyer delivered his first BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix since 2006, linked with Layton Giordani for the divine ‘Alto’, and minted his first collaboration with Chris Avantgarde with the acclaimed widescreen production ‘Desolate Lands’.
The latest album focus track, ‘Loca’, sees Beyer teaming up with French mainstay Julian Jeweil for the very first time. The track brims with old skool energy, while tapping into the punchy Drumcode sound that defined the label throughout the 2010s — a classic heads-down techno roller that superbly contrasts some of the album’s more crossover moments.
“Julien sent me a track and asked if I wanted to jump on it. I reworked it into something that throws back to the older, bigger drum kit sounds from 5–8 years ago.
It’s a drum workout with real mixability, energy, and a screaming vocal sample that gives it character.
Reminds me of early Laurent Garnier stuff.”
– Adam Beyer
