Feel Up Vol 2

Description

It’s rare to see Nassau, Covid, and Grace Jones in the same sentence, yet they were all foundational to DJ Vadim’s brand new album, FEEL UP. If someone had said in 2019 that a year later the world would literally shut down due to a pandemic, very few would have believed it (well, except for those who have been expecting the apocalypse since 2000). But Covid did arrive, countries closed their borders, clubs shut down, and people found themselves in varying degrees of lockdown. As a very active international DJ, all of this was nothing short of Armageddon for Vadim. The skies were darkened, but rather than succumbing to inactivity and hibernation, DJ Vadim created his own tropical music festival within himself, an alternative universe that would share a kind of kinship with the recordings made at Compass Point Studios, orchestrated by Chris Blackwell for Grace Jones (1980-1982), James Brown, AC/DC, and many others… It was a melting pot of world-class musicians, blending reggae, pop, soul, and African rhythms and sounds… all creating one of the most influential albums of that period, and it is in this spirit that the inspiration and title for DJ Vadim’s new album, FEEL UP (literally ‘Feel Good’ / ‘Have strength, courage’), were born. Forty years after those sessions at Compass Point Studios, the same quest for discovery took place in Vadim’s studio in Barcelona. The desire for growth, self-discovery, and the creation of new sounds took hold. The dubcatcher with its 80s digital sounds emerged and returned with a wide variety of musical tapas. Inhale, exhale, FEEL UP is the soundtrack you didn't know you needed!