Beatport: www.beatport.com/track/strides-ma…r-remix/11637940
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/gb/album/spring-…-made/1453119466
Traxsource: www.traxsource.com/title/1101676/s…ty-strides-made
Spotify: open.spotify.com/album/1sgUjoaLL7NbrAOyuAidUe
Juno Download: www.junodownload.com/products/josia…track_number=4

Josiah Fontenot is a fresh-faced entity making waves in the great state of Texas. Josiah has a pronounced skill for extracting iconic underground sounds spanning decades and applying them to a masterful story-telling process. Subplot Recordings is excited to feature Josiah in this dual track musical selection with remix duties by a peculiar jack-master, Nathan Stewart (Headset, Kolour, and Lick Samba) and Harmonious Discord label head PointBender (Guidance, Thoughtless).

‘Spring Bounty’ enters with a light and aired feel. Brisk but spacious pads layer together to form a rich house music foundation which could carry the whole song, but Josiah starts driving into edgier territory with interplaying synth plucks which dance around edgy arpeggios. Josiah straddles the lines of jazz and rudimentary techno devices. Nathan’s mix provides a proper house re-rinse with acoustic drum accents and an upgraded percussive approach. Flashes of funk and flutters of acoustic piano give this selection space to grow and evolve in new ways from the original. The other side of the coin gives us ‘Strides Made’ an amalgam of the undeniable progress Josiah is making in defining his sound. Strides Made is heavy and lumbering, the percussion and bass looking for every opportunity to fill the spectrum. Subtle off-tuning and melodic reprises lumber the selection ever forward as synth construction plays lightly above. Rounding out this release on Subplot is label frequent, PointBender. PointBender strips away the safe portions of this selection to offer a stripped-down deeper dive with tinges of acid, rock and roll, and techno. Let this project help you announce your embrace of spring while keeping one ear in the frost.