The name Ross From Friends is now all but synonymous with the recent lo-fi house trend, making it as good a time as any for the producer to turn out a new EP. The Outsiders is due out on Magicwire at the end of the month, but a minimix of the effort’s tracklist is available in the meantime.
Each of the six clips comprising the minimix offers a different application of the Ross From Friends (real name Felix Weatherall) sound. Albeit separate arrangements, all result from the same stripped-down approach to sound design. Quaint melodies, dated acoustics, and a “simpler time” sensibility make a tongue-in-cheek statement not unlike the artist’s stage name itself.
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In 2017, the lo-fi house genre has emerged as an answer to the overproduced soundscapes common to modern electronic music. Artists like DJ Seinfeld, DJ Boring and Sega Bodega romanticize the sonic flaws of classic dance tracks, favoring antiquated production methods as a means of incorporating a subtle hiss and crackle into each soundscape.
In keeping with this aesthetic, Ross From Friends chose the name for his upcoming EP as homage to a 1967 S. E. Hinton novel that was adapted for the screen in the ’80s by Francis Ford Coppola. A cryptic blurb accompanying the minimix on SoundCloud contains two quotes from the novel. The more notable of the two is “Stay gold, Ponyboy,” which itself originated in a Robert Frost poem also of the EP’s namesake.
The Outsiders by Ross From Friends arrives by way of Magicwire July 28th.
Source: Resident Advisor
