Whytwo describes the feeling of existing between these two extreme states, young & old, naive & experienced, primitive & advanced, and taking the role of a medium 'caught between worlds' whose task was to stitch together this generational fabric. At the same time that 'Ghost' was being created, Whytwo was looking after a young child and some of the drums on 'Ghost' are recordings of the child hitting things. In conversations with Whytwo, he describes how his Jazz musician Grandfather was the person responsible for first giving him music-making software, and whose clarinet features on some of the album tracks. All of these definitions relate, in some way, to the album now before us. Mirroring Whytwo's music, the album's title, 'Ghost', is richly layered word, meaning, in different places and at different times a memory of something or someone to disappear without communication to move quietly and quickly to secretly do work for another and, of course, a being caught between worlds.įrom the old English, 'Gast', meaning 'breath' or 'spirit', the word eventually transformed into 'Ghost' coming to describe "a slight suggestion, mere shadow or semblance". First coming to Blu Mar Ten's attention after entering their 2017 remix competition, Whytwo created a wildly different take on their track 'Titans', bending it into a skittering, menacing groove while somehow maintaining a playful edge.įast-forward a little and we've now arrived at Whytwo's debut LP, 'Ghost', an exhilarating and elasticated take on Drum & Bass that exists in the hinterland between elation, melancholy and longing. A talented multi-instrumentalist and performer with an extraordinarily broad range. Whytwo is a young, enigmatic artist from Scotland, UK. "Don’t be afraid, old son, it’s only me, though not as I’ve appeared before, on the battlements of your signature, or margin of a book you can’t throw out" ~ Michael Donaghy
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