Collins Skins

Vinyl Catalogue Number: SUBEX00074
Download Catalogue Number: SUBEX00075
General Release Date: 22/07/2022

’Skins’ unveils a fascinating, if slightly unnerving, crepuscular world. This is a land of slow motion, beautifully poised electro-ballads comprising vintage synths, drum machines and a scintillating cinematic palette of found sound.

Gary is an award-winning DJ (incl. Turnmills and Mixmag), having played extensively on the club circuit across Europe and Brazil since the mid 1990’s. He began experimenting with music production around 2005, as he became increasingly interested in making his own musical mark. This eventually led to a string of well-received releases on a variety of labels, including Giallo Disco, Spun Out Of Control, Dark Leader and Telefuture Records.

Technically speaking, Gary’s creative process combines a digital workstation and analogue hardware, intriguingly crafting soundscapes with a myriad of recorded matter:

“I like to create quite a layered mix, some sounds or noise are buried deep, barely perceptible but add to the ambience. I love to use recordings of real places, of real moments in time. On one track for example there’s a sample of me rattling an iron gate in the catacombs of Paris. On another, recorded on the Cliffs Of Moher here in Ireland, there's the sound of an electric fence being struck... more

releases July 22, 2022

Written, performed and produced by
Gary Collins

Artwork by Dan Seville and Gary Collins

Mastered by Antony Ryan at RedRedPaw