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A1 Will Saul ‘Submerge’
A2 Will Saul ’Room 9’
B1 Will Saul ‘One For Rex’
B2 Will Saul ‘My Left Sock’


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Will Saul is a key figure in UK dance music. Approaching his twentieth anniversary as a DJ, producer and label founder, Saul has helped break the career of key artists such as Leon Vynehall, Midland and Dusky via his Aus Music label, has himself played some of the world’s finest nightclubs and contributed to !K7’s storied ‘DJ Kicks’ mix series, which he also curates.

Finally returning to the production fold himself with his first full-length album in thirteen years, ‘Open Too Close’ is a condensed trip through the influences, discovery and sense of history that have helped shape his career and drive a forward-facing, unblinking passion for new music. The record’s concept reflects Will’s enormous skill and knowledge as a DJ, and as it’s title suggests, “"represents what I play in a club if an 8 hour set was condensed into 10 tracks.”

Having held residencies and made regular appearances at some of the world’s finest clubs including The End and Fabric in London, Panorama Bar in Berlin, Trouw in Amsterdam and Robert Johnson in Offenbach, Saul is uniquely qualified but this refreshingly straightforward approach. Eschewing the lingering, almost cliched expectations for a dance artist to create an album “that sounds good at home, as well as in the club”, ‘Open Too Close’ instead draws on the timeless futurism at the heart of the music that drew Saul into electronic music culture. Simply put, futuristic, melancholic sci-fi soundscapes meets stripped back raw sample driven house music, all executed with the precision and panache of an artist who truly understands how to move a dancefloor.


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A1 Will Saul ‘Openings’
A2 Will Saul ’Pingalatu’
B1 Will Saul ‘Moorings’
B2 Will Saul ‘Visions’

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Will Saul is a key figure in UK dance music. Approaching his twentieth anniversary as a DJ, producer and label founder, Saul has helped break the career of key artists such as Leon Vynehall, Midland and Dusky via his Aus Music label, has himself played some of the world’s finest nightclubs and contributed to !K7’s storied ‘DJ Kicks’ mix series, which he also curates.

Finally returning to the production fold himself with his first full-length album in thirteen years, ‘Open Too Close’ is a condensed trip through the influences, discovery and sense of history that have helped shape his career and drive a forward-facing, unblinking passion for new music. The record’s concept reflects Will’s enormous skill and knowledge as a DJ, and as it’s title suggests, “"represents what I play in a club if an 8 hour set was condensed into 10 tracks.”

Having held residencies and made regular appearances at some of the world’s finest clubs including The End and Fabric in London, Panorama Bar in Berlin, Trouw in Amsterdam and Robert Johnson in Offenbach, Saul is uniquely qualified but this refreshingly straightforward approach. Eschewing the lingering, almost cliched expectations for a dance artist to create an album “that sounds good at home, as well as in the club”, ‘Open Too Close’ instead draws on the timeless futurism at the heart of the music that drew Saul into electronic music culture. Simply put, futuristic, melancholic sci-fi soundscapes meets stripped back raw sample driven house music, all executed with the precision and panache of an artist who truly understands how to move a dancefloor.

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A1 Will Saul ‘Wobbly’
A2 Will Saul ’Slide’
B1 Will Saul ‘Come Together’
B2 Will Saul ‘Start Again’



Will's returns to AUS following his 'By Your Side' EP which saw support from luminaries such as Sasha, Dixon & Gerd Janson. The 'Arps & Early Starts' sees Will take things deeper, trippier and once again in another direction, continuing to move things forward. This is his third release in the past six months and sees the AUS label head enjoying the studio and DJing more than ever, he's on the road extensively over the coming months - visiting the legendary Rex in Paris, London's Printworks, Barcelona's Nitsa, Elsewhere in NYC and putting on his own ADE party alongside Jeremy Underground, Bradley Zero to name a few.







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A1 Will Saul Bugs
B1 Will Saul The Map Room
B2 Will Saul Bugs (Matt Karmill remix)


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'Bugs' is AUS label owner Will Saul's first solo EP in over 4 years and follows his inaugural release on new Aus compilation series, Inside Out. Here's Will on the A side.... 'Bugs' is inspired as much by dancing at Plastic People/Co-op to the Bugz In The Attic as is it is by Carl Craig's Innerzone Orchestra track Bugs In The Bass Bin. Hopefully I bring my own twist to these key influences...... 'The Map Room' tumbles with big, swinging drums as a fervid sense of tension burns throughout before Matt Karmill takes 'Bugs' off on a linear dubbed out excursion to complete the package....

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Barcode: 4012957146409 Release Date: 30.06.2014
Tracklist A1 Pedal Power B1 Valhalla
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Up next for Aus is label head Will Saul. Following his vocal heavy collaboration album as CLOSE for !K7 last year this 12" see's Will venture back to the dance floor for some light relief. With anticipation for the release of his DJ-Kicks mix in June growing, he lets these two tracks loose to tide listeners over. The high-octane "Pedal Power", which also features in his DJ-Kicks mix, and the weighty but spacious "Valhalla". Both tracks were born out of a number of live jams on a small outboard setup with a laptop used only to record. A Jomox Xbase 999 drum machine triggering a Moog Minitaur for bass, all running through a number of highly tweak-able pedals and outboard fx units with a Roland Juno for pads. It was a refreshing low maintenance change for Will following the CLOSE album and there will be a few more 12"s of this ilk released over the coming months. This summer sees Will embark on an extensive world tour to promote his DJ Kicks album and look out for another CLOSE EP at the end of August which features 3 collaborative tracks with Second Storey (Houndstooth) and vocalist Kid A with an extra special remix from Seven Davis Junior
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For the final of the Simple Sounds EP, we bring in the disco courtesy of two of Will’s favourite fellow artists. Putsch 79 take Will’s album cut ‘Speak & Spell’ deeper and darker but maintain Will’s original chord progression. The undulating dark disco mix slowly evolves into a fabulous euphoric crescendo that’s already proving to be irresistible to our feet. On the flip, Northern lads 2020 Soundsystem, led by Ralph Lawson and Dubble D, re-interpret Will’s underground classic Pause in their signature live style. Not to be missed is that p-funk keyboard solo in the last quarter! Putsch 79 are two young Finnish freaks, rocking shit on Clone Records and beyond. They're all about warm grooving disco beats, throbbing basslines and smooth chords with influences from techno and house – a match made in heaven for us! 2020 Soundsystem are bloody good live and you should check them out at one of Europe’s fine discoteques. More

On this EP is Will and Tam Cooper’s exclusive new track ‘Out There’ and the Gui Boratto remix of their ‘Sequential Circus’. Out There features an arppegiated chord sequence that drives the track to the breakdown, where the melody switches from soulful to dirty ol’ euphoric. The bassline playfully moves around with the chords while sweeping old school strings take us home. It features an
unwitting vocal performance from one of Will’s favorite producers.... Sequential Circus (Gui Borrato remix) Taking just one of Will’s original chords and a shard of the melody Gui builds one of his trademark pulsating, futuristic grooves before opening out the full melody to create an epic dancefloor moment. Brazillian Gui Boratto is an architect, musician, composer and prolific producer. From 2005 he dedicated himself to his own productions and compositions. He came to the attention of the wider electronic community through his releases on Kompakt, where he released his stunning debut album ‘Chromophobia’ to general critical acclaim that saw him wowing the best clubs of the world with his colourful live performances.

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Will Saul presents ‘Simple Sounds’, a double CD that serves as an insight into where both of his influential labels stand in 2007, five years after Simple’s creation. Will has gained an admirable reputation over the last few years as not only a show-stealing DJ, but also a talented A&R and producer. His previous albums for the label include ‘Simple One’, the first label compilation that elegantly encapsulated the sound of Simple, and his critically acclaimed debut album ‘Space Between’, a soulful and melodic journey geared towards home listening rather than the dancefloor. He is resident at The End in London and Weekend in Berlin, and most recently has remixed for Freerange, Initial Cuts, Fresh Meat and Phonique’s summer anthem ‘Bang’ on Dessous. Acting as A&R, artist and DJ for the project, his intention is to blur the distinction between the traditional artist LP and DJ mix. Will contributes new and exclusive tracks, selects remixers to work on some of his older material and sequences a mix that captures the sound of both of his labels, Simple and Aus. CD 1 exhibits Will as an artist and A&R. Influential artists such as Partial Arts, Gui Boratto, 2020Soundsystem and Wahoo (Dixon from Innervisions) are invited to reinterpret tracks from the catalogue and Will has produced four new tracks for the project. On opener ‘3000 AD’ a soothing synth breeze unveils space soon occupied by spasmodic, shifting percussion and liquid bass. ‘Kitt’s muted guitar strides through a wilderness of ghostly echoes and metallic glitches. The Partial Arts remix of Will & Lee Jones ‘Hug The Scary’ plunges into the deep, as futurist frequencies radiate and escalate into a stringed choral crescendo. Wahoo’s take on Will’s sublime ‘Mbira’ offers a densely layered latin rhythm with melodies that hark back to the early days of Detroit, before Sideshow sends ‘Sequential Circus’ floating off on a cloud of dub. ‘Cubrika’ continues with themes of space and compression, opening with epic synth lines and driven to its climax by laser pulses and bubbling bass. ‘Out There’ peaks with euphoric arpeggio lines, before Gui Boratto dives headlong into deep melodic techno with his fresh rework of ‘Sequential Circus’. Will’s bumping remix of Chicken Lips ‘Motion Sickness’ is low riding electronic house, that leads us 20:20 Soundsystem’s closing take on ‘Pause’, which slathers the original with electric funk. All the tracks have been lovingly re-edited by Will with the aim of ensuring a better home listen.On CD 2, contrast brings definition, and this mix serves to make it clear that Aus is the organic to Simple’s electronic; two polar opposites seamlessly reconciled by Will’s careful track sequencing – a fitting reflection of his successful running of both labels. Warm, spacious, immersive and with loose traces of disco, soon the groove gets jacked and moves from Aus, closer to Simple territory. The CD opens with Aus Music cuts from Lee Jones’ solo work as well as in his alter ego as part of Berlin bliss troupe My My. Sideshow then weighs in with two tracks, both taking on disco from his unique perspective, while Phonique, Jimpster and Spirit Catcher transport us back to the realm of Simple electronics over the past 5 years with radical interpretations of Simple mainstays. Canadian wunderkind Mathew Jonson and deep master John Tejada both dissect Sideshow, Will Saul revises Content, Sebo K & Metro take a turn then Motorcitysoul and Alexkid close the curtains on a real high.Further to the CD, 3 vinyl EPs will be released over the Autumn with the exclusive tracks and remixes commissioned for Simple Sounds plus a ‘vinyl only’ Putsch 79 rework of ‘Speak & Spell’. The Simple Sounds tour commences at the end of the summer – heading first to Bestival then on to Brazil and back across Europe visiting Sankeys, Basics, Watergate and a host of other great spots all the way to Russia.



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