PREMIERE: Private Guy - Zipperworld [Kajunga Records]

We have some new heat from Kajunga Records co-founder Private Guy ready to stream. Liquid Sun, The Minneapolis-based producer and ceramicist’s debut EP, drops digitally and on wax next week. Pre-orders are available via Kajunga’s Bandcamp.

“Zipperworld” is a slow burn, like that last log on the final bonfire of the season. Dynamic, locked in, wavy, and versatile, Liquid Sun's B1 has a long shelf life. Alex says his ideal deployment of the track comes early in the day and under the sun. He sees it being played when you're “getting ready to get down, afternoon style, sort of a beach party...I can definitely see it in a spacey house sort of setting...it feels very much like bringing you on an adventure.” As a long and cold winter begins to set in, we hope we’ll get to hear it played out long before we make it back to the beach.

Armed with a pair of machines from Roland’s Boutique line, Alex utilizes a tuned-in hi-hat and a dialed in snare via a TR-08. The potent bassline and ethereal melody come courtesy of an SH-01A. “That thing is a beast in the studio...it really helped me find and identify the sound I was looking for.”

Liquid Sun has been in the works for a minute. “It took some marinating for the ideas to come forth. I think with every song you’re kind of seeing something a little different. There’s a kind of melancholy side to my work, where it can be a little more uplifting and soulful, that I think really comes across with the tracks in this album...when putting them together, we kind of realized that it was saying something together, becoming greater than the sum of its parts.”

Buy the record here, and follow Private Guy on SoundCloud.