Music for the Uninvited
album by Leon Vynehall
Music for the Uninvited is an extended play by Brighton-based house producer Leon Vynehall. The EP is a seven-track set influenced from his experience listening to his mother's cassettes while being driven to school. It was released on the label 3024 in 2014 to a positive critical reception, ending up on numerous year-end lists in publications including Fact, Gorilla vs. Bear, NPR Music, Pitchfork Media, XLR8R and The Washington Post.
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The first music Leon Vynehall ever listened to was cassettes put together by his mother and her friends while he was driven to school. The cassettes consisted of old funk, early dance music and hip-hop, mainly from British musician, DJ and producer Aim. One of the tracks he remembered the most fondly of was called "Demonique", which included a snippet from the 1978 horror film Halloween, as well as many bells: "At the time thinking how the hell he got something from the movie onto a track while making it sound naturally part of the track, it baffled me. I wanted to record it to cassette, hearing the hiss. Tape has a really nice way of rounding off all the frequencies – there's a natural compression that I love, and I wanted to put it as part of a piece of work."
Vynehall discussed the title of Music for the Uninvited in a 2015 interview: "[It's] a nod to disco, as well as voguing and the origin of house music. I love the scene, and the whole idea of it.
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