INTRODUCING… PARIAH

Music | jon.ramsay | August 10, 2010

We like producers that hold down full-time jobs or studies. Not because of any snooty aversion to success or misguided notions about the creative pitfalls of ’selling out’, but simply because we love the commitment: guys and girls that work flat out 9 to 5 in the office or library then flat out 7 to 3 in the bedroom studio, strictly for love of the music.

22 year-old Arthur Cayzer AKA Pariah is one such producer, although we’d be willing to place a sizeable bet on him being able to avoid the grim prospect of a ‘proper job’ once he graduates. London-based and specialising in the same kind of backstreet melancholia and alienation as Burial, the Scot released debut EP ‘Detroit Falls‘ on R&S records back in March, joining the likes of Aphex Twin, Juan Atkins, Kenny Larkin and Derrick May as graduates of this esteemed Belgian label.

The title track does a bang-up job of reworking a golden motown sample, but it’s the deliciously downbeat and reflective tone of ‘Orpheus‘ that has us drooling at the prospect of new EP ‘Safehouses‘, due later this month. Check out ‘Orpheus‘ and his fantastic reworking of The XX below…

MP3 PARIAH – ORPHEUS

MP3 THE XX – BASIC SPACE (PARIAH REMIX)

The guy is hot property at the moment, so there’s plenty more goodies out there to get stuck into. He recently had an enlightening little chat with FACT, and has also recorded an awesome promo mix for Fabric Live. You can stream this one below.

Pariah – FABRICLIVE Promo Mix by fabric

There are also a whole host of dates coming up, mostly UK but also a few detours to continental Europe. These are as follows:

13th August: Critical @ Fabric, London, UK

19th August: Vice @ The Old Blue Last, London, UK

17th September: Old Queen’s Head, London, UK

25th September: Been There Done That @ Sudpol, Lucerne, Switzerland

1st October: FACT @ Xoyo, London, UK

9th October: Nail The Cross Festival @ Goldsmiths Student Union, London, UK

19th October: Modulate @ The Wire, Leeds, UK

22nd October: Wigflex @ Stealth , Nottingham, UK

4th November: Kultuurkaffe, Brussels, Belgium

22nd November: Hit & Run @ Fac 251, Manchester, UK