Kevin Saunderson is reviving his iconic e-Dancer alias for its full album in over 25 years.
The Detroit techno legend introduced at this time that the self-titled LP, written and recorded together with his son Dantiez, is due out on Might 21, marking the “first LP of completely authentic e-Dancer materials” since he debuted the challenge with Heavenly again in 1998.
Following a earlier studio collaboration on We All Transfer Collectively—the 2020 comeback album for Saunderson’s famed home group, Interior Metropolis—Saunderson and Dantiez relaunched e-Dancer as a duo in October 2024, bringing the challenge’s brooding however groove-laden Nineteen Nineties sound into the long run with the discharge of the brand new album’s lead single, “Melodica.”
One other new single, “Feelings,” is out at this time and can be a part of eight extra tracks on the forthcoming album, which Saunderson described on Instagram as “the sound of the Saunderson household taking it again to the uncooked.”
“Once I determined to make music, my path was to make individuals dance. It at all times shall be. Dance is happiness; it’s joyful,” Saunderson stated in an announcement. It’s a connection between completely different cultures, races and folks worldwide. I do know it’s in Dantiez’s DNA too. When individuals hear the album, I hope they hear the connection between a father and son on the identical path of making music.”
On the decks, Sanuderson and Dantiez have collaborated for over a decade, first linking up for a B2B with Boiler Room in Chicago and later touring famend festivals and venues like Glastonbury and the Warehouse Undertaking for Interior Metropolis’s dwell return after a 30-year hiatus.
Simply days after the album’s scheduled launch this spring, Saunderson will crew up with Dantiez and his different son, Damarii, for a particular Kevin Saunderson B2B The Saunderson Brothers efficiency at Detroit’s well-known Motion Music Competition, which the KMS Data boss helped create in 2000.
Try the complete tracklist for e-Dancer and hearken to “Feelings” under.
e-Dancer Tracklist
1. “Melodica”
2. “Feelings”
3. “Dancer”
4. “Frequency”
5. “Symbolical”
6. “Reece Punch”
7. “Drumtalk”
8. “Carry The Funk”
9. “Really feel The Rhythm”
10. “Escape”
Featured picture courtesy: Kevin Saunderson.
