The Australia-born, Berlin-based producer and DJ’s debut album ‘Mother’ is a result of personal breakthroughs. It’s a banging way to start 2024 n the world of dance music, timing is everything. Be it a huge remix, a summer festival smasher, capturing the zeitgeist or your track dropping appearance in a viral set – these can be seismic. It’s something Logic1000 – real name Samantha Poulter – knows well: in 2019, Four Tet dropped her breakthrough single ‘DJ Logic Please Forgive Me’ in his Coachella set; now, five years later, her debut album ‘Mother’ (March 22) arrives following the birth of her daughter and a mental health breakthrough. It is, truly, her time.
“After I had given birth, it felt more deliberate to want to create. I wanted to create something really seismic,” Poulter tells NME, huddled over a coffee in north London. When we meet in December, this is one of the first times she’s spoken about the record and its journey, a love letter to the house music scene that has kept her strong and creative throughout her life. It was recorded with her partner and longtime producer Tom McAllister in their Berlin home. “I wanted to prove to [our daughter] that I was working while she was around. This is something I can show to her when she’s older and say, ‘This is what mum and dad did’.” Though the timing within Poulter’s life is fortuitous, she insists it’s not a ‘concept’ record as such – not one song about sleep deprivation, you’ll notice. But even so, the lessons of parenthood seep into every song: this is a record full of bright-eyed wonder and of a creative duo entering a new phase of their relationship together. How else to explain opener ‘From Within’ and its sparkling soundscape, the confidence in ‘Heartbeat’’s groove or the pop-leaning collaborations with Rochelle Jordan (‘Promises’) and Kayla Blackmon (‘Self To Blame’). This album exists right at the moment it’s supposed to. Now, Poulter and ‘Mother’ join the latest wave of disparate electronic producers imbuing their work with personal narratives, however subtle or blatant. Sofia Kourtesis’ recent debut – ironically titled ‘Madres’ – fused familial stories into big beats, while Yaeji’s ‘With A Hammer’ processed internalised anger and relationship dynamics. It’ll be a richly rewarding return for fans who’ve followed Poulter’s rise through remixes for Christine and The Queens and Glass Animals, 2021’s superb EP ‘You’ve Got The Whole Night To Go’ and collaborations with rising stars like Yuné Pinku. She now stands at the epicentre of a bubbling creative universe. “When I entered motherhood I was like, ‘If I can create a baby, I can create something else that’s pretty awesome’,” she laughs, huddled in a puffer jacket the day after her NME Cover shoot. “It felt like I finally had confidence in myself.” Read More https://www.nme.com/features/the-cover/the-cover-logic1000-interview-mother-3565980
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