Sam Girling makes his Hessle Audio debut with Drive By Strokes / Primrose Mountain, a two-track release that captures the euphoric yet stripped-back direction his music has taken over the past year. The Bedford-born producer and DJ has increasingly focused on late-night club music with a strong UK foundation, balancing tension and urgency via the melodic playfulness that runs through his work. That shift has become more pronounced across his recent releases and through Attacca, the party series and label Girling runs alongside his own productions. Tracks from this period have found their way into the sets of Ben UFO, Call Super and Surusinghe, helping establish a distinct signature sound which feels unmistakably modern but harks back to the dizzying genre splicing of the early 2010s, when Hessle Audio was establishing itself. Both Drive By Strokes and Primrose Mountain have already developed a life of their own through DJ sets in the months leading up to release. "It's been surreal to watch people develop a familiarity with these tracks over the last few months from the guys' sets, and now my own!" Sam says. "Ben closing out Dekmantel with 'Drive By Strokes' was such a moment for me. I get people coming up to me every set talking about it and it's become my closer too now. I'm so proud to have this 2-tracker out on Hessle Audio."

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