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Brainlove Festival: Enjoyed

Luke Morgan Britton | Tuesday 15 May, 2012 18:54

UK producer Enjoyed has seemed to have popped out of nowhere during the past month. Prior to April, the electronic musician had only a handful of live appearances to his name, including a DJ slot at last year’s Binnacle micro-festival at the Old Blue Last. After some recent attention from the likes of The Guardian, Dummy and XLR8R, however, this seems all ready to change.

Latest single ‘Teeth’, from the forthcoming ‘Sugar’ EP, is a full-on disco showpiece, a taster of what the artist himself calls his genre of “joystep”. The artwork and corresponding video delves into swirling, abstracts patterns and lush colour schemes that reflect Enjoyed’s own highly tactile, mood-based and visual sensibility. The live set is just as engrossing – so we’re very happy to have him playing at Brainlove Festival this year. Tickets: here.

Could you introduce a little about yourself first and foremost?

I’m Peter Evans-Pritchard from Hampshire. I make colourful electronic music under the name, Enjoyed. I grew up listening to what MVC called, ‘dance’ music, and that’s what I like to make.

For people who haven’t seen you live before, what can they expect?

Lots of colour, lots of dancing, lots of my grimacing singing face and hopefully lots of fun.

Have you played or even been to the Brainlove Festival prior to this year?

I have not, unfortunately for me!

If no, what are you looking forward to most about it?

I’m really looking forward to seeing a whole bunch of people I’ve not come across before. That’s always exciting.

Looking at the line-up, who are you excited about seeing live?

I’m gonna have to say Napoleon IIIrd. I saw him a few years back at a local festival down in my neck of the woods called, ‘Woolfire’. Back then he had a huge reel to reel on stage with him and he sounded amazing. I’m really psyched to see what he’s up to nowadays!

How do you find festivals in general? Do you prefer smaller venue shows?

I do enjoy a good ‘big festival’; Glastonbury, Bestival etc. There’s something about being in a crowd of thousands, losing it to ‘Star Guitar’ together, that you really can’t beat. That said, some of my favourite ever gigs have been sit down, theatre type shows. It’s less energetic but sometimes you just need a comfy seat to listen in!

Do you enjoy the prospect of people that necessarily aren’t that familiar with your music getting the chance to stumble upon you?

I love the prospect! It’s basically the best way for people to hear your music. I’ve gotten into a bunch of great bands and artists from just wandering around at gigs and festivals. I think it connects more with people if they find something themselves. They make more of a personal attachment than if they simply read about it on the interweb and that’s just a nice thing!

Could you tell us a little bit about the track you chose to give away as a free download?

It’s called ‘Teeth’… Don’t ask me why. It’s kind of about living in a city, and kind of not. It’s supposed to be a sort of journey. I wrote a lot of it on the train to and from Brighton so I tried to make it so it could accompany that sort of venture. It’s one of the more bluey-yellow songs I’ve written…

What do your band have going on at the moment? Anything you’re working on or forthcoming releases in the works?

I’m in the run up to releasing my new EP ‘Sugar’, which comes out on June 4th. I’ve just finished up the video for ‘Teeth’ as well and the rest of the tracks from the EP will be making their way out over the next month or so. After that it’s back to remixing and finishing the album…

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