New Music • In Memory

Having taken a breath from the dance-floor, Montreal’s Patrick Holland (fka Project Pablo) finds his footing firmly in the club with "In Memory".

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I’ve got a new EP out today: 4 songs made in a flow state.

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In 2024 I took the time to freely jam, predominantly on an ever growing/changing modular system, with no goal in mind beyond making stuff that would be welcome in a club environment. Sounds simple enough, but it wasn’t something I’d been doing on a regular basis the previous 4 years. Time away helped, and I found the new system in front of me to be the perfect tool to keep things lean and precise. Each of the 4 tunes was made in an afternoon, all initial ideas caught in that first session, vocals and all. I sat on these loops for months, wondering when I’d have the time to finally go in and edit the raw stems. Once the time appeared, things wrapped up quick. I’ll do a deep dive or two into these via the “Under The Hood” column soon enough, but I’ll let them breath in their undissected state for now.

ps. I made a photo print t-shirt with a custom blank, shipping from Montreal in about a week or so.

Having taken a breath from the dancefloor, Patrick Holland finds his footing firmly in the club with “In Memory”. “Fast Forward” lyrically lingers on the inconveniences of the weekend over a distilled electro-tech-house beat juxtaposed with brazen gestures that leap out like a well timed jump scare. Taking the same textural approach, “Days” scratches at your speakers’ tweeter with raucous modular riffs and vocal chops. The bass thud and warm synth clusters welcome in a moodier approach to the uptempo skitter, though the energy never fades. Where the A side steps forward, the B side confidently takes the backseat – “Classless Act” maintains the bpm, but pulls for a drunken melodic hook and calm pads for a smoother landing. The title track utilizes Holland’s familiar set of gear – dubbed out chords, hefty sub, dusted percussion – along with a dose of vocoder, transforming shrouded affirmations into an earworm synth lead.