Nov 07, 2009

Texas music producer Ernest Gonzales is the owner of Exponential Records but now he’s preparing to bring his own tunes into the public spotlight. Friends of Friends (FoF) Music, already distributed a curatorial art book/covers EP last month, entitled Self Awakening. Now comes word of a debut full-length, entitled Been Meaning to Tell You. That release is slated to drop in February 2010. It’s FoF’s first LP release after two earlier EPs.

Above, we have the title track of Self Awakening available for free download. The guitar/electric tapestry heard on this preview is a nice foretaste of the aural head trips to come. The EP features another original song, and remixes/alternate takes by Gonzales’ electronic buds Faunts, Take, CYNE, Yppah!, and Mexicans with Guns. Additionally, Been Meaning to Tell You LP will be released with an entire accompanying album of 16 covers and remixes curated by FoF and Gonzales; including Daedelus (Ninja Tune), Copy (Audio Dregs), Aether (Exponential), as well as the re-rubbers from the recent EP.

Here’s what Gonzales had to say about the preview EP’s title cut: “The title “Self Awakening” refers to the final scene of the film [Vanilla Sky] when the main character, David, needs to make a choice to continue living in a lucid dream or overcome a giant fear to live in the real world. ‘The sweet is never as sweet without the sour.’ These words are some of the last bits of advice given to David…a very resonating message in my mind.” Give “Self Awakening” a listen above and jump into the dream world.