Label Review.
2017 album.
Our Overview.
Although College as a project is 10 years old, French electronica musician and producer David “College” Grellier has been making computer music a lot longer than that. He scored his first computer in the late 90s, producing demos inspired by the likes of Aphex Twin and Jeff Mills, and labels such as Soma, Warp, and Peacefrog. He’s also delved in electro-clash with the Sexy Sushi project.
College now return with their third full length album; ’Shanghai’, a rich, glowing and nostalgic synth-based offering reminiscent of previous works heard in ‘A Real Hero’ (‘Drive’ soundtrack) but at the same time exploring a unique and conceptual world - ‘Shanghai’ - giving College’s textural and atmospherical works a brand new dimension.
‘Shanghai’ is an album inspired by the city itself - its culture and architecture; a melting pot of many things. Musically College draw on 90s sounds and the work from artists including Mark Snow, Angelo Badalamenti, Joe Hisaishi and Aphex Twin. In College’s own words: “This record is a mysterious ballad in the heart of 1920s Shanghai... An invitation to travel, a tribute to the refinement and in the delicacy of a fantasised and blurry period of time, which fed the imagination of the musicians, the artists and the architects of this mythical city. Young Chinese singer Hama, a Shanghai native, also honours me by singing on the title ‘Love Peas’.”
Full EU / UK tour planned around the release of the album. CD housed in a digipack CD. LP pressed on gold vinyl and housed in a spined sleeve with gold foil lettering and artwork and digital download card included.