British musician Pále - aka Leo Marcus - says he's excited to finally bring his unique brand of intricate low-frequency bass-driven house music to Australia. “I'm really looking forward to it,” he says. “I've never really done a tour and so it's going to be really quite different for me but I'm really looking forward to it.” After only DJing shows for the past two years, the 19-year-old British musician is road-testing his new live shows in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. “It's the first time I'm doing live sets rather than DJing so there's loads of new songs and I'm going to be doing a lot of changes to the material. I think the live set is definitely a lot less dance-driven than my DJ set but hopefully that won't be taken the wrong way by people because I want it to be a bit more about the sound rather than just making people dance.”
Included in the new material will be Marcus's latest release All Silver, a unique lo-fi jam packed with crisp drums and percussion that stands out as another prime example of his distinctive talent. The track was a product of a year-long process for Marcus, which he says was needed for the song to take shape. “I have quite a lot of tracks but I'll work on them for a month and then leave them and pick them up again later,” he says. “It was weird going back to that a year later because I think my quality of production has really changed since then. You sort of create music from what you're feeling and so when I came back to it a year later it was completely different because I felt different. So that's when it turned out with loads of different sections and bits... I know a lot of people who can make a track in a day and release it and I can't really imagine myself doing that because I don't think a day is enough time to think about anything. But I also think that that kind of sets me apart a little bit.”
Marcus also reveals he's got ideas for a follow-up EP, once he's gotten some feedback from the Australian crowd. “I think after doing all the live gigs I'll know how people react to the new songs and so I'll take them back to England and edit them. I'll do another EP, I'm thinking of working on some more stuff with Joshua Idehen like the last EP so there will be a lot more vocal stuff. But I've got a load of tracks waiting so it will be interesting in terms of what I do because I don't really have any plans.”
