Lockhart household celebrates lifetime of beloved techno producer i_o with launch of posthumous album, ‘Warehouse Summer time,’ co-written by Lights – Dancing Astronaut

On the two-year anniversary of the dying of techno DJ/producer i_o (born Garrett Lockhart), the Lockhart household and i_o collaborator Lights have fun his life and musical legacy with the discharge of Warehouse Summer time. The LP, co-written by Lights, whose vocals are featured throughout the album, includes 14 unique unreleased tracks. Notably, Warehouse Summer time marks the primary and solely time that i_o’s music has been posthumously launched following his sudden dying on November 23, 2020 from pure causes associated to Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, an autoimmune dysfunction related to persistent irritation of the thyroid.

“We’d prefer to thank all who’ve patiently and lovingly stood by ready for us, G’s household, to say sure to releasing these final tracks. Thanks to the i_o administration for bringing collectively all of the groups essential to launch these final tracks of music produced by Garrett & Lights. We’re grateful to them and so many others for his or her common ‘check-ins’ with us, permitting us time and area to overlook him and grieve his absence,” The Lockhart household stated in a press release launched on November 22. “We liked listening to from so many, as every of us keep in mind Garrett in several methods. A few of your tales made us giggle or smile, others made us cry, for it’s in these tales we relived a lot of what Garrett was about as an individual and within the some ways his life impacted every of us. Thanks for sharing yourselves with us, it has really helped within the therapeutic.  We hope with this music launch there might be therapeutic for others as effectively.  Proceed to take mild care of yourselves and one another, remembering how fragile life will be. On November 23, 2022, Warehouse Summer time, a legacy album, might be launched. Tomorrow, we have fun you.”

“It is a physique of labor that I’m immensely pleased with and am very emotionally linked to. Garrett was endlessly gifted and he impressed me to offer my all and be my finest. It’s protected to say making this album with him was life altering. I hope you immerse your self in it, there’s a lot to really feel in Warehouse Summer time,” added Lights. In a tweet, Lights clarified that she and i_o made the album in 2020. “It’s one factor that may at all times stay a triumph, a bittersweet opus from that 12 months,” she wrote.

A cerebral extension of i_o’s signature sound, Warehouse Summer time is out now by way of Armada Music and will be streamed beneath.