OCULA finalizes heat welcome on Monstercat with ‘On The Run’ EP – Dancing Astronaut
by: Ross Goldenberg
Nov 9, 2022
OCULA now has each a full-length This By no means Occurred album and a debut Monstercat EP underneath his belt in 2022. Throughout summer time’s waning moments, OCULA grew to become the latest department of the Monstercat household, inking a label deal not too lengthy following his label entrance. And one of many unequivocally brightest acts in melodic home determined to journey the Crossroad momentum and proceed to flesh out his discography even deeper into the calendar, now placing the ultimate touches on his first full Monstercat launch, On The Run.
When “Try Me” landed nearly two months in the past to the day, it was abundantly overt that OCULA’s tie with Monstercat was going to be a fruitful, longstanding one. And our intestine feeling of a looming bigger undertaking started trending nearer in the appropriate course as soon as “Renaissance” with Luke Coulson grew to become what can be the second constructing block to his first prolonged effort since Crossroad. That inkling rang true on November 4, with OCULA happening to connect the EP’s eponymous quantity in addition to “Ready.”
That includes Julia Church—whose title is likely to be acquainted from Lane 8‘s “Oh Miles“—the EP’s title minimize arrives as a melodic-house ballad centered round “somebody who’s an enigma, laborious to like and unattached, however who nonetheless exists in each fiber of your being. It’s about saving area for them in case they ever wish to discover their approach dwelling and reconnect.” And “Ready”—the On The Run launch day B-side—gracefully concludes the four-sided EP by way of a lulling three-and-a-half-minute finale. Whereas On The Run is an plain continuation of OCULA’s sheer manufacturing brilliance that he’s proven time and time once more, it additionally lays out a launch pad for his inventive exploration, with him explaining,
“The principle factor I’ve taken away from creating and crafting this EP is that it’s good to push myself a bit of out of my consolation zone, whereas nonetheless trusting my very own skills to make the tip outcome work. The considered solely creating one type of music for years to come back is fairly terrifying, so it’s actually refreshing to combine in new sounds, discover completely different moods, and break the behavior of resorting again to the identical construction.”
If 4 new OCULA tracks weren’t sufficient in a single sitting, he additionally doubled up on releases to server as Lane 8’s newest Reviver remixer with a tackle “Watermelon Wormhole.” Stream all of it under.
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