DJ and producer Gaskin has dropped the third and final volume of his three-part debut album project, Energy Crew, featuring our focus track, 'Sheetz'.
Comprised of 19 tracks in total, Energy Crew is a record bound by emotion and sentiment, anchored in his hometown of Newcastle — the birthplace of his event brand and label, Bass Jamz. Written as a tribute to childhood friend and fellow Bass Jamz co-founder, Humby, who sadly passed away three years ago, Energy Crew has been compiled in three parts, with tracks falling into three distinct categories; reminiscing, partying and honouring.
Some tracks were fleshed out from early beat sketches that Gaskin and Humby had shared, while others were written on a winter writing camp in Bali — a cathartic process that Gaskin felt allowed him to pour his own emotions into his music properly for the first time.
Listen to ‘Sheetz’ on F1 Tracks.
Also featuring contributions from Bass Jamz artists Wildish, Ellia Jaya and Mizbee, as well as vocalists Taïya, Eboni Green, Stee Downes and Aaron Pfeiffer, each six-track album Part features two from each category, to give listeners the time and space to take in the stories and textures underpinning each individual track.
Part 1 features records like upfront, ‘90s-core groover, ‘Time To Jam’ (feat. Taïya), and emotional hyperpop closer, ‘G Life’, while Part 2 sees Gaskin team up with Ellia Jaya on the ethereal ‘Dream Or Fantasy’, before turning up the heat on tracks like elastic bubbler, ‘Make You Sweat’. Freshly-released Part 3 features peaktime Gaskin solo cuts like ‘Sheetz’ and ‘Mesmerised’, as well as poignant album standout, ‘Memories’, featuring LA rapper and vocalist, Benni Ola.
‘Energy Crew’ itself was the name Gaskin and his late childhood friend Humby gave to themselves as aspiring young DJs, with Gaskin deciding that now felt like the right time to honour the bond that has gone on to bring the Bass Jamz crew so much success in the world of electronic music.
“Energy Crew is a story built from 19 tracks that have all come together over the last two years”, Gaskin notes. “It’s about the crazy journey that me and my team are on, and also in memory of my brother and co-founder of Bass Jamz, Humby, who sadly passed away three years ago. The intro to the album tells the story .. it’s about the blood, sweat and tears we’ve put into this, and how we’re now finally living the good life off the back of it all. But even after everything we’ve been through, this still feels like just the beginning.”
