With Analogue Souls, Liquid 1nc opens a door to a long-forgotten club room where the mirror ball still spins and the bass beats pound through the room like heartbeats. But instead of mere nostalgia, Rogue FX and ARPRAXIS deliver a work that blends past and present – like two rivers merging into a new stream. The four tracks feel like different chapters of a journey: ‘Liquid Lunch’ sparkles playfully like a ray of sunshine on chrome, light-footed and full of groove. The title track ‘Analogue Soul’ pulls you deeper, hypnotic like a night train through endless strings of lights. ‘Ride Again’ is the engine that picks up speed, a dance rock bullet that pushes forward. ‚Liquid Soul‘ closes the circle. It does so with an electrifying mix of funk and house. It’s like fireworks bathing the sky in neon colours. The EP is not merely a retro revival, but a love letter in analogue tones, written with heart and soul and modern subtlety. Analogue Souls sounds like a familiar dream that suddenly comes back to life – music for the body, mind and those dance floors that never really disappeared.

Interview

How did you two meet and decide to form Liquid 1nc, and what unites you creatively?

ARP– We met in person for the first time at Radio Wigwam’s Awards in early 24. A great evening. Mr Rogue FX was incredibly chilled, cool and easy to be with. We discovered we had lots in common musically and kept in touch.

Andrew – yes that sounds grand that we met at an awards ceremony actually and as John mentioned we have similar , but not the same musical tastes and I think that helps create quite unique music, which we initially started to explore on Rogue FX and ARPRAXIS collaborations G Star 84 and Some Kind Of Bliss which we had a lot of fun with and loved how they turned out and were received so decided to take the next step and form a full project away from our day jobs so to speak.

ARP – I feel that together we bring something we may not have achieved alone. Having two minds approach our concepts and ideas allies and allows us to flow into new sonic avenues, the creativity is really rewarding and we are looking forward to seeing how we develop our absolute passion for making music.

Which specific 80s and 90s influences shaped „Analogue Souls“, and how did you update those sounds for today?

ARP – Quite tricky this one. The whole vibe of making music that you like and not thinking about genre, I think is partly down to the broad range of music back in the 80s and 90s that was easily interchangeable. I’d hear hip house, hip hop, rave, rock, pop, synth and just notice that I liked it. The idea of just listening to one genre wasn’t a thing then for me nor now. I think this has influenced the sound in a subconscious level. In terms of updating the sounds for today…I’m not quite sure!

Andrew – Yes I agree with that we are creating tracks that usually sit outside genre boxes , that are a but of a melting pot of lots of influences but certainly we touch on electro, soul, house, funk, breaks and synth pop and the 80s and 90s are just periods where you were free to explore within genres and gave fun with that.

What combination of analogue hardware and modern digital tools did you use, and how did that influence the texture of the EP?

ARP – For Liquid Soul, there is a ton of samples from the synths and drum machines I’ve owned over the decades. The kick drum, bass and percussion were all from the SH101. It has such a punch. On the whole it’s a real 50/50 balance of sounds. I no longer have any outboard hardware and mainly use the UAD Studer, UAD stock reverb and the eq in the DAW to shape sound. A lot of it is run through a cassette and then recorded back in to smooth things out or add hiss. There’s a real difference between type 1, 2 and 4 cassettes and the character. I feel that we need to go back to CV to Midi though for the next releases just for the raw power of analogue…being tight on space is a solution I need to consider to make this happen.

Andrew – The basic musical tracks have been put together by John in his lab and I tend to adapt them into a song structure, im often editing tracks 80s style but without the tape and razors so that they flow into a structure for the lyrics. I record the vocals on an Audia Technica mic via a Zoom audio interface and finally add some musical and percussive overdubs via VSTS I have lying around on the DAW floor – just adding some texture to the tracks.

What inspired the limited vinyl run, and are there any special features or extras collectors should look out for?

Andrew – it was really inspired by the end result, we thought that the EP had such a fun vibe and really enveloped the love for 80s and 90s multi genre dance music that we would put that to vinyl and these days companys like Elastic Stage allow that to happen. It is going to be a limited run so collectors can look forward to something quite unique with all the tactile assets that vinyl has. The vinyl release is set for end October we will release links on the social.

What feeling or message do you want listeners to take away from the EP?

ARP– For me, that music is fun and a great way to convert your thoughts be it through vocals or the music. Maybe even for someone to listen to it and be inspired to do something a bit different without worrying about Spotify curators’ possible frowning and denying access to a playlist because it’s not ‘my usual 127bpm’ for their playlist. Maybe even the start of a paradigm shift where genres start to dissolve and a love of music is displayed on non-genre specific playlists. We used to have these things called ‘mix tapes’ way back way and I am absolutely convinced they re-wired our synaptic pathways to embrace diversity in so many ways…so, maybe for people to mix listening habits or mixing up the tunes they make.

Andrew – Fully agree, this is an EP that does not concern itself with 2025 methods of music releases and genre boxing, it is music we like, it may not suit the curators strict playlist formats but hopefully that will be embraced by music lovers as the message is listen and have fun with it.