ARTIST...: Planas
TITLE....: Better Days
YEAR.....: 2012
LABEL....: Exceptional Records
CAT.NO...: EXEC167
GENRE....: Bass
TIME.....: 04:49 min
SIZE.....: 11,0 MB
QUALITY..: 320kbps/44.1kHz/Joint-Stereo
ENCODER..: LAME
SOURCE...: WEB
RLS.DATE.: 2012/09/05
WEBSITE..: http://www.bagpak.net

TRACKLIST

01) (04:49) Better Days

Toby Davies (Planas) follows up the much acclaimed and heavily rotated Breathtaking
single with his third release for Exceptional Blue label: Better Days .

Better Days shows Planas in full party mode. A merger of 80’s drums, lurching,
distorted bass stabs and euphoric vintage rack synth chords, Better Days looks both
backwards and forwards at the same time, harnessing the feel good sounds of the
eighties and nineties and mashing them together with cutting edge production
techniques and a mammoth slab of sub bass. Linn drum tom fills and wailing guitar
lead lines punctuate this instrumental piece, which, after a goosebump-inspiring
intro quickly develops into an intergalactic space funk explosion that’s like
standing under a waterfall of pure sonic joy.

The main themes and motifs reoccur, evolving and weaving together with ease, showing
Planas as both a master musician and master producer. Fans of Rustie, Hudson Mohawke
and David Hasselhoff will definitely dig.

In other news Planas has been typically busy recently remixing the Foreign Beggars
track ‘Flying To Mars’ which was released on 2nd July through the esteemed Mau5trap
Records whilst the Planas mix of ‘Finest Hour’ by Exceptional Blue labelmates
Submotion Orchestra has reached over 200,000 YouTube views.

Toby has either produced, engineered or written songs with a growing list of great
artists including Dionne Bromfield, Binky Griptite of The Dap Kings, Tim Hutton (The
Prodigy/Groove Armada), Sinead Harnett, Alex Clare (Island) and Kim Burse - Beyonce's
creative director. He also co-produced and recorded vocals for tracks on the L-Vis
1990 album, ‘Neon Dreams’. Steadily building his credentials with rated releases on
Ranking (which he co-owns) and Immerse records, his productions plus remixes for the
likes of Foreign Beggars, Black Diamond Bay and Screaming Soul have won DJ support
from Mary Anne Hobbs (BBC Radio 1, XFM), Gilles Peterson (BBC Radio 1/6 Music), Don
Letts (BBC 6 Music), Ronnie Herel (BBC 1Xtra), Mr Scruff (Solid Steel), Pearson Sound
(Hessle Audio), DJ Nonames (Foreign Beggars) and DJ Q (BBC 1Xtra).

Toby is an original member of Gentleman’s Dub Club, for whom he writes, produces and
plays bass, plus he founded the renowned club night Vagabondz, which is now part of
the Outlook Festival inCroatia.

Planas’ live act has been growing in stature with great reviews from the March tour
with Submotion Orchestra. Planas Live is a four-piece band including Toby himself, Ed
Thomas (synths/vocals) who also featured on the Author album (Tectonic), Claudia
Georgette (vocals/percussion) who featured on Planas' first Exceptional release,
‘Merry Go Round’ and Niall Lavelle (drums/percussion) who also plays
percussion/synths for Gentleman's Dub Club. Toby’s DJ appearances include Outlook
Festival (Croatia), Subline (Russia), True Badness (Bulgaria),Vagabondz (London), Sub
Dub (London) and the Outlook festival launch party in London.