Terrence Dixon returns to Tresor with ‘When Stars Remember’ EP

Despite his thirty-year career, Detroit original Terrence Dixon has always managed to keep a lower profile than his peers; he has given few interviews, preferring instead to speak through his music, with cryptic song titles hinting at the thoughts swirling around their creation.

However, โ€˜When Stars Rememberโ€™ finds him stepping forward. โ€œI wanted to get closer to the dancefloor. I consciously made this one feel louderโ€ฆmade with Tresor specifically in mind.โ€ And the EP does just that: whilst many of the hall marks of a Terrence Dixon production are present, the drums are more forward; the synth arpeggios so bold that โ€˜monumentalโ€™ seems a better descriptor than โ€˜minimalโ€™.

โ€œI put three or four sounds together on the same track, layering to make something biggerโ€, he says of opening track โ€˜Mono Collapseโ€™, though the statement could apply to any of the music appearing on the release as all four pieces fold in sonics to create something hypnotic; more than the individual parts.

โ€œIf you stick with the same layered tones, and repeat it over, after a while your brain changes it on its own; you hear a lot of things: things that you didnโ€™t notice at first, things that maybe arenโ€™t even there.โ€

The absence of things is another main theme of the EP, especially what Dixon sees as โ€˜The Forgottenโ€™, a group of fundamental principles like common sense, trust, loyalty, honesty and respect that are missing from modern life. โ€œThis world is differentโ€ฆthe love is gone. But I love everybody, man. I think, secretly, everybody love everybody, but they just donโ€™t know.

โ€˜When Stars Rememberโ€™, due out March 13th. Today they share the first single ‘Mono Collapse’ available onย Bandcampย &ย streaming platforms.



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