you might have heard: GANYMEDE
- Oscar Spivey Green
- Feb 18, 2019
- 2 min read
Ganymede - Mall Grab
Welcome to the first EVER edition of SONGS YOU MIGHT HAVE HEARD! Here I take a randomly selected song, by a randomly selected artist, from a randomly selected UK festival line up – it couldn’t be simpler. This week I am featuring: Ganymede by Mall Grab, selected from the Parklife 2019 (https://parklife.uk.com/) line up! Enjoy!
THE SONG:
One of Mall Grabs earlier releases, on the 2015 EP All Night Long, Ganymede is named after the largest and most massive moon in the solar system. It lives up to its namesake. It is so large.
Massive too.
The production is both ethereal yet jagged, trance-inducing yet awakening, engaging yet simple. Bathed in reverb, there is an engulfing nature to it, providing that sort of close-your-eyes-and-just-dance vibe that Mall Grab has delivered time and time again.
It is carefully and beautifully constructed: the main driving melody flows in and out like the tide, the vocals add a layer of mystique (As of yet I can’t even figure out what the lyric is – and it’s been out 4 years), and the beat gently yet insistently implores you to keep moving. Much like the aforementioned waves, this is really a song to get washed away in, consumed by the salt water that is the pulsating rhythm.
It’s a great bit of deep house, and an early example of the high standard that Mall Grab would come to deliver repeatedly over the next few years.
And even if you ignore all that, the title is about space.
Space is cool.
THE ARTIST:
Hailing from Australia, Mall Grab (known to his friends as Jordan Alexander) is a house music producer who emerged in 2015 with his unexpectedly successful EP Feel U – despite Mall Grab being an essentially unknown quantity, it sold out. Fast.
Not a bad start.
Since then, Alexander has been releasing house that varies from absorbing and deep efforts – such as Ganymede and Liverpool Street In The Rain – to more aggressive and hard edged styles – such as Looking for Trouble or Black Palms – and much that fits in between.
This versatility and willingness to play with inspirations and styles is what sets Alexander ahead of many house producers, and regardless of where the song is coming from, the style remains undeniably his – no mean feat when travelling between hard-edged electro and disco as apparent influences.
Other songs to check out: Pool Party Music, B.F.O.D.A.A.S, Looking For Trouble
RATING:
8/10
Quintessential Mall Grab. I wish it were 10 minutes long. If you find yourself at Parklife Festival (Heaton Park Manchester, June 8-9 - https://parklife.uk.com/) then I cannot recommend going to this set enough.
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