[EDMTunes] Guy J Brings Back Cornucopia Alias With Two-Tracker ‘Remember Me / Early Morning’

Progressive House at its finest, coming from the industry’s finest too.

Let’s start with what’s important. Cornucopia is back. Let’s continue with the second most important aspect of it all: my best friend and I had been talking about this TWO DAYS before the announcement. So you can be certain he and I were so looking forward to the first Cornucopia release in almost three years.

Guy J is an absolute genius. And even though I’m just getting to know his discography now, I know it’s the right time to do so: it’s a bit of a more developed taste in music, kind of like an IPA beer versus a lager or a flavoured one. And I know I didn’t have the ears to enjoy his stuff years ago, but thanks to my mate (Rama, who I’ve talked about in other articles), Guy has truly grown on me. And his stuff is incredible.

From him closing his iconic imprint Lost & Found to him founding a new label, Early Morning, he’s taken fans on a true rollercoaster these past months. And the level of music he’s been putting out since is elite. Well, back to Cornucopia.

Cornucopia

His alternative alias takes his engulfing, atmospheric side to a whole new level. His main stuff often comes out as somewhat dark these days, not always but there’s a tint of more upbeat, late-night packed nightclub vibe to it. Cornucopia is that, minus the darkness. Cornucopia is an artist who makes of each track a journey and a story.

With impressive attention to detail, Guy’s Cornucopia records care about the little things, often spraying ear candy around, while evolving a simple and minimalistic idea over the course of an entire track. And I’m happy to drive this point home with a very recent piece of evidence: the ‘Remember Me / Early Morning‘ EP.

‘Remember Me / Early Morning‘

Out now via his newly founded Early Morning record label, just now did we find out it owes its name to the second track of this release. The EP finally brings out to the public two highly anticipated tracks, which we’d been hearing for years as IDs at Guy’s shows. Both tracks are a journey, so much so that my only complaint is that each should’ve lasted for twelve minutes, not 7.5.

‘Remember Me’

As a whole, the track has few elements. A rhythmic pattern, which is followed by many of the melodic signals, very warm plucks perhaps supported by a kind of background pad (or maybe just delay), modular gifts all over, frequency plays, and a haunting and inviting whole gets you hooked. That’s all it takes for this man to make an optimal record. Once you finally come down from the trip, the song is almost over.

‘Early Morning’

Good Lord, I gave this track a spin before writing this paragraph, it’s been three minutes and I was lost in the sound until I remembered I had played it to gather inspiration. Well, that sums it up I reckon: ‘Early Morning’ is a track that is cleverly produced over a warm bed of Guy J signature groove and machine-programmed percussion, and its melodic elements truly, truly resemble the sights of that hour where the Sun starts to rise above the horizon and light everything in its cold, yet inviting colours.

Both tracks have that sense of warmth to them, like a sonic hug of some sort. I guess if I couldn’t find the words before, now I can: Cornucopia feels like a hug, a deep, rich, vulnerable conversation with the man behind the art. And me, being a fan of those tracks hiding something apart from just music and lasers and smoke, I could listen to this EP all day long.

Listen to Cornucopia‘s return, the brand-new ‘Remember Me / Early Morning’ EP, by hitting the ‘Play‘ button on the Spotify player below. Also, click here to support the release on your Beatport. Be sure to follow our page to stay up to date on the latest news and views regarding our beloved Dance music industry.

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