Late Night Present After Dark: Vespertine is a DJ mix album by Bill Brewster for Late Night Tales. The fourth installment of the After Dark spinoff series, it was released by Night Time Stories on 4 August 2023. Like previous After Dark selections, Vespertine focuses on downtempo tracks, either previously unreleased or obscure, hard-to-find rarities. It features artists such as Khruangbin (remixed by Brewster with Ray Mang as Mang Dynasty), Gilbert O'Sullivan, Jeb Loy Nichols (remixed by Brewster with Alex Tepper as Hotel Motel), and Chaz Jankel.
The album was released as an unmixed 12-track double vinyl LP and a mixed 19-track CD, with different tracklists, and both mixed and unmixed versions for streaming and digital download. Brewster played a live DJ set at Phonica Records in London on 17 August 2023 as promotion for the album.
Background
According to Brewster, the concept of the album was "a basement, a red light and a sound system. Or, as the Beastie's once rapped, slow and low, that is the tempo", with none of the tracks exceeding 115 bpm. In an interview for Juno Records, Brewster noted that the compilation was first discussed with Night Time Stories in 2018, but was derailed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two tracks were made available as a single ahead of the album's release: "So What" by Gilbert O'Sullivan, edited by Nail (Neil Tolliday of DiY Sound System and Bent), and "1998" by Fernando.
Track listing
Unmixed double LP version
Mixed CD/digital version
References
External links
After Dark: Vespertine at Late Night Tales