Afterlife according to Alex Banks

On Last Night On Earth, Brighton producer, multi-instrumentalist, and audiovisual innovator Alex Banks offers two new electrifying tracks.

Photo by Bobby Vasilev

Alex Banks operates in an electronic world of his own. Drawing from the diverse styles of jungle, broken beat, techno, and IDM, he cooks up scintillating sounds with grand architecture. Analog machines are often at the heart of his work, and his boundary-pushing ideas have come across three experimental albums and plenty of EPs for labels like Max Cooper's forward-thinking Mesh as well as Modeselektor's Monkeytown and Ninja Tune. As such, he is a perfect fit for Sasha's label, where he now returns after having previously contributed to the "TEN" compilation.

The magnificent opener, "Afterlife," is full of instantly engaging melodies that douse you with clear, lush sounds. Each one twinkles as bright as a star while chords rise up the scales. It makes for an epic rush that courses through every nerve in your body while the rugged beats keep things moving onwards. "Impermanence" is just as ambitious in scale, though this time with a deeper, more driving rhythm and pixelated leads breaking out like sun rays through a cloud. It's an emotionally intense, uplifting track that will bring pure dance floor elation.

Alex Banks - Afterlife
Release Date February 2025
Label Last Night On Earth

Tracklist
01. Afterlife
02. Impermanence