Track by track with Ben Westbeech
The Book
“It’s a nice intro to the album. It was more of a new sound, for me. So, it sets up the record for where it’s gonna go, next.
“At the time I was really into Erlend Øye and The Whitest Boy Alive. That was an influence on this. I’ve always dug that German funk/ boogie sound. And there’s a lot of great players in Berlin.
“I worked on this with a guy called Georg Levin, who is a great Berlin producer. He’d remixed Hang Around off my first album with Dixon, under the moniker, Wahoo. I just loved what he’d done, so I reached out to him.
“We recorded in a real underground little bunker in Berlin. It was pretty grim down there [laughs]. You could really feel the music coming off the padded walls as you walked in.”
Something For The Weekend
“At the time I was living quite a debaucherous lifestyle. And I wrote this record about a crazy summer in London.
