ZAFLON shares his pulsing new single ‘Till The Meds Wear Off (Let’s Dance)’
Having already found a fan in Mary Anne Hobbs, who has played his previous material on her BBC 6 Music show multiple times in recent months, South London-based producer Zaflon is back to his winning ways once again as he delivers his bouncing new single ‘Till The Meds Wear Off (Let’s Dance)’.
The track was written and produced during lockdown and due to finding himself held away from all his usual influences and guest vocalists, he chose to sing the hook on this one himself for the very first time. Breaking away from his standard convention, he feels that this new offering is a far more personal cut for his aesthetic, and sits as a very special release amongst his repertoire to date.
Speaking about his new single, he said, "I tried the vocals thing ages ago and was told by people who I respected to stick to production. In retrospect I'm surprised I listened but when you're young you're very impressionable and I let a few comments make me insecure rather than defiant especially as these were the same people praising my production. Recently I put a few things online of me singing. It started with a cover of The Racoons cartoon theme tune Run With Us.”
“I put it on my private Facebook just for fun so only my inner circle saw it and people loved it. I then got other singers who I work with telling me I should sing more. That is when it hit me; life's too short, the world could end tomorrow, I'm gonna sing now. I started trying out vocals and found that the sound I was producing for my instrumentals was not what I wanted to sing too. I then found myself reverting back to my early Electro EDM sound like when I was playing Keys for David E Sugar and we were supporting La Roux on tour but modernising it by combining it with with sounds and techniques that I'd picked up on the rest of my journey."
Watch the new video for ‘Till The Meds Wear Off (Let’s Dance)’ below.