Name: Confusing Mix Of Nations
Brand: CMON

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

18492312811

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Colour

Black

Colour details

Discogs ID

MXSU231281.1

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Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

2020-04-03

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Redeye

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

184923128116

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Total Cap

1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

CMON

Genre US

Rock-Pop

Label US

Mexican Summer

<i>Confusing Mix of Nations </i>is the debut album from CMON, the Los Angeles pairing of Josh da Costa and Jamen Whitelock, the duo formerly at the helm of Regal Degal. Each of the LP’s ten tracks reads like a postcard from a different aesthetic era. It’s an album of pop ambition that understands “pop” to be a state of mind, not a state of sales: It’s the deceptively deep sound that goes straight to your body. 

As Regal Degal mounted its final tour, with clubs pushing their set times earlier and earlier to make space for the DJs who followed da Costa and Whitelock took notes. “We were definitely getting swept further from where we wanted to be and the excitement we wanted to portray,” Whitelock says. “There’s such joy in going out and dancing that was completely missing in a lot of shows, especially in New York. Nobody wants to move, everyone’s too self-conscious. But when you go to the club, everyone’s in it—you just want to dance, and that’s all that matters.” 

The community potential and the promise of physical liberation that came with dance music spoke loudly to both da Costa and Whitelock, and following the dissolution of Regal Degal, da Costa set up a new life for himself in Los Angeles—a steady relationship, a pet bird, a car—and got down to work with a copy of Ableton. Back in New York, his head spun by <b>DJ Rashad</b>, Whitelock was learning to program, too. They kept their line of communication open, and eventually Whitelock started making the cross-country trek to work and record with his old bandmate. They mined the sound they established with Regal Degal, applying their old band’s heavy atmospherics and melancholy soul to four-on-the-floor rhythm grids and smoothed-out guitar lines, taking production cues from EBM and AOR in equal measure. 

Confusing Mix Of Nations

Music US