Django Django are back with new music. The UK four-piece have shared the first segment of their four-part album Off Planet, with the full 21-track project to be released on June 16 via Because Music.
The kaleidoscopic album strays from 2021's Glowing in the Dark, which saw just one guest contribution. Off Planet will feature nine collaborations, covering genres from pop to Afro-acid and Middle Eastern cabaret goth. The band's co-founder Dave Maclean conceived of the project as a channel for the band to experiment with new rhythms, voices and identities.
A nostalgic blend of hip-hop and house music, new single "Complete Me" with Self Esteem sets the tone perfectly as the lead single for Off Planet, on which no two songs sound the same.
"The instrumental for 'Complete Me' was made sometime in 2020 or 21 when the world was in lockdown and I was making music in my garden shed studio. It was a dance track that I didn't really know what to do with," said Maclean. "I sent it to Rebecca (Self Esteem) and she loved the vibe of it and really quickly came up with some vocal ideas that kind of stuck straight away and locked well with the track. The production was inspired by a lot of '90s breakbeat house and hip-house records that I've always been really into and loved DJing with over the years."
Off Planet's next parts will come in five- and six-song segments leading up to the final release.
For now, check out "Complete Me" and the first quarter of Off Planet below, where you can also find the album's full tracklisting.
Off Planet:
1. Wishbone
2. Complete Me feat. Self Esteem
3. Osaka
4. Hands High feat. Refound*
5. Lunar Vibrations feat. Isabelle Woodhouse
6. Don't Touch That Dial feat. Yuuko
7. Back to Back feat. Patience
8. Squid Inc
9. Come Down
10. Golden Cross
11. No Time feat. Jack Penate
12. A New Way Through
13. Galaxy Mood feat. Toya Delazy
14. The Oh Zone
15. Dead Machine feat. Stealing Sheep
16. Dumb Drum
17. Fluxus
18. Slipstream
19. Who You Know feat. Bernardo
20. Black Cadillac
21. Gazelle
The kaleidoscopic album strays from 2021's Glowing in the Dark, which saw just one guest contribution. Off Planet will feature nine collaborations, covering genres from pop to Afro-acid and Middle Eastern cabaret goth. The band's co-founder Dave Maclean conceived of the project as a channel for the band to experiment with new rhythms, voices and identities.
A nostalgic blend of hip-hop and house music, new single "Complete Me" with Self Esteem sets the tone perfectly as the lead single for Off Planet, on which no two songs sound the same.
"The instrumental for 'Complete Me' was made sometime in 2020 or 21 when the world was in lockdown and I was making music in my garden shed studio. It was a dance track that I didn't really know what to do with," said Maclean. "I sent it to Rebecca (Self Esteem) and she loved the vibe of it and really quickly came up with some vocal ideas that kind of stuck straight away and locked well with the track. The production was inspired by a lot of '90s breakbeat house and hip-house records that I've always been really into and loved DJing with over the years."
Off Planet's next parts will come in five- and six-song segments leading up to the final release.
For now, check out "Complete Me" and the first quarter of Off Planet below, where you can also find the album's full tracklisting.
Off Planet:
1. Wishbone
2. Complete Me feat. Self Esteem
3. Osaka
4. Hands High feat. Refound*
5. Lunar Vibrations feat. Isabelle Woodhouse
6. Don't Touch That Dial feat. Yuuko
7. Back to Back feat. Patience
8. Squid Inc
9. Come Down
10. Golden Cross
11. No Time feat. Jack Penate
12. A New Way Through
13. Galaxy Mood feat. Toya Delazy
14. The Oh Zone
15. Dead Machine feat. Stealing Sheep
16. Dumb Drum
17. Fluxus
18. Slipstream
19. Who You Know feat. Bernardo
20. Black Cadillac
21. Gazelle
