{"id":544,"date":"2016-03-11T10:25:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T10:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/?p=544"},"modified":"2024-05-08T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T17:00:31","slug":"virtue-soul-method-take-me-higher-album-sampler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/2016\/03\/11\/virtue-soul-method-take-me-higher-album-sampler\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtue &#038; Soul Method &#8211; Take Me Higher (Album Sampler)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/2016\/03\/11\/virtue-soul-method-take-me-higher-album-sampler\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/2016\/03\/11\/virtue-soul-method-take-me-higher-album-sampler\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/BETA049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"attachment noopener wp-att-540\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-540\" src=\"http:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/orange-add-to-cart-button-with-credit-cards-300x104.png\" alt=\"Add To Cart\" width=\"300\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/orange-add-to-cart-button-with-credit-cards-300x104.png 300w, https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/orange-add-to-cart-button-with-credit-cards.png 368w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Support the Artist &amp; Buy mp3\/WAV direct from our label: <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/BETA049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/j.mp\/BETA049<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apple Music\/iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/music.apple.com\/gb\/album\/a-soundtrack-of-two-lives\/1286374200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.smarturl.it\/BETA049<\/a><br \/>\nSpotify: <a href=\"http:\/\/j.mp\/BETA049Sptfy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/j.mp\/BETA049Sptfy<\/a><br \/>\nAll Digital Download\/Streaming links: <a href=\"https:\/\/BetaRecordings.lnk.to\/BETA049\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/BetaRecordings.lnk.to\/BETA049<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/virtuedrumandbass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/virtuedrumandbass\/<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mr_virtue1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/mr_virtue1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/playlists\/195167499&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stories&#8230; Young UK drum &amp; bass artist Virtue has plenty to share.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly there&#8217;s the tale of his album. A tailored narrative throughout his debut long player; each cut is a short vignette. Pieced together to take you through an all-too-familiar relationship hurricane from first sight to last fight, Virtue understands the essential album equation: 12 bangers do not equal an album with longevity or substance.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he guides us through the emotional twists and turns of a relationship cycle with subtle sonic twists, subgenres, melodic motifs, detailed drumwork and silky mixdowns on each track: from the sweet liquid love story opener of <strong>Blow My Mind VIP<\/strong> right through to the poignant piano-laced post-split future-gazing of <strong>Winner Takes It All<\/strong> by way of the full-pelt dynamic bass guilty bitterness of <strong>The Secret<\/strong> and every emotion in between. All the while keeping a stern eye on the dancefloor, ensuring each production&#8217;s purpose and direction isn&#8217;t lost in the concept.<\/p>\n<p>Second is the story of how he was signed to John B&#8217;s Beta Recordings. After a clutch of releases on labels such as Multifunction, E-Motion and Influenza, he blindly sent <strong>Blow My Mind<\/strong> to John B knowing the lilting pianos and warm soaring bass would resonate with the Beta Recordings founder. John loved it so much he opened one of his heavily-subscribed podcast episodes with it&#8230; Leaving Virtue a surprise AIM the day the podcast dropped. They started talking albums straight away.<\/p>\n<p>Finally we have the story of his roots: following the well-known likes of Callide, Voltage, Decimal Bass and Konichi, Virtue is yet another successful alumni of Gloucester&#8217;s thriving D&amp;B scene. Collaborating with local agenda-setters, he was part of the not-for-profit label Stilla Audio and regularly representing on the city&#8217;s community radio station GFM since 2009, 25-year-old Virtue&#8217;s rise is classically informed and old school: from passionate DJ to skilled producer with a real understanding of dancefloors, he&#8217;s developed his way through the local ranks and is now ready to take on the world. It&#8217;s already happening&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>His life-changing off-chance Beta demo didn&#8217;t just make it to John B&#8217;s podcast, it also made number one on the 1Xtra Drum &amp; Bass chart for two weeks running.<\/p>\n<p>Virtue: a man with a real promise, an album with a real purpose, a sound with real dynamism. <strong>A Soundtrack Of Two Lives<\/strong> is the tale of an aspiring, highly talented artist who&#8217;s spent years waiting to tell his story&#8230; Are you listening?<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/2016\/03\/11\/virtue-soul-method-take-me-higher-album-sampler\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/2016\/03\/11\/virtue-soul-method-take-me-higher-album-sampler\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Support the Artist &amp; Buy mp3\/WAV direct from our label: http:\/\/j.mp\/BETA049 Apple Music\/iTunes: http:\/\/www.smarturl.it\/BETA049 Spotify: http:\/\/j.mp\/BETA049Sptfy All Digital Download\/Streaming links: https:\/\/BetaRecordings.lnk.to\/BETA049 https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/virtuedrumandbass\/ https:\/\/twitter.com\/mr_virtue1 Stories&#8230; Young UK drum &amp; bass artist Virtue has plenty to share. Firstly there&#8217;s the tale <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/2016\/03\/11\/virtue-soul-method-take-me-higher-album-sampler\/\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,55,54,4,310],"tags":[316,186,315,314,176,312,313,311],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","category-betadiscography","category-catalogue","category-newreleases","category-virtue","tag-deep-house","tag-drum-bass","tag-liquid-funk","tag-part-time-models","tag-remix","tag-soul-method","tag-take-me-higher","tag-virtue"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":955,"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions\/955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beta-recordings.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}