Andy Cato

Groove Armada’s Andy Cato has announced a photographic exhibition at The Book Club in London to mark the release of his new solo album, ‘Times & Places’, forthcoming on Apollo Records. The exhibition will open on Thursday April 25 with a private view followed by a public event featuring DJ sets from Andy Cato and Geddes. 

Running until June 25, the ‘Times & Places’ exhibition will be housed in The Book Club’s basement and will feature the short films and photography that are intrinsic to the album. Each of the exhibited works is a visual document of the past 20 years of British dance music culture, viewed through the lens of someone who’s seen first hand its many twists, reconfigurations and rebirths.

‘Times & Places’ was largely recorded ‘on the road’ - on tour buses, in airport lounges and beyond - over the course of the past 20 years (the first track is from 1993). The process of pulling together the fragmented tracks for the album meant digging through piles of cassettes, eight-track tapes, and withered floppy disks, sometimes re-recording the distorted pieces of music captured long ago on dusty C90s. This same process dug up a range of old photographs, rolls of film and 8 mm footage, most of which had lain undiscovered, but can now be viewed by the public for the first time. 

Beginning with pre-Criminal Justice Act Britain and Castlemorton, the warehouse parties in pre-rebirth East London, and the mid-90s dance boom to early GA forays here and abroad, the album follows him through DJ gigs in front of 100,000 people and the Coca Cola-sponsored stages of the reborn US EDM scene, right up to the present era as a recent signing to cult underground house label, Hypercolour.

The 18 track ‘Times & Places’ album of original works will be released in a hardbook CD package on April 29 on R&S’ imprint, Apollo Records, home to the likes of Aphex Twin, Biosphere, Model 500, Sun Electric and new signings Submerse, Shadow Child and Synkro.