There’s even her characteristic paintings on the cover. There are, of course, her rich synthesizers that wrap her tracks like velvet cloaks, providing the familiar warmth and colour we know from her work so far on labels such as Idle Hands and Future Times.
There's a kalimba, recorded at her father's home in Chile. There is her manipulated voice serving as a bedrock in tracks. More than that, Tangerine is an innate extension of Shanti’s self, telling stories beyond her record box and delving into her personal history. Tangerine is Celeste’s most fully-realised contribution thus far to this continuum of musical culture.
Here, whether in sweat-drenched basements or to vast numbers, she strikes a common cause between the melodic richness of the legacy of the music of Detroit, alongside the natural ease with which she carries across tempos that embody UK Soundsystem traditions. Beginning as a record store assistant at Idle Hands in Bristol and now a fixture of some of the world’s most acclaimed clubs and festivals, Celeste’s instincts and curiosity have forged a musical space that is very much her own. Tangerine serves as a coda to the qualities that have established Celeste as one of the most instinctive and generous underground DJs in the current landscape of dance music.
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