As the sole European member of L.A.'s WEDIDIT Collective, the Portugal-born Purple is almost duty-bound to romanticism. His fractured electronic tracks bleed with an appealing rawness; his vocals adding depth to the "fascination with darkness" that binds him to the rest of the production/DJ crew. Purple used to heavily shift and manipulate his vocals between feminine and masculine registers, playing around with the gender of his sound—that his FADER Mix is comprised entirely of female artists doesn't come out of nowhere. Purple melds voices as disparate as Nico and Bessie Smith in a drowsy synthesis: the female voice not as a category, but a spectrum. It's pleasing and surprising and pretty, so put it on.
