The Blank – “Burn (ft. Steffaloo)”

Aug 21, 2012 by Pasta Primavera

Perth’s The Blank (Henry Ascroft) and LA’s Steffaloo (Steph Thompson) collaborate on this new tune “Burn”, a track slowly strolls along the line between a deep meditative bounce and intense pounding lullaby. The Blank‘s hypnotizing beat leads you into the crush while Thompson’s lyrics match the vibe.

Ascroft tells of the song’s beginnings:

i guess i wanted to change up my original style, i wanted to approach it from a more hip hop/dupe angle
also i went through a few tracks i wasnt happy with, i wanted it to be just right,
so this track has been in my file set for weeks with me altering it and messing with it
and then yeh, i think i hit a sweet spot.
so then i sent it over to steph
and she worked her infinite magic!

Steffaloo elaborates a bit on how the collab came to be:

i came across “the blank” how i come across a lot of great producers out there, through my bro tim. he had liked, or posted, one of the blank‘s songs called “say it all“, and after one listen to it i knew i would love to do a song with him. so i wrote him haha. i was pretty excited that he was down for it and when he sent me the track i fell in love. it wasn’t like a lot of other tracks i’ve worked on. it had that deep bass line and was more of a dub/dupe type of track, so i wanted to make the lyrics about something other than love or missing someone haha.. i’d just watched this movie that kind of reminded me i was alive and made my heart feel like it was going to burst a little and so when i got home to work on this track the lyrics that came out were -

shake out all the dust that’s in your eyes
and you will see just fine
take out all the splinters in your mind
watch all the gears unwind
let the fires in your chest burn

burnnn

i think there’s so much that can get in the way sometimes of us really seeing life in all it’s fullness, so the idea of just clearing away the dust and splinters that can build up in our lives and keep us from feeling that burn in our chests for life was appealing to me. and the track really went along with sentiment because you can really feel it deep in your chest when that deep base line and pounding beat drop in. i loved it.