dolphin

Where, in the infinite void of cinematic ethers, late-night synthery and soon-to-be-timeless melodies do the influential draw their own inspirations from? Well, in the case of ‘Dolphin’ – Solarstone’s gravitational new single, its muse point couldn’t be more documented. And it’s nothing to do with aquatic mammals either. Inspiration, as they say, can strike in the oddest of places, and true to that, ‘Dolphin’ has had more than a dash of happenstance to its inception. Per Solarstone himself, the track’s “a loose cover” of JB Dunckel’s (one half of legendary downtempo French duo AIR) tune of the same name. It came via a stray sound fragment from a departure lounge TV, where, post-Luminosity, ‘Dolphin’s original had snagged Solarstone’s attention. “Sitting in Schiphol, I Shazam’d it; an