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Artist:
Blue Hour

Title:
Selva

Label:
Blue Hour Music

Cat#:
BLUEHOURLP001

Release Date:
10th April 2026

Format:
CD, limited vinyl, vinyl, download & streaming

Tracklist:
A1.
Arrival

A2.
Hidden Passage

B1.
Crimson Delta

B2.
The Chase

C1.
Lost Beneath The Leaves

C2.
Dreamscape

D1.
Submerged

D2.
Portal

Press Info:
Blue Hour distills over a decade of artistry into his debut album ‘Selva’, unearthing eight tracks inspired by ancient wisdom and forgotten worlds.

Blue Hour is the moniker of Luke Standing, a multifaceted artist, producer, and label owner navigating between past and present electronic dance music. Over more than a decade, Standing has built a career balancing transformative craft with a sharp curatorial approach, earning him respect across the global scene. After years of sonic experimentation, he now releases his debut LP Selva. “I never set out to make an LP – it just wrote itself,” he says. “I followed my intuition, and the music found its own path.”

Born and raised in the UK, Standing grew up in parallel with club culture, moving between Brighton, Bristol and Berlin while running club nights and establishing himself under former aliases Furesshu and Esoteric. He launched his Blue Hour project in late 2013, shortly after relocating to Berlin. Initially a platform for his own music, Blue Hour quickly became a collaborative hub, blurring the lines between personal output and curation. Over time, Standing has cultivated an international ecosystem of like-minded artists while continuously expanding his own sonic horizons.

Selva marks his first full-length studio album, weaving a lifetime of influences into a cohesive narrative inspired by ancient wisdom and forgotten worlds. The eight-track double LP transforms his inner dialogue into a subconscious story pulling inspiration from a labyrinthine network of influence and experience. “I followed the music obsessively, reflecting and refining until the story revealed itself,” Standing explains. “To me, the LP evokes Amazonian or Mayan jungles, themes of exploration, the mysteries of the natural world, wisdom passed down through generations. I didn’t set out to write about these things consciously, they just emerged on their own.” he adds.

The album was shaped through intensive work in his studio and periods spent in tropical locations. Listening closely, Selva unfolds like a modern ceremony: the opening tracks channel his early UK dance influences, shifting into blends of traditional and contemporary techno, then expanding into melodic soundscapes before concluding with transcendental textures and atmospheres. The result is an introspective journey where functionality and emotive storytelling coexist, revealing a depth in Blue Hour we haven’t heard before.

Whether performing, curating, or producing, Standing operates with a deep commitment to sound, culture, and collaboration. More than an artist, he is an architectural thinker of what electronic music could become. “Every release is my own metamorphosis,” he says. “This LP reflects my current form, and I’m curious to see what the next chapter brings.” Few artists can unify a lifetime of genre-spanning influences into a sound as sharp and focused. On Selva, Blue Hour does exactly that, opening a new era of deeper immersion from his Berlin-based label.

Snippets:

Full Track Streaming:
“Portal

“Hidden Passage”

“Dreamscape”

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Websites:
Blue Hour @ Instagram (Artist)
Blue Hour Music @ Facebook (Label)

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