Ross From Friends remixes his own tracks, "Love Divide" and "The Knife” under Bubble Love alias

The new remxies include the tracks, “Love Divide”, from the 2021 album, Tread; and “The Knife” from his 2017 debut Family Portrait.

Originally conceived as a way of bridging the gap between the energy of the Ross From Friends Live shows and the late-night club DJ sets Weatherall was enjoying playing, much of the initial music that would eventually become Bubble Love was written spontaneously and fast — in stark contrast to the meticulous production that goes into the mainline Ross From Friends output — and often played out to fans the same day it was written.

“This was super fun initially, being able to just fire stuff out at the last second and watch people go ape,” says Weatherall. “That pure fury and rawness is, to me, what a lot of dance music is all about.”

At the same time though, he found himself struggling with what he felt was the “hollow” nature of making music this way. “Quite a massive part of me eventually found making things disposable like that really meaningless,” he says. “I felt like I was abandoning a side of me that loved spending time working on details, and loved to try and think really hard about certain parts of tunes.”