- 2025-03-04
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MUSIC
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Wilkinson Premieres New Song “Back To Life” featuring Julia Church on BBC Radio 1
British DJ Wilkinson premiered a new song “Back To Life” on BBC Radio 1's New Music Show with Jack Saunders.
Onthe track, he teamed up with London-based singer-songwriter Julia Church for the first time.
For Wilkinson, the song is the first collaborative song of 2025.
Meanwhile, for Julia Church, the track is the second collaborative single of 2025, following All For You with Jaydon Lewis and SPINALL.
It was written by Julia Church, Mark Wilkinson, Olivia Sebastianelli, and Toby Scott. Produced by Wilkinson and Toby Scott.
Wilkinson told Jack Saunders about the song, “It's amazing. We wrote this a year ago. We did it over zoom, and it was amazing. And I heard Julia's voice before, and I just like, love her voice, and that style of vocals, just like lends itself to drum and bass. We kind of came up with an idea, and it was pretty quick. Toby Scott and Olivia Sebastianelli, amazing songwriters and then I kind of took it away. Got into a really good place, I feel kind of different. It's got triplet melody over a kind of straight beat, which is weird, but I think it just gives it a point of difference when it drops.”- Julia Church said, “I think it's quite what's nice about Back To Life. There's quite a big range. The verses are really like, low and quite gravelly, which I think works really well that like, lower base, all those base here. And then, the chorus, it's just like, super desperate and aching. So I think maybe it's just like the range, I think.”
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Wilkinson added, “I mean, I've always used to want to make like film music and stuff like that, and then my previous studio is in a film studio, so I was always kind of inspired by that. But I think with a song like this, we kind of had the basic backing track when you wrote the vocal and everything in the top line, and then I kind of stripped it all out, and I just kind of followed the vocal and like the emotion and the dynamic range and that. And I just wanted to create something that was just like complimentary, but then worked really well in the club. And I feel like, all the stuff I want to make at the moment, it has got that cinematic feel to it and it's like, it just gives the vocal space, I just feel like when I play it and I remember playing it for the first time and like looking at people. Just seeing the emotion on their face, it's just nice to be able to connect with even, I feel like that's really we wanna do drum and bass.”
Background photo by Rebecca Smale - source : BBC Radio 1
