In an era of remixes saturating multiple channels—from mainstream music media to clubs and bars—some can only stomach dance music as part of the nightlife experience. For others, it’s living and breathing. Kurt Kirton is one of the latter. A former small town boy from central Mississippi, he cut his teeth on the smooth grooves of the 70s and the synth-infused 80s.
While both decades were musically unique, the early 90s produced a fast-evolving genre in the US that had first taken flight in Europe. It was then that Kirton’s love of dance/club music was born. People in a Box (2000-2010) was his first iteration as a dance act. After stepping back from music for 5 years to work on other projects Bang the Drums, the first full INEVITABLE album, was born.
Like most songwriters, Kirton started on new songs March of 2020 to pass time during the height of the pandemic. “There was barely a break between working the Bang the Drums album and writing for this new one! But I had logged ideas for each of the new songs already and fleshed them out from there,” he explains.
INEVITABLE is now Kirton at the helm—producing, writing, recording, and singing on the majority of the songs, friend & keyboardist Jason Beetz as his right hand man, and guest vocalists and programmers rounding out the process.
Kurt has an enduring passion and knack for covering hooky, melodic, lesser known tracks as well as writing his own original material—a formula that’s proven successful. Utopia, the new album, is two covers, eight originals, and two remixes—one of a song he wrote for People in a Box and the other with Syrian EDM artist SwitchYa. Encouragement, relationships, and fun continue to be lyrical themes.
“Putting together a full INEVITABLE album is a long painstaking process, so it’s amazing and so satisfying when its finally complete. To have every song be at the level I want as far as quality and production, it took a little longer than I’d hoped this time, but it shows in what listeners will hear. As usual, I want every song to be as catchy and compelling as possible—no filler or throwaway tracks!”
“Electronic music on pop radio has changed since the early 2010’s. You won’t hear much clubby stuff today, but there’s still an electronica edge to some of the pop out there now. A couple of my new tracks are this style. But, as typical for my music, upbeat songs comprise the majority of the Utopia album,” he says with a grin.
INEVITABLE’s mission remains: Produce compelling, energetic electronic music that moves the spirit and feet of listeners—domestic or international—and to just have fun and enjoy the creative process along the way.
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