Glenn Morrison, Tone Of Arc – Arrive To Depart on Fall From Grace Records

Fall From Grace Records adds “Arrive To Depart” by Glenn Morrison, Tone Of Arc to its catalog — 2 tracks of stripped-back techno (raw / deep / hypnotic) for serious DJs. Spanning 120–132 BPM across its 2 tracks, this release gives DJs flexible tempo options for different set moments.

Arrive To Depart – Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) Release Details

Behind the Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) : Release Notes

There’s a strain of dance music collaboration that doesn’t get built so much as summoned – two artists whose entire creative DNA seems engineered for the eventual collision, and when it finally happens, the result hits with the inevitability of weather rather than the calculation of a business deal. Glenn Morrison is one half of that equation, a Toronto-bred, classically-trained pianist whose twenty-plus years in house music have left fingerprints on multiplatinum records, Juno nominations, and a label empire built from nothing but taste and persistence. The other half is Derrick Boyd, the man behind Tone Of Arc – thirty years deep into life as a record producer, DJ, musician, and performer, with deep/tech house as his backbone, though calling him simply a producer undersells the operation. Tone Of Arc brings live instrumentation – guitar, bass, keys, full vocal performance – into a scene that too often forgets music can be played as much as programmed, drawing stage presence and sonic DNA from old-school provocateurs like Iggy Pop, The Clash, and Bowie. Two careers built on instinct over imitation, now colliding on wax. ‘Arrive To Depart’ is the sound of that collision rendered in warped, psychedelic frequencies – a two-track transmission that refuses to sit still inside genre lines, because neither artist behind it ever has. The A-side title track is a swirling, hallucinatory piece of deep techno house that bends and folds in on itself like a hall of mirrors lit by strobe – Morrison’s melodic architecture providing the gravitational center while Tone Of Arc’s restless, genre-agnostic instinct drags the track sideways into territory that feels lived-in rather than referenced. There’s a hypnotic disorientation built into the groove, the kind that doesn’t ask you to dance so much as it asks you to surrender, the low-end throbbing with the patient menace of a warehouse set somewhere past 4am when the room stops being a room and becomes something closer to a shared nervous system. Flip to ‘Other Defected’ and the energy shifts into something rawer, dirtier, more confrontational – a deep techno house cut that leans into distortion and warp with the same fearless improvisational spirit Boyd has always brought to the studio, where his process has historically been built on instinct over calculation – no thought, all improv, no samples, no excuses. That ethos bleeds through every corner of the B-side: it’s grittier, hungrier, built for rooms where the crowd wants friction rather than polish. Together the two tracks form a complete psychedelic statement – reverie on one side, defection on the other – and the international support tells you everything about how rare that combination actually is. When Pete Tong, Sasha & John Digweed, Seth Troxler, Luciano, Carl Cox, and Jamie Jones are all reaching for the same record from wildly different corners of the house and techno spectrum, that’s not coincidence – that’s the sound of a genuine consensus forming around something built honestly. What Morrison and Tone Of Arc represent, in the end, is the future of the underground precisely because they refuse to treat the past as a museum piece. Late-90s rave aestheticism doesn’t live in this record as costume or callback – it lives as structural memory, the DNA of warehouses and basements and the particular psychedelic abandon that defined a generation, reconstituted by two artists who learned that language early enough that it became instinct rather than reference. ‘Arrive To Depart’ isn’t a record asking permission to belong in the underground’s next chapter – it’s already writing it, one warped, hypnotic transmission at a time.

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Tracklist and Tempos

1. Glenn Morrison, Tone Of Arc – Arrive To Depart Original Mix

   Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) | 120 BPM | G Major | 9:46

2. Glenn Morrison, Tone Of Arc – Other Defected Original Mix

   Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) | 132 BPM | C Major | 6:33

2 Artists on This Techno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic) EP

Glenn Morrison 🇨🇦 · 42 releases

Glenn Morrison is a Toronto-based progressive house and techno producer who has held residencies at Space Miami, Space Ibiza, and Amnesia Ibiza. His music spans progressive house to raw techno across labels including Fall From Grace Records, Hooj Choons, and Timeless Moment.

Progressive HouseHouseTechno (Raw / Deep / Hypnotic)

Tone Of Arc 🇺🇸 · 24 releases

Tone Of Arc is a San Francisco duo consisting of producer and multi-instrumentalist Derrick Boyd and vocalist Zoe Presnick Boyd. The pair creates deep house, indie dance, and nu disco tracks for labels including Bar 25 Music, Om Records, and Fall From Grace Records.

Deep HouseHouseMelodic House & Techno