With Forever Jan Pt. 1, Hamburg / Berlin-based producer Basch opens the vault on two decades of music-making, bringing together six tracks written and recorded between 2005 and 2025. The material comes from a personal “lost and found” of nearly 50 sketches — fragments rediscovered on old hard drives, MP3s from long-gone sessions, and live recordings from makeshift setups.

Each track carries its own history: a piece started on a cracked Reason 3 during a flight from Oslo; an early Hamburg live set held together by a synth demo that crashed every five minutes; a song revived from nothing but a low-bitrate MP3; and a 2005 video edit faithfully recreated, glitches and all. For this release, some arrangements were rebuilt, drums replayed on a 808, and soft synths replaced by analog gear.

Mastering by Stefan Eichinger aka Lopazz ties the years together into a single, coherent listen — less a traditional album, more a snapshot scrapbook of 20 years in sound. Compiled by Simon Ferdinand.