The waters have been tested, the setting secured, the mission articulated and the blueprint applied. After successfully resurrecting Boston’s venerated weekly, “Life,” from it’s adored resting place in the annals of sentimental reverence, Slow to Speak’s Francis Englehardt & Paul Nickerson have announced their intention of once again marching on their city of birth, determined to secure their hometown permanently for the monthly commencement of celebratory rite, social experimentation & musical investigation. Having solidified their implantation in the cultural epicenter of NYC with the continuing success of their exclusive label Slow to Speak, as well as Brooklyn’s own esoteric bookstore and underground dance record shop, Dope Jams, lifelong comrades and musical partners Englehardt & Nickerson prepare themselves for their next artistic endeavor, a rebirth and creative expansion of their previous successes, the newest chapter in their storied creative trajectory: “Afterlife.”

With veteran promoter Chris DeOrio at their side and armed with their ever-expanding aural vocabulary from which to overwhelm the senses and secure the confidence and minds of their audience, Englehardt & Nickerson set out to prove that from the debris of one creative venture springs the driving fuel of a wholly new endeavor, drawing on their past triumphs while fixing their gaze straightforward to the future of music culture and underground club community. While “Life” thrived on the plush atmospherics of the upscale lounge, “Afterlife” will commence in the raw, less than aristocratic setting fitted for the new egalitarianism, unconcerned with the plush superfluity of bourgeois lavishness. Conversely, the sound system will not be lacking: imported straight from the analog extravagances of NYC DJ circles. Revisiting previously successful techniques, reexamining, reinvigorating and revolutionizing the formulas that made Boston club culture so thrilling and refreshing, critically engaging them and laboriously improving upon their own self-made and inimitably individual aesthetic in the hopes of delivering Boston nightlife to the next frontier of creative prospect.

No one style or sound will dominate “Afterlife,” and while dance music will compose the underlying practical approach of their sound, every resonance and reverberation of objective appeal and creative exceptionality will be playfully explored with the steady expertise of the alchemist’s hand, assembling contrasting musical traditions and aural impressions, mixing and matching with iconoclastic belligerence and the youthful excitement of two individuals still living their passions in word & deed. And so, Englehardt & Nickerson gather their forces and push forward to the gates of their beloved creative homeland, fire in their bellies and aspirations of grandeur in their hearts and minds, prepared to do whatever it takes to provide the most compelling aesthetic and aural haven for those hungry for more than the superficial regularity of desireless leisure that pervades much of the recreational landscape of today.