Butane Debut Album & North America Tour

New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Butane Official Website) - Butane fires up a 4-week North American album tour to coincide with the release of his critically acclaimed debut album "Becoming", set to hit stores on March 17.

On his new album, Alphahouse head-honcho and American ex-pat Andrew Rasse aka Butane says, "Moving to Berlin around Christmas of last year kind of forced me to take a break from studio work, for nearly six months. This really enabled me to get some new perspective on my music. I was just collecting ideas and inspiration while I traveled around DJing in wonderfully unique places like Moscow, Cape Town, Detroit, Mexico City, Barcelona, and Berlin. Not worrying about finishing any music was something of a mental vacation for me.

I played live with Ableton twice - once in Berlin and once at DEMF in Detroit - and I was working all the time on small sketches for new tracks, but nothing more than that. Then when I came back to Berlin in June after Sonar, I slowed my travel schedule down and spent a lot of time reading philosophy and just generally enjoying the Berlin summer. When I finally took all the pent-up creative energy from those past six months into the studio with me to write the album, it all just came pouring out. I fine tuned it over the next few months, testing some of the tracks while out DJing, and this is the final result. I really wanted to present something a bit different than what I had done before, and approaching this as an album enabled me to do that. I feel like these tracks all somehow belong together. Hopefully this represents the next stage in the evolution of my music."

BUTANE NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES
March 14 - Minimoo, Miami www.minimoo-nyc.com
March 15 - Alphahouse, St. Louis
March 21 - Compression, Los Angeles
March 22 - Hardpop, Ciudad Juarez
March 29 - Minimoo, Miami Winter Music Conference Edition www.minimoo-nyc.com
April 5 - Oslo, Detroit