Mark Van Hoen shares video for "Shine" (featuring Rachel Goswell)
Mark Van Hoen
Shares video for “Shine”
(featuring vocals by Rachel Goswell)
From the new album The Eternal Present
Due out via Dell’Orso on 20 June 2025
Watch the video for “Shine” here
“From gently weaving melody to gale force rips and tears... The Eternal Present does a lot of borrowing, in fact, as ideas and connections from Van Hoen’s past continuously crop in thickly atmospheric tracks... These aren’t nostalgic references, but recognitions of his musical past flowing through the present moment.” Bleep
“There's so much soaring supremacy to revel in here, including the collaborative piece with Slowdive's Rachel Goswell which reworks her band's 'Shine' in stupefying fashion." Electronic Sound
Mark Van Hoen shares the new video for "Shine", a shimmering reinterpretation of Slowdive's 1992 dream pop classic, taken from his forthcoming album The Eternal Present (due out on 20 June via Dell'Orso).
The track features original vocals from Slowdive's Rachel Goswell, recorded in Mark's London studio in 1998 and deconstructed through GRM software manipulation. The haunting vocals become instruments themselves—serving as the primary source of melody and harmony against a rhythmic foundation.
The video was co-directed by Nico Van Hoen, shot over 12 hours in East London. She describes it as, “building a town within a city. The journey back slips into an odyssey of hope, a blanket of optimism smothers the skyline, and the lights guide the way home.”
An influential contemporary of Aphex Twin, Autechre, LFO and Boards of Canada, Van Hoen established himself in electronic music circles with his groundbreaking work as Locust in the mid-'90s, helping push post-rave electronic music into challenging new territories. Throughout his career, Van Hoen has engaged in numerous significant collaborations, including work with Nick Holton and Neil Halstead of Slowdive as Black Hearted Brother, whose album Stars Are Our Home was released in 2013.
"Shine" represents Van Hoen's musical past flowing organically through the present, reflecting the album’s theme of being in the present, transcending chronological time to create what he describes as a sonic experience that is simultaneously "spectral, ghostly, melodic, harmonic, and decayed."
Van Hoen’s new album The Eternal Present weaves together recordings spanning nearly three decades (1998-2024) into a timeless sonic tapestry. Each track captures distinct moments from different periods of his creative journey, with shifting life circumstances across decades generating a rich diversity of textures and sonic landscapes that flow seemlessly into his eternal present.
