»An innovative figure when it comes to global club culture,« as Truants put it, DJ Plead is known for his percussive sound, influenced by traditional Lebanese wedding music and Middle Eastern rhythms. An in-demand producer and DJ, he has released music via Livity Sound, Nervous Horizon, and his own Sumac label. »Please« is a cool composite of the Lebanese artist’s distinctive musical palette, blending the techno, house, and dub of the club with the dabke, mijwiz, and shaabi keys of a Levantine dancing circle.

»Please« follows Beeler’s 2020 record »Relentless Trills«, released as part of Boomkat’s Documenting Sound series. »Relentless Trills« was a revelation that moved beyond Beeler’s hard-drum bangers into a more ambient spray of his trademark percussion and serpentine maqam melodies. »Please« is an even more intimate proposition, its cover featuring a cropped shot of Beeler holding a cup of coffee in one hand, belongings in the other. It’s a deeply personal depiction of the everyday that echoes the unhurried emotional resonance of the album.

»I’m not fully comfortable releasing these tracks. I do feel vulnerable,« says Beeler, who credits Smalltown Supersound label boss Joakim Haugland as vital to realising »Please«. The album was gleaned from a folder of 120 demos and sketches made between 2023 and 2025, after Beeler had already written an album that he ended up scrapping. »I doubt that without him pulling them out of the folder those demos would ever have been heard by anyone.«

These tender steps outside Beeler’s aesthetic comfort zone of control and function, towards unfiltered exposure, produce an exciting tension. »Please« expertly approaches that obscure point between the detached and the sentimental, where the mundane, the specific, and the lightly absurd meet the deeply felt and genuinely moving.