One of the most interesting releases on Whitelabel.net in recent times comes from BBE Records and Phantogram, a two piece band from New York.
Read on for more info and links to Whitelabel.net downloads.
Phantogram sounds like a band from the city. Electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, pop – each finds its way into their songs. Unexpectedly, the band doesn’t hail from a metropolis, but rather calls the town of Saratoga Springs, NY (population 26,186) home. Most people there, other than maybe some students at local Skidmore College (where fellow beat-experimenters Ratatat formed), have never heard of J. Dilla, My Bloody Valentine, or Serge Gainsbourg.
But Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, the duo that make up Phantogram and who grew up in the even smaller nearby municipality of Greenwich, have flourished in Saratoga. Both sonically and lyrically, the band references dreams to describe their own music and the process of making it: “We ran across a description of dreams somewhere that used the phrase ‘eyelid movies’ – and it really struck us both as something that fit our music,” notes Barthel, while Carter adds: “Daydreams, the spots you see moving around when your eyes are closed tight, and even the shapes you see in the world all surface when you feel your way through a Phantogram song.”
Not exactly your typical, run of the mill club music but I've been playing their stuff on my radio show to great response. Both the tracks that have been released on Whitelabel.net (Running From The Cops, When I'm Small) have BRILLIANT basslines and sit around the 97 and 92 BPM respectively, making them extremely versatile. I'm a fan - can't wait to hear some remixes!
Their EP "Running From the Cops" is available now from your favourite digital platforms - keep your ears open for their debut album "Eyelid Movies" which will be coming sometime in the late Nothern Hemisphere Summer.
We're working on it, Nik! I like this video too - I like the blurb that came with it even better, describing how it was all about this freak with a pig nose, dressed all in pink, carrying a bottle of swine flu looking angry and wanting to raise hell.
One of the most interesting releases on Whitelabel.net in recent times comes from BBE Records and Phantogram, a two piece band from New York.
Read on for more info and links to Whitelabel.net downloads.
Phantogram sounds like a band from the city. Electronic loops, hip-hop beats, shoegaze, soul, pop – each finds its way into their songs. Unexpectedly, the band doesn’t hail from a metropolis, but rather calls the town of Saratoga Springs, NY (population 26,186) home. Most people there, other than maybe some students at local Skidmore College (where fellow beat-experimenters Ratatat formed), have never heard of J. Dilla, My Bloody Valentine, or Serge Gainsbourg.
But Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, the duo that make up Phantogram and who grew up in the even smaller nearby municipality of Greenwich, have flourished in Saratoga. Both sonically and lyrically, the band references dreams to describe their own music and the process of making it: “We ran across a description of dreams somewhere that used the phrase ‘eyelid movies’ – and it really struck us both as something that fit our music,” notes Barthel, while Carter adds: “Daydreams, the spots you see moving around when your eyes are closed tight, and even the shapes you see in the world all surface when you feel your way through a Phantogram song.”
Not exactly your typical, run of the mill club music but I've been playing their stuff on my radio show to great response. Both the tracks that have been released on Whitelabel.net (Running From The Cops, When I'm Small) have BRILLIANT basslines and sit around the 97 and 92 BPM respectively, making them extremely versatile. I'm a fan - can't wait to hear some remixes!
Their EP "Running From the Cops" is available now from your favourite digital platforms - keep your ears open for their debut album "Eyelid Movies" which will be coming sometime in the late Nothern Hemisphere Summer.
Download Phantogram - Eyelid Movies Sampler.
Check out Phantogram's Myspace page here.
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