Ancient Lasers

The Funn Machine Delivers at Do Lab’s Woogie Weekend

Woogie Weekend at the old home of Lightning In A Bottle (Silverado, CA) was quite an experience. The Funn Machine made a grand appearance and cooled down hot dancers & tossed out (and attracted) late-night eye candy every stage it wound up at. And it certainly retained it’s now-legendary “nexus of funn” as it bounced between stages at Woogie.

  Yet what started out as a 90-degree California…

NEW SONG: “Vines” by Ancient Lasers

Everybody Is Disappearing (Cypriot Vibez Remix)

I got a chance to team up with Aron Levi Djandash of MYTH on a remix for Everybody Is Disappearing by Ancient Lasers. I love the production style of slow, slightly off tempo beats and pitch-shifted, drunken vocals. More collaboration with Aron is in the works!

[soundcloud url="https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/210048764"…

Darkpine is an electro-pop/rock/ambient band that confidently shifts between sonic spaces rapidly within the span of their self-titled EP.  Their sound reminds me of Bastille or Foster The People, albeit a bit more lofi and 80’s. The drums are a blend of live and electronic, which can be a difficult effect to pull off, yet they manage to.  The stand-out track for me is Postcards, which makes me…

The Last Survivors’ Second Summer EP Review

The Last Survivors blend spacey electronica with lively guitar work and chipper vocals in a manner reminiscent of Stars and Death Cab For Cutie. Saying the production draws influence from M83 wouldn’t be far off either, although the mix is drier on reverb than the former. The Last Survivors would benefit from more out-of-the-box sounds and some bigger, more-real space between the performances and…