French Paddleboat

French Paddleboat was the single guise of youthful digital auteur Scott August, who also served as one-half from the duo Vote Automatic robot. A native from the bucolic United kingdom Columbia city of Kelowna, August have been producing house recordings of digital music since his early teenager years. Although his primary inspirations originated from the avant-garde world — digital experimenters from Stockhausen to art-rockers Can to glitch pioneers Oval — his very own solo work frequently sported a larger synth-pop influence, and several from the analog comfort of Planks of Canada, along with a low-key attraction commensurate using its bedroom roots. As French Paddleboat, August started issuing a number of the materials in the middle-‘90s on cassette-only produces for the Granted Passing label, you start with Constantinople. His second work Rome Loves Tan was documented during the period of 1997, and highlighted some live acoustic instrumentation (vibes, percussion, clarinet) alongside the synths and sampled loops. When August’s use Kevin Rivard in Vote Automatic robot started to get some good attention, August ultimately came back to Rome Loves Tan, retooling and tensing the original monitors for the limited-edition, vinyl-only reissue on Catsup Dish in 2002. French Paddleboat’s initial CD release appeared on Scratch Information by means of 1999’s Conversions in Metric, which have been documented in 1997.