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When John Maus (never to end up being confused using the John Maus of Walker Brothers popularity) wasn’t performing keyboards for Pet Collective, Panda Carry, and Haunted Graffiti, he was composing and saving his own hermetic, experimental, and quite often misunderstood compositions. Sketching on performers like David Bowie, Scott Walker, …

Led by crooning frontman Samuel T. Herring, the associates of Upcoming Islands began producing electropop music jointly in 2003 while participating in East Carolina University’s artwork plan. Along with Herring, the original associates of the group had been Adam Beeby, William Cashion, Gerrit Welmers, and Kymia Nawabi, plus they performed …

Developing a collage of psychedelic noises pop with disembodied voices, Baltimore duo Videohippos are led by Kevin O’Meare (drums, vocals, keyboard) and Jim Triplett (guitar, vocals, keyboard). Both have performed music together because the past due ’90s in a variety of groups, beginning in Washington, D.C. Since building Videohippos around …

Coolly atmospheric without having to be icy, Nine Pound Darkness walk a delicate line between indie-electronic and Baroque indie-pop. The Berkeley, California-based duo, made up of brothers Breandain and Christopher Langlois, agreed upon with Risk Mouse’s fledgling 30th Hundred years Information, in 2016. Early the next season, the duo released …

William Cashion of Potential Islands and Bruce Willen of Increase Dagger formed the ambient duo Peals within their house town of Baltimore in early 2012. Both multi-instrumentalists place their punky, indie rock and roll sensibilities aside on this task, concentrating rather on atmospheric loops. After making a website which cleverly …

Operating while both a music and artwork task, Los Angeles-based Young & Sick and tired is the idea of Dutch designer Nick Vehicle Hofwegen. Before releasing some of his music, Vehicle Hofwegen 1st became known in the look industry creating recording covers for main works like Foster individuals and Maroon …

Canadian electronic artwork pop group Majical Cloudz began as the single task of Devon Welsh. His home-recorded lo-fi synth pop tests and danceable pop music produced during 2010-2011 had been gathered and released by Arbutus Information in 2011 as II. The record featured visitor vocals from labelmate Clare Boucher (aka …

Gerrit Welmers, key pad participant/programmer for Baltimore-based synth pop group Long term Islands, records single instrumental work beneath the name Moss of Aura. These recordings feature wealthy, shiny melodies that are joyous however somewhat melancholy, along with solid midtempo beats. Welmers 1st began documenting music as Moss of Aura in …