Tycho

Tycho (Scott Hansen) is really a producer and image artist located in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California. While Planks of Canada’s blissful/melancholic IDM can be an apparent inspiration, a lot of Tycho’s productions play out like comprehensive electronic wish pop music in isolation instead of vignettes or expanded mood parts. Tycho debuted in 2002 using the Research of Patterns, a self-released four-track EP. Sunrise Projector, his initial record, premiered in 2004 in the Gammaphone label. Following the record was re-released on Merck in 2006 beneath the name Past Is certainly Prologue, he resolved along with Ghostly International, where he released a trio of singles and EPs (“The Daydream,” “Adrift,” “Coastal Brake”) and supplied artwork and graphical design under his visible musician moniker, ISO50. Much like many Ghostly performers, Tycho’s music received very much exposure via Toon Network’s Adult Swim late-night development block and site, appearing as history and interstitial music through the network’s broadcasts and becoming included on compilations such as for example 2008’s Ghostly Swim. This year 2010, Hansen founded a full-band lineup of Tycho, including guitarist and bassist Zac Brownish, drummer Rory O’Connor, and bass guitarist/key pad participant Joe Davancens. The group became a remarkably popular live take action, appearing at several festivals in addition to headlining many sold-out trips. Tycho’s long-awaited full-length Dive showed up on Ghostly in 2011, and was well received. While focusing on materials and singles for his following LP, 2013 noticed the vinyl fabric reissue of Recent Is definitely Prologue on Ghostly. Awake, Tycho’s appropriate follow-up to Dive, premiered in early 2014, and was another achievement, charting at quantity 23 on Billboard’s Best 200 albums graph, a unique feat for an IDM recording. Following two even more years of continuous touring and graphical design function, Tycho released Awake Remixes on Ghostly in early 2016, with a fresh studio recording in the functions. Later that yr, the singles “Department” and “Epoch” preceded the full-length Epoch, that was provided a surprise discharge that Sept. The record was nominated for Greatest Dance/Electronic Album on the 2017 Grammy Honours.