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What happens when classically-trained musicians go head-to-head with electronic instrumentation? Answer: a place where theory clashes happily with informed chaos.
Meet Virtual Boy: the duo comprised of Preston Walker and Henry Allen, two former music students from Chapman University. Recent grads studying under the infamous talent and mad scientist Steve Nalepa, they're part of the East L.A. scene that gave birth to the rise of other prominent electronic music artists like Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing, and The Glitch Mob.
Regulars at Low End Theory and promoters in their own right for a new project called Team Supreme, Virtual Boy are part of a movement that shakes up electronic music in a big way.
The self-titled album, released earlier this year, is a thoughtful and meticulously constructed blend of the old informing the new. Each song flows into the next, sequenced and with a particular movement in mind - not dissimilar from material of the classical variety. The album remains varied yet consistent. Songs like "Empty Place" are arresting from the start, grabbing one's attention with a deep bass line; while other tracks like "Memory of a Ghost" are haunting and slightly more textured.
The informed present of a musical past - the future is here.
You can grab a download of the first single from the album, "Memory of a Ghost," in addition to remixes of Grimes and more at their SoundCloud page.
"Virtual Boy" is out now on Alpha Pup Records.
Meet Virtual Boy: the duo comprised of Preston Walker and Henry Allen, two former music students from Chapman University. Recent grads studying under the infamous talent and mad scientist Steve Nalepa, they're part of the East L.A. scene that gave birth to the rise of other prominent electronic music artists like Flying Lotus, Nosaj Thing, and The Glitch Mob.
Regulars at Low End Theory and promoters in their own right for a new project called Team Supreme, Virtual Boy are part of a movement that shakes up electronic music in a big way.
The self-titled album, released earlier this year, is a thoughtful and meticulously constructed blend of the old informing the new. Each song flows into the next, sequenced and with a particular movement in mind - not dissimilar from material of the classical variety. The album remains varied yet consistent. Songs like "Empty Place" are arresting from the start, grabbing one's attention with a deep bass line; while other tracks like "Memory of a Ghost" are haunting and slightly more textured.
The informed present of a musical past - the future is here.
You can grab a download of the first single from the album, "Memory of a Ghost," in addition to remixes of Grimes and more at their SoundCloud page.
"Virtual Boy" is out now on Alpha Pup Records.
Streaming source:
http://soundcloud.com/virtualboy/memory-of-a-ghost-radio-edit
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