dr sleep on guitar and synth. campbell on keytar and beats also some cutting on the turntables.
Influences
electrelane. phillip glass. giorgio moroder. gary numan. blue light curtain. dntel. julie ruin. the postal service. stereo total. bedroom productions. soundtracks. the go team! yo la tengo. tangerine dream. kraftwerk. ratatat. m83. mogwai. 10cc. omd - dazzle ships. filmmakers. artists. diy'rs. crafty folk. mix tape maniacs.
Sounds Like
luke carmody, publishing industry mogul says: "paperboats is the aural equivalent of all heaven's cherubs dipped in first kisses dancing in my ears wearing tap shoes made of babies giggles." dr sleep's dad says: "sounds like i'm flying." dr sleep's mom says: "i never should've let you quit those piano lessons. you could be so much better by now." campbell's mom says: "OH you girls, this is just some neat, neat music. how fun for you gals!" illcutyou says: "sounds like swans dying on the beach." monster says: "this is boring. where's the singer?" sandra bernhard says: "if i didn't hate madonna so much for stealing ingrid, i'd send her your demo right away!" stevie nicks says: "i never would've done blow if i'd have heard this music." kraftwerk says: "you had us at auf wedersehn." also, "wir wollen Liebe zu Ihnen machen." lcd soundsystem says: "i'm truly losing my edge. and to these two boy-ladies! but, they're actually really, really nice. but, i was still at the first can show in cologne."
UPDATE: New website and DVD coming! The DVD is a compilation of all the film scores we have made for Madcat and Converse, also a slide show of March 3rd GO at Varnish Gallery, and a music video by Monster.
Campbell and Dr. Sleep combine their love for soundtracks, electronic music, sampling, found sounds, vintage synthesizers, drum machines, ambiance, and 70s rock to make lush atmospheric soundscapes that are both fragile and anthemic.
In the beginning, Cooper Bombardier requested the use of our music as a backdrop to his spokenword for his national tour. I
n the Summer of 2004 we won a Converse ad contest with two friends and filmmakers. For that project, we created a short 32-second score for a hand-etched film (the artist hand-etched all 400-plus frames with a microscope and Exacto knife).
From there, we were approached by the MadCat Film Festival to do an original score to French feminist director Germaine Dulac's 1923 narrative silent film, "The Smiling Madame Beudet." In 2005, we were approached by Madcat again, this time to score live sound to experiment films by Emily Richardson ("Redshift") and Rose Lowder ("Bouquets 1-10").
The cassette tape and cd of these recordings was released Oct. 20.
In Fall 2005 we went on The Heartland tour with Katastrophe from San Francisco to Austin then up to Minneapolis for HOMOCORE.
In March of 2006 We were asked to be in Go! (a collaborative installation art project (check them out on myspace). We were teamed up with writer Kevin Hobson and artist Francie Miller, the one time event was on March 3rd at Varnish Gallery.
Our installation concept was "Neither Here, Nor There." Our soundscape for this event combines found sound samples and sampled acoustic space, the inbetween parts of recordings and music fragments. We produced a 11 minute loop which is called "Neither Here" and also a 3 minute darker version with a moog prodigy called "Nor There", that was performed live.
Many of our shows we perform with a live artist, the picture of the projection is from our December 2005 show with The Notes from Tuscon (check them out....so beautiful) where we had Laurel Stewart drawing live to our set.
got plans this saturday? if not, we beseech you to come watch us share the stage with philadelphia's insanely talented PATTERN IS MOVEMENT at the BIKE KITCHEN. seriously, this show is going to be unreal.
that's:
Pattern Is Movement
Parker Street Cinema
Worker Bee
SATURDAY, MARCH 29
7:00pm - 10:00pm
THE BIKE KITCHEN
1256 Mission @ Laskie
Just a quick reminder that our new record drops next week... join us at the Rickshaw in SF to celebrate?
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5 The Rickshaw Stop, 155 Fell, SF
9:00PM, 21+ $8
w/Excuses For Skipping and French Miami ****Boxcar Theatre benefit! Presented by our friends at Wiretapmusic.com****
Let me know if you need any extra help polishing your sound. I'm a one man operation and will respond to you personally. I have an offer where I'll mix and master one of your previously recorded tracks for free to show you what I can do - no strings attached. You'd be surprised what the right pair of ears can do. Get your stuff recorded somewhere else if you must, but save the mixing/mastering. You just might end up paying less for more. Click here for more info, and check out what other bands have said in my comment section!!
what a lot of fun. quite a lot of perfectly civilized individuals here. lovely, lovely indeed. what our confused friend here is trying to say is good show last night.
jess and i wanted to come see you and katastrophe in kc last night, but we both got off work at 6 and i really don't think we would have made it. but we wanted to.
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