When dynamic vocally-based music made a comeback between 2007-09 with Bon Iver , Fleet Foxes , Grizzly Bear , so did the art form of the remix, which relies heavily on reconstructing the music of an established lyrical platform. Cue stutter-step also spawned from this era – characterised by Nosaj Thing and Baths , who combined it with the Salem scene to create what’s known today as Glitch-Hop.
One artist who has benefited immensely from the consolidation in the blogosphere was Teen Daze , who is only known in interviews as ‘Jamison from Fraser Valley’, a few hours outside of Vancouver. After Teen Daze made a name for himself for the beach dream pop song ‘ ’, it was his new found success on remixes using the cue stutter-step technique that altered his image quickly into the direction of ‘ ’, that blended Tycho ’s blessed out mentality with more traditional Four Tet keyboard looping.
Despite failing to collect enough diversity to capture a listener’s attention for the EPs and one full length that followed, he’s been a reliable online go to guy for innocently blissing out and forgetting his style isn’t all that interesting anymore.
Until a couple days ago when he released ‘ Light & Love ‘ to save money and raise awareness for the support of Benjamin Curtis from School Of Seven Bells who is battling life threatening cancer. It’s hard to tell if he recorded the song after hearing the news or not, but there’s a feeling here that Teen Daze has woken up and realised there’s most important matters in life than online success. The keyboard loop is buried in a subaqueous thought process of concern until it all hits home, hard, together at the end.
‘ ’ by School Of Seven Bells in 2008 was one of my first indulgences into the woozy re-verb rebirth. As someone who lost my drum teacher to cancer as a teenager, it’s hard to listen to this song and read the website front-page at the same time and not donate a dollar.
WORDS BY Marcus Rimondini
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