Artist description folk + technology Metamorphonic's debut release, American Dream, contains 11 eclectic tracks that fluidly transition from techno to folk.

Music Style Folk/blues meets hip-hop beats

Musical Influences Beck, Everlast, Beatles, Lead Belly

Similar Artists Beck, Everlast, Morcheeba

Artist History This thing started in 1998 when J. Luttwak and the band moved into a run-down ex-embassy in Dupont Circle, Washington DC's enclave of diversity. We played locally with our own flavor of suburban funk held down with some Stevie and Sly covers. (On this album, that style is represented by songs like Night Train, and Ezra Pound). Early that winter I bought myself a home studio powered by a computer. We put out a demo in the spring of 1999 and kept playing the funk. Then I went to Cuba and came back with a song, but the band was gone. So I started playing around with drum tracks and stumbled upon the strange world of loops. What resulted was the track Down Stares. Just like a regular recording, most of what you hear are real instruments. The difference is some are looped and others played through the entire song. Also, non-linear editing allows for cutting and pasting of tracks until the right song dynamics are achieved.In the end what you have is many hours spent in damp basement and tracks that go beyond the shape of sound. I was stuck in a musical box and now I am not. Still the basis of all the tracks is still a guy with a melody and an acoustic guitar. Blues meets technology again.

Group Members Ranjit Bindra, Drums: Impulse, Night train, Salad Tim Green, Vocals/Keyboards: Impulse, Elijah Karen Levin, Vocals: Elijah, Atlantic Blue, Impulse, Despised, Ezra Pound, Isaac, Night Train Joseph Luttwak, Vocals/Guitars: All songs Matt Kaminsky, Bass: Elijah, Down Stares, Atlantic Blue, Salad-bar Stalker, Night Train Sasha Kelberg, Keyboard/Organ: Atlantic Blue, Despised, Ezra Pound, Isaac, Night Train Jeff Malcom, Bass: Impulse, Despised, Ezra Pound, Isaac, David Rastatter, Drums/percussion: Despised, Isaac, River Rebecca Rakow, Cello: Elijah Kurt Reisenburg, Drums: Down Stares Josh Young, Bass: Elijah Dan Young, That Jazzy Guitar: Down Stares, Impulse, Isaac, Salad-bar Stalker

Instruments guitar, bass, keys, Drums, percussion

Albums American Dream

Location Washington DC, DC - USA

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