Headquarters:
Chicago, IL
Now Playing:
“Stars On My Ceiling”
Sounds Like:
An unusual hybrid of instrumental hip-hop and shoegazer rock.
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Why
he matters:
You can tell from one listen to “Stars On My Ceiling,”
Caural’s debut album, that he has hella fun with the music-making
process. Like British producer extraordinaire Luke Vibert, Caural
(Zachary Mastoon) loves funk and knows how to make it jiggle with
absurd eccentricity. Deepening the quirk quotient is Caural’s
affinity for shoegazer rock. (If Mo’ Wax ca. 1996 merged with
Creation ca. 1991, it would provide the perfect home for Caural’s
idiosyncratic take on sampladelia.) “Stars On My Ceiling”
finds Caural fulfilling the vast potential he showed on last years’
“Initial Experiments In 3-D” album (Toshoklabs) and
the “Paint” EP (Chocolate Industries). Expect greater
exposure to ensue (Cibo Matto’s Miho Hatori has tapped him
to remix her work).
Kindred Spirits:
Wagon Christ, Prefuse 73, Clouddead
By:
Todd Hutlock & Dave Segal
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