Bandcamp is an enigmatic beast. On the surface it's a versatile and useful tool for hosting and promoting your own music. It lets you tag your albums, and search for other albums with the same tags. If you search for tags like "experimental" or "electronica", though, expect to find yourself in a world of completely unfamiliar albums by artists who are complete mysteries. I'm going to start chronicling some of my own findings in the furthest reaches of that deeply fascinating site we call Bandcamp.
For today, I hope you like saxophones.
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Moon Hooch are an interesting band. They consist of saxophonists Mike Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen, and drummer James Muschler, they hail from Brooklyn, NY, and they bill themselves as purveyors of primal, energetic, electronica-inspired music. They call it "cave music", which is a fairly apt description. It sounds a lot like Parov Stelar (you know, the Catgroove guy), if you removed all the synths and introduced a live drummer. Their brand of animalistic dance-style jazz is surprisingly versatile. It turns out there's a lot you can do with two saxophones and a drumkit, especially when the instrumentalists in question are all so talented; they play at near virtuoso levels. More importantly, it all sounds great. Saxophones have been lending a certain flair to dance music ever since 808 State, and it turns out they still sound effortlessly badass when you remove all the actual electronic elements. They sound especially badass when played with such intensity as Moon Hooch play them; it sounds like I'm overselling them, but trust me, Moon Hooch oversell themselves with the sort of musical fury they're making.
My only issue is that they only really have one sound; they make these intensely danceable jazz numbers, but they don't seem to have any flavours other than that so far. Still, it's not a bad flavour to have, and it's a flavour that is uniquely Moon Hooch. I'd recommend them to anyone who wants to hear something new. You can stream their self-titled debut here and buy a physical copy here.
For today, I hope you like saxophones.
Moon Hooch are an interesting band. They consist of saxophonists Mike Wilbur and Wenzl McGowen, and drummer James Muschler, they hail from Brooklyn, NY, and they bill themselves as purveyors of primal, energetic, electronica-inspired music. They call it "cave music", which is a fairly apt description. It sounds a lot like Parov Stelar (you know, the Catgroove guy), if you removed all the synths and introduced a live drummer. Their brand of animalistic dance-style jazz is surprisingly versatile. It turns out there's a lot you can do with two saxophones and a drumkit, especially when the instrumentalists in question are all so talented; they play at near virtuoso levels. More importantly, it all sounds great. Saxophones have been lending a certain flair to dance music ever since 808 State, and it turns out they still sound effortlessly badass when you remove all the actual electronic elements. They sound especially badass when played with such intensity as Moon Hooch play them; it sounds like I'm overselling them, but trust me, Moon Hooch oversell themselves with the sort of musical fury they're making.
My only issue is that they only really have one sound; they make these intensely danceable jazz numbers, but they don't seem to have any flavours other than that so far. Still, it's not a bad flavour to have, and it's a flavour that is uniquely Moon Hooch. I'd recommend them to anyone who wants to hear something new. You can stream their self-titled debut here and buy a physical copy here.