Ducktails is the musical project of Matthew Mondanile originally from Ridgewood, New Jersey.

“On the other side of the globe, solo artist Ducktails approaches psychedelic music from a pop perspective. Born in Northern Jersey and a graduate of Western Massachusetts liberal arts magnet Hampshire College, Matt Mondanile constructs tropical mixed tapes from outer space.

Reached by phone before a show, Mondanile described his live performances as “like making a soundtrack to a movie on the spot.” Though his recordings are improvised, his live sets weave longer pieces together. Acting as a collagist, he uses samples and plays over them with a synthesizer or a guitar.

Asked about the influences of his work, Mondanile emphasized melody and a pop sensibility. He cited “oldies stations” on the radio as major touchstones. “I really like it when people can pick out melodies from the mush of sound they are presented with.”

Ducktails’ music shimmers and sparkles as interwoven and overlapping transmissions. Though he cites the solo work of Tangerine Dream member Edgar Froese as a touchstone, and has been in his share of punk and noise groups, Mondanile highlighted the significance of song-craft in neo psychedelic music.”

-Last.FM
http://www.myspace.com/ducktailss

They’re rad. Did I ever mention that is my most favorite live video of any one band, ever?

Merriweather Post Pavilion out in January!
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Eric Copeland’s Alien In A Garbage Dump represents part one of the forthcoming album from the increasingly prolific member of Black Dice. These seven jams are steeped in modern media overload; dense, often fragmented blasts of ideas and sounds, representative of a half hour of prime-time television (or something like that). But rather than contributing to this problem (pissing in the ocean), Eric’s black humor teases and criticizes the American stimuli machine in which we all participate; a house of mirrors perspective where all is familiarly skewed, humorous but misleading, disorienting and searching. This is over-loaded, over-processed, over-dosed music that’s rooted in the public sounds, but somehow a giant leap from any fashion dominating the public mind. A repeat listener for sure…It’s a musical creation from an Earthling to our peers in the Universe.

Alien in a Garbage Dump - Eric Copeland

I’m getting my copy in the mail sometime this week. From the two tracks above, I don’t believe I’ll be disappointed. Actually, I never did :) Eric Copeland is one of the new frontiersman of experimental music.