Ever heard of Max Tundra? He's a British dude who creates what the blogosphere refers to as "bedroom synth-pop". I don't really know what that means, and I have no idea how to describe his music, but this paragraph from Pitchfork's review of his last album helps a little:
There are recognizable things within it: streaks of quaint English pop and soul, oddball programming of video-game synth sounds, a keyboard sensibility that ranges from lite funk to a kind of gleeful prog-rock musical theater, and a happy calm that vaguely recalls Vince Guaraldi's Peanuts music.I imagine a reality show where XTC, Prince, Aphex Twin, and George Gershwin have to live together inside the sound chip of an aging Game Boy. But that makes Max Tundra sound cartoonish and scattershot, when the surprise of this stuff is how much it can all feel beautiful, simple, and coherent.
Anyway, the guy is my current musical obsession. I've never been a big fan of DJs, but Max is creating exactly the type of thing I've always wanted to hear from a DJ. (Girl Talk is too, though in a very different way.) I urge all you music-loving people to give him a listen, and here are some samples for your perusal:
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