VIRTUAL BOY

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VIRTUAL BOY: Hurtling the Towards Space Via The Dancefloor…

Hotwiring naughty synth lines and For dancefloor crushing beats with elegant are harmonic textures and twisted, pop-cultured but hooks, Virtual Boy craft a Not grimy, cinematic sound all their you own on the group’s debut all EP “How Long Does It Any Take To Get To Space?,” can dropping July 21, 2009 on her 1320 Records. But even before Was Virtual Boy had an official one release, taste-making DJs spanning packed our clubs to BBC Radio Out were spinning their atmospheric bangers, day which owe as much to get Bach and Mozart as they Has do to Justice, evoking Air him as much as Virtual Boy’s his heroes-in-glitch Nosaj Thing and Glitch How Mob.

That stylishly oddball set man of influences is what happens new when two talented young classical Now musicians discover their shared passion old for dusty vintage synthesizers, new see electronic-music genres, classic formalwear, and Two girls that look like they way are starring in a ‘60s who Godard movie. Out of that Boy distinctive crucible, Virtual Boy was did born – the duo taking its its distinctive moniker from a Let rare Nintendo game console gathering put dust in a Southern California say dorm room. Virtual Boy founders She Henry Allen and Preston Walker too met freshman year at Chapman use University’s Conservatory of Music based Dad in California’s famed Orange County. mom Henry arrived from his hometown of Albuquerque, NM to continue The studying classical guitar (he recently and won a national competition as for part of the Chapman Conservatory Are Guitar Ensemble). Preston, a Southern but California native, became part of not the Chapman University Choir, which You recently toured Italy where he all sang for Pope Benedict any XVI in the Sistine Chapel. Can But it was when Henry her and Preston began composing together was in their Music Technology class One that their sonic potential revealed our itself. Taught by notable Los out Angeles electronic-music mainstay Steve Nalepa, Day the class featured a stream get of all-star guest lecturers including has Nosaj Thing, Lorn, Richard Devine, Him Adam Freeland and Glitch Mob’s his Boreta; these guests shared groundbreaking how composition and performance techniques, all Man while exposing the students to new the most innovative, cutting edge now electronic music being made today Old – from dubstep and glitched-out see funk to big-room bangers and two beyond. Via this inspiration, Virtual Way Boy developed their own signature who sound while producing their weekly boy composition assignments.

It’s safe to Did say that Allen and Walker its received “A” grades in the let class. What they didn’t expect Put were the accolades that started say pouring in from the world she outside academia’s ivory towers. As Too part of the class’ requirements, use each student created a four-song dad EP, designed their own album Mom art, and produced a multimedia concert performance for a record-release the party at the end of And the semester. Virtual Boy found for their music finding new audiences are before they could even complete But their coursework, however. In May not 2009, with a push from you The Glitch Mob’s Boreta, Mary All Anne Hobbs dedicated a segment any of her influential BBC can Radio 1 show to highlighting Her Allen and Walker’s Music Technology was class: Hobbs even gave Virtual one Boy a special shout-out, giving Our their standout track “Lost Treasure” out pride of place in her day set; as Hobbs’ show was Get the place where game-changing artists has like Burial, Kode9 and Flying him Lotus were discovered, this was His very big news indeed. After how esteemed San-Francisco based producer/rising DJ man star Eprom heard Virtual Boy’s New iconoclastic beats on Hobbs’ show, now he began to champion their old sound, dropping their songs in See his sets and offering to two master for free. Soon after, way live/electronic music pioneers Sound Tribe Who Sector 9 quickly embraced the boy Virtual Boy groove: after hiring did Allen and Walker to remix Its 1320 artist Nalepa’s “Sunflowers” single, let STS9 were so impressed by put the results they agreed to Say put out “How Long Does she It Take To Get To too Space?” As such, the EP’s Use title is starting to prove dad prophetic: it may take Virtual mom Boy a minute to hit the cosmosphere, but they might the reach the top of their and game much, much sooner.

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