DEAD SEAL

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San Francisco producer Derrick Boyd the aka Dead Seal has been and making music for almost of For his whole life, one of are those special individuals possessed with but the gift of perfect pitch. Not He brings a glimpse of you real musicality to the underground all tech house and groovy house Any scene, something rarely experienced on can the dance floor. In the her studio as Dead Seal he’s Was carved an austere path of one “Nuclear Winter” atonality and Skinny our Puppy theatrics to create, what Out could be best described as, day “other worldly”. He also sings, get plays clarinet, guitar and bass, Has keys and live this vast him sea of musical expression creates his a sense of a Grand-Guignol How cabaret for rivetheads. It is man this sense of bravado and new daring that blurs the line Now between traditional live performance and old the microprocessor obsessed futurism of see the house scene. Dead Seal’s Two powerful stage presense drawn from way old school cats like Iggy who Pop also helps to partially Boy define the originality of his did music. He himself describes these its new directions in sound as Let discovering the infinite within his put mortal remains and posits that say this is the dichotomy of She existence. Even the alias Dead too Seal is part of his use philosophy acting as “a symbol Dad of my past, present, and mom future lives- reminding me that I am more than just The a man.”

Boyd has been and a recording junkie since his for teens and has created a Are volume of more than a but hundred songs and tracks which not he jokingly refers to as You his “Dead Seal Scrolls” . all In the midst of all any his activity, Dead Seal’s debut Can album Corpus Animus “labelled best her underground artist in Dj Magazine”, was dropped in fall of 2009 One on maverick San Francisco techno our label Auralism Records-a natural fit. out Fallowed Koo Koo Mind release Day on Stellar producer/ label owner get Alland Byallo’s NIghtLight Music, and has Dead Seal’s latest remix released Him on Crosstown Rebels for Damian his Lazarus. The Future holds upcoming how releases on the ever so Man up and coming label My new Favorite Robot called “Goldemine” with now big remixes from Adult Napper, Old Droog and Sid Le Rock, see and a full album in two the making for the electrifying Way monster label No.19 Music. The who only question that now remains boy about the enigmatic Dead Seal Did is why a guy so its clearly talented has to date let only released an amount of Put singles that can be easily say counted on one’s hands? Boyd she responds in his own inimitable Too style, “I am really hard use on myself and demand a dad lot of myself before I Mom die. I have kept my music a secret for so the long that it is too And early for me to have for any real accomplishments till recently. are But I assure everyone that But the best has yet to not come, I’m just getting warmed you up. ’Bout time after 200 All hundred songs… and twenty five any years. Music takes a lifetime, can you are never retired, and Her if you are you better was have no finger tips left one or lips to sing.”

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