Tycho (real name, Scott Hansen) is an electronic producer out of San Francisco, California, United States. He is well-known for composing ambient, experimental electronica, fusing elaborate analogue melodies, with atmostpheric synthesised sounds. While his sound can be described as dance music, it is on the outer perimeters.
Tycho’s style is more concerned with creating interesting soundscapes than blasting out pulsing club hits. It is a blended, sometimes soporific narcosis of wide-ranging sound clips that ranges from spacey, to aquatic, to harmonious, to dissonant. Tycho encapsulates the analogue sounds, instrumentation and samples of early electronica – Kraftwerk and Neu!, to wit – while staying strong to a futurist ethos.
He’s signed to Ghostly International, a Detroit-based electronic label that focuses on alternative electronic music and has released a range of underground artists including Com Truise, Tropic of Cancer, Gold Panda HTRK and ADULT. across genres ranging from break-beat, synthwave, shoegaze and indietronica.
He’s released two full-lengths with Ghostly International 2011’s “Dive”, including the singles “Hours” and the title track, “Dive”, and 2014’s “Awake”, with the singles “Montana”, “Spectre” and “See” as well as the title track.
“Awake” charted Number 2 on the US Dance/Electronic Albums Chart and Number 3 on the US Independent Albums Chart.
His sound has drawn varied comparisons from critics to the down-tempo lo fi of Toro Y Moi and Washed Out, to the glittering drone of Boards of Canada, to the intercut trip-hop of DJ Shadow.
He’s done official remixes of Little Dragon’s “Little Man”, Ulrich Schnauss’s “I Take Comfort In Your Ignorance” and Thievery Corporations “Fragments”.
Alongside his musical prowess, Hansen is also an established visual artist, working under the alias ISO50 for his design and photographic projects.
Lee Foss
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