Techno Squirrels

TechnoSquirrels is a Los Angeles based techno collaboration. There are only 2 performers that are in this group. Lisa from Sweden and Ryan who grew up in U.S.A. The 2 artists met in Liverpool, but that is not where techno squirrels started. Ryan hated techno music at first not until he heard the techno music in Liverpool. Lisa was always very interested in audio production and audio sounds. She thought it was an art of putting melody with electronic noise and how they can coexist. Both Lisa and Ryan at the time were working on completely different things, she was into singing he was into computer programming and film editing as a co-founder of Emo Riot Productions. So Lisa moved to LA and that is where the group was emerged. She kept writing new beats and bouncing ideas with Ryan and the reason why they called themselves techno squirrels because everyday working on their project a squirrel would stop by their window. Right now they are located in San Francisco and have released 3 EPs and a full length LP to date, been featured artists on KCRW sounds Eclectic with Nic Garcourt, BBC's Radio 1 and MTV The Real World. They both work not just on words for their songs but also the editing, mixing and creating new beats together even thought Lisa is the only one that sings. I found them on you tube when I typed musica electrica collaboration. I really like their stuff I listened to Love Come's First, Repeat 'Till Fade, Unbelievable and Mute and all their songs are pretty cool. I think they definately do have a specific style to their music. I liked a lot the use of panning that they do in their songs, most of the time when you listen to techno music it kind of feel all on top of each other but spacialization and panning for TechnoSquirrels music is super cool. They are very repetitive but from another side they improv the sections a little bit, I also thing they have some use of dynamics which in music now a days is not heard often, i think more dynamics would be better. They also use a lot of looping in their pieces from what I have heard so far. Here is their link check it out http://www.shejay.net/artistDetail.php?userID=1277