ASTROCOLOR SHARE NEW SINGLE SMELL OF ACID (FEAT. TYLER ROWE)
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BC TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED
Toronto, ON – March 23, 2018 – Today, Victoria, BC-based electronica group, Astrocolor, share their new single, Smell Of Acid feat. Tyler Rowe. Premiering via Canadian Musician yesterday, it’s a sample of what can be heard on Astrocolor III, their forthcoming EP in their self-titled trilogy, set for release on April 6th via Entertainment One Music. The group performs in Vancouver this Friday, March 23rd at Vancouver Art Gallery as part of JUNOfest, and will celebrate the album release with a show at Lucky Bar in their hometown of Victoria on April 6th, before playing the BC summer festival circuit. See below for a complete list of dates and listen to the single here.
“Some of my favourite sounds from the late ’90s, such as acid synths and breakbeats, have been resurfacing in modern music,” producer/DJ, Neil Cooke-Dallin says of the track. “During one of our Astrocolor recording sessions, our drummer laid down a really funky break while our bassist was playing a great loop-style line, and I knew immediately that we were onto something. We dropped the rest of the band into the mix and then I went to town on layering up some bubbling and squelching synths. It wasn’t until we had completed the instrumental arrangement that it dawned on me that an MC throwdown could take the track to higher heights. I pitched it to my friend, Tyler Rowe, we worked through some lyrics together, and then he just knocked it out of the park in what probably amounted to no more than 90 minutes of studio time. It was exactly what I had heard in my mind’s eye.”
Based in western Canada, Astrocolor perform and record live electronic music, recalling the Chemical Brothers, Air, and St. Germain. The band plays on the edges of funky house, Balearic, breakbeat, and ambient.
Astrocolor III sees the band’s instrumental and electronic roots expand into traditional song formats with feature vocals (A Light Goes Out feat. Kuba Oms), acid breakbeat (Smell of Acid), alternative house (Daylight Savings), and electro-funk (Break Your Body). Produced by Neil Cooke-Dallin, Astrocolor III is built equally for a big night out in the clubs or a dinner party soundtrack at home.
Astrocolor have brought their celebratory live show to seminal western Canadian music festivals including Rifflandia, Song & Surf, Tall Tree, and Atmosphere Gathering. The band also made debut appearances last year in Toronto (Canadian Music Week), Seattle (Upstream Music Festival), Vancouver (with Five Alarm Funk at the legendary Commodore Ballroom), St Louis, and Chicago. Astrocolor’s catalogue of original material has well over one million plays on Spotify and a loyal following of regular listeners globally.
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ASTROCOLOR III TRACK LISTING
1. Smell of Acid feat. Tyler Rowe (Radio Edit)
2. A Light Goes Out feat. Kuba Oms
3. Daylight Savings
4. Break Your Body
5. Sunshine feat. Makuta
6. A Light Goes Out (Righteous Rainbows Of Togetherness Remix)
7. A Light Goes Out (Anand Greenwell Remix)
8. Daylight Savings (Righteous Rainbows Of Togetherness Remix)
9. Smell Of Acid feat. Tyler Rowe
TOUR DATES
Friday, March 23 – Vancouver Art Gallery – JUNO Fest – Vancouver, BC
Friday, April 6 – Lucky Bar – Victoria, BC
Saturday, May 19 – Laketown Shakedown Festival – Cowichan Valley, BC
Sunday, August 19 – Cumberland Wild Festival – Cumberland, BC
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Astrocolor on Spotify: www.spoti.fi/2HVe8oL