Al Lover

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In short, Al Lover is a producer from San Francisco, but there's more layers to his wall of sound then meets the ear. Over the last few years he has gained much notoriety for his melding of contemporary and past garage and psychedelic rock into harsh yet spacey abrasive beats. Equal Parts 13th Floor Elevators and DJ Shadow, Al Combines crunchy drums, shaky percussion, chopped samples and layers of textured effects to create an unexplored path for psychedelic music. The antithesis to the highly compressed and synth heavy trend in current beat culture, Al Lover offers an earthy and loose approach that sounds more like you're listening to a DMT fueled psych band than a beat made on an MPC. Starting with his 2010 release of an unofficial Woodsist Records Remix project (where he was swiftly given a cease and desist by the label) Al set out to build with current bands and sample their material. The end result was "Distorted Reverberations", an exploration in sampling the works of such rock acts as Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees, not quite remixing but not quite your average approach to beat making either. Around this time he also released his "Safe as Milk Replica" project, a reworking of Captain Beefheart's first record which was highly praised on the web by The LA Times, The Daily Swarm and countless others. A year after his first official release, "Satanic Tambourines" on Impose Records, his newest upcoming solo venture, "Space Magick" (scheduled for a 1-3-13 release)expound

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