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Camp America
12+ albums
indiepopelectronicalap-pop
about
Camp America is an electro-pop/indie project which started life when Steven Cowley started experimenting with making music using his laptop and whatever instruments & samples he could get his hands on. In January 2008, Camp America released the Camp America EP which features vocals/co-writes from Joel Pott (Athlete) and Andy Mort (Atlum Schema). Towards the end of 2008 the Camp America live show came to life, with Nathan Evans and Benji Thatcher on drums/samples. Here is the biography from Jan 2009: Join a band. Believe you're the next big thing. Get disillusioned when nothing happens. Repeat. Do whatever it takes to fund the cycle - in this case though, we're not talking about dealing or pimping. More like TV gameshows and medical trials. The low point was probably composing mobile phone ringtones for the people responsible for elvismobile.com. Despite multiple tours, radio sessions for LA's KCRW and BBC Radio 2, even a private showcase for Rick Rubin in LA, none of these bands made the grade. But that's all in the past. Steven Cowley's youth was spent coaxing sounds from the family Atari. Then came the afore-mentioned ill-fated bands. It was only after he purchased a computer of his own and started experimenting that things started coming together. Throwing whatever he could find into the mix - charity shop keyboards, borrowed guitars, vinyl found lying in the street - Camp America came to life as a one-man laptop project. Cheap-hop, lap-pop, beep-bop... Whatever it
