Electro duo Matt Mooney and Nick Brewer, better known as ‘Coloureds’, formed in Oxford in early 2009. Having both previously been members of hardcore rock band ‘Xmas Lights’, the pair already had a taste for erratic and heavy sounds. It was their combined love for Disco and Electro that convinced them to take what they had learnt from recording and performing so far and create a more dance-floor orientated project. After setting up their own studio, the duo started sampling the biggest and chunkiest sounds they could squeeze out of both vintage and modern synthesisers, then began hashing them together with the grainier nastier tones of their circuit-bent kids keyboards and toys. These hybrid synth sounds would form the basis of their music, before being arranged into dancy and driving rhythms along with the beats.
Live, the pair don their colourful rubber masks and engage in furious laptop and sampler trickery. Juggling and mixing loops and stems of their recorded material to forge new variations of their works, while seamlessly blending them from one to the next. Finally funnelling it through an ensemble of effects units, morphing and intensifying these new creations.
Coloureds’ new release ‘Camelopardalis EP’ is due out September 22nd 2010, in all digital online music shops. It features a series of new tracks from the duo, plus a handful of tasty remixes.
