Larry Gus - Stitches [Cast-a-Blast, 2009]

Panagiotis Melidis (born and grew up in Veria, Greece) started to write music as Larry Gus (larigas: greek for throat, larynx) in 2006, inspired by the rural enviroment of his hometown. His early influences have been Creedence Clearwater Revival and Minor Threat. He had been member of the seminal bass and drums duo Ginger, fusing hardcore punk aesthetics and hip hop beats. When Ginger broke up, he started composing music for TV commercials, which were in fact his first works as Larry Gus. Later on, he got his name due to some chaotic live perfomances, incorporating live looping techniques in an improvised pop manner. He has played alongside Caribou, Ariel Pink, !!!, Deadbeat, John Maus, Mike Slott and has also participated at the 2nd Athens Biennial and 2nd Nuit Blanche à Metz. Recently, he has resided at the Music Technology Group of Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona (Reactable, Freesound) as a postgraduate student.

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Larry Gus - Iasmos [Oko, 2009]

We were scratching our heads of what the hell to set up for orion’s 2nd birthday… almost no idea was coming ’till accidentally Chris Carras dropped the name of "Larry Gus". He was doing back then his military service in Xanthi and was already a name in the greek electronica scene. Without 2nd thoughts we asked him for a live set at the party and mix his sounds with children’s and our sounds. Without hesitation agreed. Did a lovely set but an evil eye managed to erase almost all of the recordings from our machines but an hour’s field recording set done via another machine. The 3rd birthday was near too, any kind of magic we performed couldn’t restore the erased digital files so larry spent less than 24 hours locked in his studio working on new material and using part of that field recording document of the party. The result is an 18 track cdr of fresh, joyous sounds where larry’s ideas & tracks and field recordings extracts are mixed in a blend of a gorgeous electronica! Taste it!

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