With so much new music floating around the interwebs, sometimes it’s hard to dig a little deeper and find out more about a promising artist.
That’s why The Profile is breaking it down for you. The Pitch takes care of the nitty gritty factual bits, The Plot serves as a Q & A with the artist, and The Plug is where you can go for more.
The Pitch
Tincture is 23 year-old Brisbane musician and producer Luke Dalton. Despite having trained as a classical pianist for most of his childhood, Tincture began dabbling with electronic production in early 2012; turning out a series of smooth-garage inflected remixes and bootlegs that quickly garnered positive responses.
2013 sees Tincture ready his first official release, with the addition of live vocals and wider instrumentation pushing his sound in a refreshing new direction. A sea of noisy synths and skittering percussion complement breathy, reverb laden vocals hooks; a knowing nod in the direction of both nineties era dream- pop and the new wave of genre-blurring bedroom producers emerging from around the globe. He’s also one half of label Silo Arts!
The Plot
Hometown:
“Ex-resident of Tokyo, currently residing in Brisbane, Australia.”
Influences:
“Brian Eno, The Blade Runner Original Soundtrack, the notion of hyper-reality, ’80s era Phil Collins, and 3AM SBS Weather Watch (see below).”
Dream Collaboration:
“Scoring a film with with Fever Ray, Burial and Vangelis.”
Venue or festival you’d love to play:
“Fuji Rock. Probably the best music festival I’ve ever been to. The complete lack of dickheads and super chilled mountain vibes are unbeatable. Japanese crowds are so respectful to artists, and they’re there for the music, not to get fucked up and take selfies, which is really refreshing.”
First song you ever wrote:
“I used to write quite a bit of ambient stuff for piano during my obsessive phase with Brian Eno, but I think the first proper ‘song’ I wrote was sort of a theme song for a road trip that my mates and I were going on. We were all going to Noosa for new year of 2008, and I’d been living in Japan all that year and was really missing my friends, so I wrote a bit of a Bowie-inspired psych jam to soundtrack the journey. Just listened to it then actually, equal parts hilarious and embarrassing…”
Favourite local acts:
“Charles Murdoch. I really love Charlie’s stuff, especially the things he was doing before signing to Future Classic. His delicate use of found sounds and masterful control of the stereo field gives me huuuuuge producer envy, there’s not many other producers that pay that much attention to detail when crafting a track. Every time I listen I hear something new.”
The Plug
‘Tryst’ Featuring Hazel Brown is out now. You can listen to that as well as Tincture’s mixtapes here.
Tincture will also be performing at Silo Arts & Record’s *not so official* Melbourne Music Week Showcase at Workers Club alongside Friendships, Martin King, Blossoms and Planète on Thursday November 21st. Get tickets here.
