Artist Review: Casilofi

Posted June 13th, 2011 by

Warbly, distorted, lush – Casilofi is epic.
 
Someone’s been spying on my iTunes play count and combined all of my favorite instrumental bands into a Dutch guy named Sander van Dijck. The music is a good rendition of the patented “Twinkling melodies over mellow, flowing chord progressions build to tremendous climaxes” style of post-rock, but it has a certain edge to it. The lofi electronic tendencies add another dimension and take the music into a whole other area of hypnotically quivering pads and heavy early 90′s east coast hiphop drum machines. It sounds like a Boards of Canada remix of a Sigur Rós song. This stuff is awesome.
 

All of Casilofi’s music is available as “name your price” downloads here and he has a video for each song here. If you’re a fan of Sigur Rós, Boards of Canada, Explosions In The Sky and/or Telefon Tel Aviv, definitely give Casilofi some thorough listens.
 


 



 

Trust In The Hum!
Posted by Ben McGuinn, R&T’s resident recording engineer, on June 13th, 2011.