Tanlines

Tanlines are an experimental pop duo based in Brooklyn and comprised of Jesse Cohen and Eric Emm. Jesse used to play in Professor Murder and Eric was in production duo the Brothers. Blurring the line between production team and band, Tanlines are equally influenced by the overproduced studio pop music of the 1980s and 90s and underground dance music from cultures around the world. Tanlines blend these styles against a backdrop of frantically pulsating rhythms, hypnotic guitar lines, and melodies to form what sounds like pop music from a country that doesn’t actually exist. Tears for Fears as snake charmers. Stock, Aitken, Waterman at Monster Island Basement. The Caribbean’s answer to KLF. Awesome found footage soundtracks from the outer reaches of the internet. Tanlines first emerged in 2008, getting some attention for their first track, a playful, synth-led remix of Telepathe’s ‘Chrome’s On It’. Since then, they have also done remixes for El Guincho, The Tough Alliance, Glasser, Au Revoir Simone, and Angel Deradoorian of the Dirty Projectors. Their remix style often consists of completely rewriting all of the music around an unaltered vocal take. These remixes ar... more...