Tycho

Recent News (more at ISO50)

Songkick put together a wonderful cause to get Tycho to play in London, UK on Dec. 14th. The site is Detour Dates which if 500 people buy tickets they'll get Tycho over to London to play a show at XOYO and have Scott do his first proper gig in the EU with Zac Brown the bassist.

If the show happens we'll also have an exclusive poster for some of the first people thru the door made by Scott Hansen.

Tickets / Info

∴ Tycho Little Dragon Remix

The Tycho remix of Little Dragon's Little Man is out now. You can download it here or have a listen below.

∴ Tycho Live in LA / SF - Dec 8th / 10th

Two shows added for December:

12/08/2011 - Echoplex, LA - Info / Tickets
12/10/2011 - The Independent, SF - Info / Tickets

You can get a copy of the show poster here.

Full band + visuals at both. See you there!

∴ Dive (Radio Edit) Single + Teen Daze Hours Remix Out Now

The Radio Edit of Tycho's Dive single hit iTunes today (including the excellent Teen Daze remix of Hours)

∴ Dive: SPIN Album Stream Premier SPIN is streaming Dive in it's entirety. Have a listen here

Dive: SPIN Album Stream Premier

∴ Tampa: Last Tycho / Little Dragon Show

We're wrapping up the Little Dragon / Tycho tour tomorrow night in Tampa (Tuesday, Oct. 25th). It's been an incredible tour, we started out up in Toronto and made our way down through the south. It was our first time playing a lot of these cities and we were amazed by the warm reception we got from everyone. We'll definitely be back very soon with the full show (visuals etc.)

We're driving from Orlando to Tampa right now, can't wait to get back out there for the first time with the live band. We have the day off so going to try and get some sun and swimming in today.

You can purchase tickets for the Tampa show here or you can enter to win some here.

See you out there!

Photo from Music Hall of Williamsburg show by Every.Seven

∴ Tycho, Korallreven, Teen Daze Live in Brooklyn

Tycho will be doing a show with the full live band and visuals on Sunday, October 16th at Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, NY. We'll be joined by with blog favorites Korallreven (DJ set) and Teen Daze (live). Should be a fun night, hope to see you out!

Tycho Live (w/ band)
Korallreven (DJ Set)
Teen Daze

Sun, October 16, 2011
Doors: 8:00 pm / Show: 9:00 pm
Music Hall of Williamsburg
Brooklyn, NY
$15
18 and over

Details / Tickets

If you're not in the area, we're also touring with Little Dragon down the east coast - details here.

∴ Tycho - Dive Album Out Now

The new full-length Tycho album, Dive, is now available for direct download from the ISO50 Shop. This is the digital version (MP3/FLAC), CD and vinyl will be shipping November 15th.

It was a long time coming so it's nice to be able to release it a little earlier than planned. Enjoy!

Purchase Tycho - Dive

∴ Tycho on tour with Little Dragon

We're very pleased to announce that Tycho will be joining Little Dragon for an East Coast tour this month. Details follow, hope to see you out!

Tycho - Fall Tour w/ Little Dragon

Wed, Oct 12 @ The Hoxton - Toronto, ON
Sun, Oct 16 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg (Bowery Presents) - Brooklyn, NY *
Mon, Oct 17 @ Royale Nighclub - Boston, MA
Tue, Oct 18 @ Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
Wed, Oct 19 @ Shadow Lounge - Pittsburgh, PA
Fri, Oct 21 @ Masquerade (Haven Stage) - Atlanta, GA
Sat, Oct 22 @ Grand Cenral (Poplife) - Miami, FL
Sun, Oct 23 @ Firestone Live - Orlando, FL
Tue, Oct 25 @ Crowbar - Tampa, FL

*Tycho Headlining (w/out Little Dragon)

∴ Live A/1V Laptop Set @ Decibel Fest

Last minute addition to the calendar. I'll be doing a live Tycho A/V laptop set tomorrow night at Decibel Fest in Seattle. Hope to see you out.

OPTICAL 1 : SINE YOUR NAME ACROSS MY HEART

TYCHO (A/V) 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM

SIMON SCOTT (LIVE) 7:30 PM - 8:30 PM

MOUNTAINS (LIVE) 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Friday September 30th, 2011 Nordstrom Recital Hall (Benaroya) : 200 University St Doors: 6:00 PM All-Ages

Full details here

∴ Dive iTunes Pre-Order

We've got about a month to go until the full release of the new Tycho full length, Dive (out digital Oct. 25 / physical Nov. 15), but iTunes has the pre-order up now at a discount. I'm putting together a preview track with snippets from all the songs on the album, should be posting that in the coming weeks.

Pre-order Dive on iTunes

You can also score the official release of Hours / Cascade here

∴ Tycho Los Angeles Ticket Giveaway

Tycho will be playing live with the full band in Los Angeles next Tuesday to kick off a three date west coast stint leading up to the Bumbershoot festival in Seattle. We're giving away two sets of tickets (two tickets in each set) to the LA show at the Echoplex. Head on over to the blog for a chance to win

Upcoming Tycho Live Dates

08/30/11 - Los Angeles, CA - Tickets / Info
09/02/11 - Portland, OR - Tickets / Info
09/04/11 - Seattle, WA - Tickets / Info

∴ Tycho Dive - Album Details
Some links with info on the new single and upcoming album (Out Nov. 15th).

· Full track listing and details at Ghostly
· Download and stream Hours at Pitckfork
· Download and stream Hours at XLR8R
· Hours artwork and single at ISO50

∴ New Tycho Single + Album Artwork

Today Pitchfork shared the first single from the upcoming Tycho album "Dive". The single entitled "Hours" is available as a free download. Along with this special announcement we are offering the pre-order lithographs featuring the album artwork, head over to the shop and grab one of the first editions.

Tycho - Hours by Tycho

∴ Album Complete - Free Single - Several Tour Dates Added
I'm very pleased to announce that the next full length Tycho album is complete with a release date set for October, 2011. Also, an edited version of the title track from the album will be released as a free single in early August. Full details along with album artwork and exact release dates are coming soon.

We've also added some new dates for the live band, details are at the events page on the blog.

∴ Live in Brooklyn 4/16

I'll be playing a laptop / visuals set at Cameo Gallery in Brooklyn this Saturday, 4/16 at Midnight. Space is very limited so grab a ticket early. I'll also have some copies of the above limited edition print on hand.

Tickets | Info

∴ Visuals + Song Clip + News

Above is some (poorly shot on a phone, sorry) test footage from the new visuals set for the Tycho live show (next one is this Thursday, 4/7 in SF). The song is from the forthcoming album. It’s not all completely tightened up yet but you get the idea. I recently stripped down the entire live set — audio and video — and started from scratch. With the new album pretty much wrapped up I decided to rework the visuals to go with all the new material and to have everything work better with the new live band. What you’re seeing is VDMX effecting / compositing video in real-time on a Macbook Pro. Everything is being triggered / synced by another machine via MIDI over IP running Reaper which is handling all the audio duties.

I’ve been using VDMX for years now but just recently switched to Reaper as my DAW for recording and decided to use it for the live shows as well (Was never happy with Ableton. It’s a great app but it just didn’t fit my specific needs / workflow). It’s been a very freeing experience to say the least. Being able to use the same software in the studio and on stage has helped immeasurably and opened up some possibilities that didn’t exist before. Here’s hoping it all works as smoothly on Thursday (the first Tycho show to feature the new album and visuals) as it has been during rehearsals.

I also wanted to take this time to give a bit of a progress report on the new Tycho album. It feels like forever since I started, but everything has finally come together. Things took a lot of twists and turns; a lot has changed and some songs have been shelved while new ones have taken their place. But I think the album is now — finally — what I envisioned it to be when I started this process some two years ago. All that is left to do now is tie up some loose ends and complete the mixing / mastering phase and things should be ready to go. With label schedules and all that I’d imagine a release date sometime after this summer.

Thanks to everyone for your patience and support over this past couple years. You have afforded me the ability to focus on my work in a way I was never able to before, and for that I am extremely grateful.

∴ Tycho Live at The Independent, San Francisco 4/7/2001

I'll be playing a Tycho show at The Independent here in San Francisco on April 7th for the SOMA FM 11th Anniversary Party. This will be with the entire live band and we'll be running through a lot of new material from the upcoming album (which, incidentally, is very near completion; hoping to have it wrapped up by the time of this show).

We've been working a lot on evolving the live set and the visuals so I'm excited that we'll be bringing all the new elements together for the first time at The Independent, which just happens to be my favorite venue in the city. I hope to see a lot of you out there.

SOMA FM 11TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY
Tycho Inu, SOMA FM DJs

Thu, April 7, 2011
Doors: 7:30 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
$18.00 - $20.00 - Tickets

∴ Tycho Live SF + Sacramento

Update #2: Planning another show at the Independent for early April. Stay Tuned...

Update: at the time of this writing the San Francisco show is apparently sold out, sorry.

Couple Tycho shows coming up. The first one is here in San Francisco next Wednesday (1/19) with Zoe Keating and Inu. Then after that it's on to Sacramento for SEMF on Thursday, January 27th. SEMF is the Sacramento Music Festival which, if you haven't been, is well worth the drive. This year's line up includes Daedelus, Dusty Brown, Little Foxes, Bonjay, Sister Crayon and many more. Hope to see you out there!

∴ Coastal Brake Tee Shirt

This is the limited edition Coastal Brake tee shirt featuring artwork from the Tycho Coastal Brake release. This is the first time I've worked with four color process in screen printing, was an interesting change of pace getting the colors matched. More pics and info over here.

∴ Casino Versus Japan x ISO50

I’ll be doing visuals (as ISO50) for Casino Versus Japan when he plays with Deerhunter and Real Estate this Friday and Saturday here in San Francisco. We’ve done this once before, at LPR in NYC. Should be a great night, see you out there.

10.29 – Deerhunter, Casino Versus Japan (w/ ISO50), Real Estate
@ Great American Music Hall

10.30 – Deerhunter, Casino Versus Japan (w/ ISO50), Real Estate
@ Slim’s More Details at the ISO50 Blog

∴ Seattle - NYC - Toronto Shows

Got a few shows coming up:

9/26 - Tycho w/ Vladislav Delay+Sanso-Xtro - Triple Door, Seattle Tickets
9/29 - Tycho w/ Com Truise - Le Poisson Rouge, NYC Tickets
10/2 - Tycho w/ TBA - The Drake Hotel, Toronto Details

∴ The New Live Set

Over the past few weeks I’ve been going through the process of putting together a live band for the Tycho show coming up on July 9th here in San Francisco. Those of you who’ve been to my past shows will know that I usually play solo and the focus is on the visuals and some light synth work. I’ve always wanted to try and represent the album version of the music as faithfully as possible in the live environment. But this recent break from playing live (been working on the new album) has given me a chance to re-evaluate what I want the performances to be about and it’s also afforded me some time to put into developing the whole thing a little more.

This upcoming set at Mezzanine will be my first show back in a while — and one of only a few I’ll be playing this summer as I wrap up the album — so I wanted it to be something special. I’ve been working with a some other musicians on the new material so it sort of made sense to try and incorporate them into the live stuff. I spent the past couple weeks deconstructing a lot of the songs and working them into live versions that sort of bridge the gap between electronic and traditional instrumentation and have been rehearsing with the band at Ira Skinner’s studio in Sacramento.

Zac Brown (frequent collaborator and guitarist for Dusty Brown) will be handling bass duties while Matt McCord will be on drums. I’ll be on some guitars and synth and Dusty and Jessica Brown will be joining us for a couple songs as well. We’ve got a few more practices but things are sounding really good and I’m really excited to bring it all to life on the 9th. Hope to see you there. More info: Ghostly A/V Showcase – Facebook event page

∴ Past is Prologue iTunes Reissue

Past is Prologue has been reissued by Ghostly International and is now available on iTunes (and, as always, at the ISO50 Shop). the reissue includes an exclusive remix by Mux Mool of From Home. I often get asked about the lineage of this album, which has taken on many forms, so I thought I’d lay it out here. The original release was entitled Sunrise Projector and was self-released. Later, Merck records picked it up and released it as Past is Prologue. The Merck version featured new artwork, two new original songs, and two new remixes — but was missing one of the tracks from the Sunrise Projector release. Merck also released a 12″ vinyl sampler featuring 5 tracks from the album. Now, ghostly has released this digital reissue which features the new Mux Mool remix. Hope that clears it up!

Listen to Mux Mool Remix here

∴ Album Progress Update

Some news:

Album progress update ↵
Coastal Brake Now Available in Digital & Vinyl Formats ↵
Coastal Brake Reviewed by Pitchfork ↵
Tycho Live in NYC 12/13/09 ↵

Tycho - Coastal Brake Single Artwork Released

Tycho - Coastal Brake 12" Pre-Order

For more info check out the Tycho section or upcoming shows page @ ISO50