Biography
There are at least 2 bands who go by the name Projector:
1) a Brighton UK based three piece Alt Rock/Indie act and 2) a Mexican Trip-hop act.
1) A three piece band hailing from Brighton in the U.K. and featuring Edward Ensbury on guitar/vocals, Lucy Sheehan on bass/vocals and Callum Marinho (who replaced Demelza Mather in late 2019) on drums.
Projector occupy the heavy space between brooding 1980s darkwave and My Bloody Valentine's wall-of-sound pop; a combination tone of Goo era Sonic Youth and Pixies pulled together with an industrial Joy Division pulse.
They are currently signed to Roadkill Records who have issued their last 2 singles. So far they have released a number of digital singles -
Love (Feb 2017 and reissued in Oct 2017 with Dreaming as a double a-side),
Just The Once/Germs (June 2017),
Break Your Own Heart (March 2018),
I Am Shamed (July 2018),
Full Circle (Oct 2018),
Go Ahead (Apr 2019),
Superstar (Sept 2019).
And 1 vinyl single -
How Does It Feel? (Nov 2018)
2) Trip-hop mexican band from Guadalajara influenced by bands such as Portishead and Daughter Darling, Projector is defined as a mix of trip-hop rythms, traditional mexican sounds, salsa, boleros, and mariachi; following the works of San Pascualito Rey and La Barranca.
Lyrics, urban sounds samples, or fragments of old mexican movies take the audience in a sonic trip full of mellancollie and bittersweetness. These elements found in the music create an interesting fusion between modern rythms and elementos of mexican folklore.
Español:
Banda de trip-hop Mexicana ubicada en la ciudad de Guadalajara, aunque influenciados por bandas de trip-hop como Porthishead y Daugther Darling. projector se caracteriza por mezclar los ritmos trip-hoperos con los sonidos tradicionales mexicanos, salsa, boleros y mariachi. siguiendo la linea trazada por grupos como san pascualito rey y la barranca.
Las letras los sampleos de sonidos urbanos o fragmentos de viejas peliculas mexicanas nos llevan en un viaje sonoro lleno de melancolia y desamor elementos siempre presentes en su musica que representa una interesante fusion de ritmos modernos con elementos del folklor tradicional mexicano.
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