I’ve been visiting The Sixty One quite a bit lately. For those of you who aren’t familiar (as I wasn’t until recently), it’s sort of like a combination of Pandora and any game where you have tasks to complete. It’s like Pandora because there is a ton of cool music that you’ve probably never heard. But it’s also sort of like a game, where you try to increase your ranking by finding new songs and completing tasks and whatnot. And I found a few tunes by Echodeck that I am kind of digging. My favorite thus far is “An Introduction”. It’s sort of glitchy (the good, intentional glitchy) and is just really cool and ambient and great to listen to. It reminds me a bit of Four Tet, and we know how I feel about him. I can’t really find out much about this fella though. His myspace profile tells us that he’s Paul Barrett from the UK. And his profile on The Sixty One just says “echodeck is completely fictional”. Good thing that this alleged fictional character left behind some good tunes. Kind of like those songs that were included in the hit period film “That Thing You Do”.
