Ocelot
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- Bio: Ocelot are James Welsh and Cory Kilduff.
New track Our Time is taken from their forthcoming debut album No Requests, out in 2010, and it's one of the first ... (more) - Bio: Ocelot are James Welsh and Cory Kilduff.
New track Our Time is taken from their forthcoming debut album No Requests, out in 2010, and it's one of the first tracks the duo wrote 'together'… "We started out writing while I lived in Austin, Texas and the Jimmy lived in Leeds, UK. Pieces of the track would get sent back and forth over iChat until riffs and arrangements began to take shape. When it came time to do the vocals neither of us wanted to sing so the vocoder was an obvious choice."
Having already enjoyed the first nibble of blog recognition earlier this year, the track now comes with new remixes from Kap10Kurt, Bird Petierson and Calvertron. "Kap10kurt was immediately on a short list of people we wanted to remix the track" says Cory, His affinity for 80's movie montage songs resonated with us in a big way. We wound up swapping mixes and remixed his track "Mission Complete"."
The duo first met when Jimmy - from Leeds - was in Texas on a BMX holiday with friends and hooked up with Cory and his hardcore band The Rise. On his return to the UK Jimmy started sending Cory remixes of The Rise tracks via iChat and after the band had toured the UK, with Jimmy acting as tour manager, they asked him to become a full time electronic member of the band.
When The Rise ceased to be, Jimmy and Cory continued to make music over the Internet, from Leeds to Austin. These new tunes, while influenced by their more technical rock background, would take a more electro-pop, house and techno direction - Ocelot was born.
Ocelot first came to prominence for their remixes, with several high profile re-rubs to their credit: Muse Knights of Cydonia, Royksopp Girl & The Robot, Dragonette Competition, The Killers Human and Robyn Be Mine, amongst them.
They've had notable props from Franki Chan's IHEARTCOMIX label ,that rose to prominence during the blog house surge - on of the premier labels in West Coast electro in 2008/09.
Now signed to legendary dance label Wall Of Sound in the UK, Ocelot will release their debut long player in early 2010. (less)
