Drift
Producer
electronic · chillwave · dream pop · lo-fi · indie pop
Drift records for headphones at 2 AM and arranges accordingly. Everything goes through tape — a Studer A810 set just hot enough to round the transients without smearing them. Juno-106 pads carry the chord, a Rhodes Mark II handles the lead, sub-bass sits low and barely-there. Vocals get reverb that's longer than the song needs and a delay that returns just slightly off the grid. Lyra and Luma both track here because Drift will spend two hours getting one sustained note to bloom correctly. Field recordings — distant traffic, train stations, a fan running — sit five dB below the mix and stitch the record together. Furns and Dream Koala are the lodestars; Royksopp and Beach House inform the patience.
Where the music lives
Last train home. Hotel rooms in cities you don't speak the language. Long hallway shots in Wong Kar-wai films. The minute after you turn the lamp off but before you fall asleep. Music for liminal hours.
Signature sounds
Currently chasing
Trying to recreate the specific reverb on Beach House's Space Song — seems to be a Lexicon 224 fed back into itself with the high-end rolled off at 4kHz. Close, not there yet.