Emerging local musicians are given two minutes to introduce one of their songs and say whatever they like about themselves and their music.
Aporia / Self-portrait. Photo: Unknown
Name: Mitchell James O'Sullivan
Age: 22
Hometown: Grey Lynn/ Waihi Beach
Sounds like: Aphex Twin's selected ambient works period via Flying Nun via Bristol sound.
Musical Guilty Pleasure: Oasis/Blur. I love my Brit pop.
Formative Musical Experience: Discovering Aphex Twin one long hot summer, which totally blew me away. Before that I hadn't really heard any electronic music I liked. After that all I wanted to do was get a synth and a drum machine. Also listening to CAN who were huge in making me want to make music. In my opinion they're the best band ever. There's so much consideration for each other’s playing and it's just so organic. No one can really touch CAN in my mind.