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| Pitchfork |
 South Florida's Mike Diaz (aka MillionYoung) manages to evoke some surprisingly warm textures from chillwave's now-familiar sounds and motifs. Much of the music on Be So True shares some of the same hallmarks that freckle that movement: soft pulsing rhythms, dream-washed melodies, and nostalgia-inducing electronic patterns. Much less sample-heavy than its predecessor, this year's earlier Sunndreamm EP, Be So True collects more straightforward, deeply romantic electro-pop creations, alternately simmering with joy and traces of fragility.The music here sounds more synthetic than most current bedroom electronic projects, and Diaz reconfigures aqueous tones with an impressive array of rhythmic accents to give his productions momentum. But it's Diaz's vocals that lend a much-needed organic element. Though it's sometimes difficult to locate exactly what Diaz might be saying, since he often chops and pitch-shifts his already distant-sounding voice much like Washed Out's Ernest Greene does, lyrical sentiments take a backseat as his words melt into the lushness of his productions, often evoking a mood or emotion with a simple vocal intonation. With the careful attention Diaz pays to his assortment of drum sounds, it's also easy to make a dance connection-- even the day-glo artwork suggests the EP has as much to do with movement as feeling. "Cynthia" and "Soft Denial" possess enough momentum and blissed-out nuance to earn club play. But due to paced, introspective additions like the slow, Human League-indebted "Mien" or quick interlude "Pilfer", Be So True feels most rewarding in headphones, as repeat listens find the record inhabiting a more somber, personal space....full text |
| Indieshuffle |
| What’s so good? If you’re anything close to a regular reader of TMW, you’re going to be pretty familiar with our obsession with the chillwave/dreamwave movement that has emerged out of dreampop and surf music in the last couple of years or so. A week doesn’t go by recently without a mention of bands like Toro y Moi (who’s Causers of This is getting oh so close!), Golden Ages, Washed Out and the like, and for this reason amongst others, we couldn’t help but share with you a couple of great free EPs from the inbox which epitomise what both this movement, and our enthusiasm is rooted in. To see the first, visit This Music Wins’ website. The second release I’d like to share with you is the work of Michael Diaz aka MillionYoung, who self-released his debut, the sun-drenched SunnDreamm EP in 2009 with the Pitchfork-featured track Weak Ends as single. His latest, the Be So True EP, follows suit in terms of sound and came out on January 19, 2010. Rather than singing about the seasons and emotional dwellings of the winter month’s thoughts, MillionYoung seems a far more danceable character than the former; his remix of MemoryHouse transforms the ambient electronica arrangement into an ecstatic and pulsating dreampop/dance track, and you only have to take one look at his collection of upcoming shows to tell he’s all for hipster dancefloor filling this summer. At times with vaguely Strokes-like vocal intensity, MillionYoung scatters dance beats amongst crispy acoustic recordings and hazily hypnotic samples. You can pick up his equally brilliant, if not better EP below, via his website....full text |
| Blogs |
| Alex Diaz, the man behind the rising Coral Springs act MillionYoung, makes exquisite music for earbuds. Or laptop speakers. It's intimate, multi-textured, bittersweet, and dreamy, tailor-made for an audience of one. The tracks seem to work best if you don't pay complete attention, their unabashedly nostalgic mood triggering all kinds of Proustian associations. Still, there's a reason why, once upon a time, most downtempo electronic music was relegated to the so-called chill-out room. It's usually best experienced blissed-out and sprawled out, when you can safely retreat back into your own head. Dance floor fare, it is not. And so Diaz had his work cut out for him with his virgin appearance at the Vagabond -- in the club's main room, no less. One-person acts of mostly laptop-generated music have an uphill battle in keeping a tipsy, skeptical crowd entertained. Several local artists have managed it -- Otto von Schirach and Dino Felipe, to name a couple, have done so by turning their shows into bracing pieces of performance art. Panic Bomber, while playing more orthodox dance music, has become a live favorite thanks to real-time improvisation and a unique light show. ...full text |
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