Podge is one of the new wave of artists now emerging whose musical education was mostly virtual – a bedroom artist directing their own tuition, intuitively. Emerging from the SoundCloud ether in 2018 he was one of 2019's cohort of Merseyrail Sound Station artists, and has been honing his sound into even sharper versions of the whip-smart music he burst onto the scene with. His music is a tangle of spaced-out melodies sung over a joyful, expansive electronic horizon of audio which leaves no sound unturned. Music that is a melting pot of different styles, but indebted to influences such as Aphex Twin, Video Game Music and Japanese Shibuya - Kei. For such artists, cultural boundaries which dictate what music from a certain place sounds like are irrelevant and nonexistent. Born and raised in Wirral and playing guitar and bass with friends from the age of 15, it developed into a personal relationship with a laptop, a synthesiser and all the sounds on the internet.
In 2019 Podge was selected onto the LIMF Academy programme and played at Sefton Park in July alongside the likes of Nile Rodgers and Chic. Also MERSEYRAIL took local emerging artists to London for a special industry showcase as part of their Sound Station artist development programme. Besides Wirral based artist Podge, were Liverpool's 'Eyesore & the Jinx' and Beija Flo, all chosen to represent the project at a show at The Waiting Room on Friday, October 4th.
In early 2020 Liverpool Sound City revealed the first 12 participants of its new artist development initiative 'Launch' of which Podge was included. In partnership with CAPLL Ltd, the programme looked to support and develop the careers of emerging artists in the North West of England. As well as featuring on that year's festival bill on May 2nd and 3rd, and showcasing at Sound City events around the world, the 12 artists involved received support over a 12-month period with recording and releasing music; funding; tour management; marketing and PR; personal development; and the transition to treating their band and brand as a business. The Edge Hill University student is an alumni of music blog Getintothis' Deep Cuts, and the innovative beat maker needs little introduction from those on the ground in the city. The same year he put out a fresh new single, 'Rest', an angsty number that melds rock and hip hop. This Liverpool shapeshifter proved once again why he's one of the most unique voices currently out. The single added another divine slice of melody and groove to a canon of singles he intends to fire out over the coming months. He was described by BBC6 Music's Tom Robinson as a "Wirral protoge with an adventurous genre bending single".
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Released on the 18th of March 2021, his playful NTS-released Samuso EP was a chaotic collection of lo-fi, sample-heavy sonic adventures topped with his half-rapped, half-sung lyrics. He credits Ping Pong the Animation by Masaaki Yuasa, video games and contemporary art as his major inspirations. His spirit guide, however, is Japanese producer Cornelius, whose mid-90s record Fantasma is a cult classic. Podge says, "I was really stuck in the noodly math rock guitar realm and then one day I heard 'Fantasma' and it completely changed my view of music. It showed me that hip-hop wasn't the only genre that was allowed to use samples, and taught me that as long as it sounds good to you, then it's good." He is still making cool sounds though, as evidenced across social media, where you’ll find him breaking down his mad scientist approach to music-making via college-like tutorials, sampling Arca here and 'Zelda: Breath of the Wild' there.
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