Microfilm

post-rock

There is more than one artist using the name Microfilm. 1. Microfilm (USA) is the Portland duo of Matthew Mercer and Matt Keppel. Two men in love with German minimalist techno, disco trash, early ‘80s synthpop and lush, moody soundtracks; that’s what brought these musical minds together. Matthew Mercer, a graphic & UX designer, and Matt Keppel, a writer and former music journalist, created Microfilm in a home office in Chicago during January 2006. They had amassed an album’s worth of songs in a matter of months and decided to test out their wares on the internet scene. By mid-summer they had been programmed on a UK indie label podcast, remixed tracks for Ladytron and Sarah Nixey, interviewed for Brazil’s largest electronic music website, featured as one of the Boston Phoenix paper’s “Top 20 Bands to Watch”, and found its debut single ‘Young Adult Fiction’ had notched a place on acclaimed BBC Radio 1 DJ Rob Da Bank’s weekly ‘One Music’ broadcast. The worldwide iTunes exclusive release of their debut album After Dark, in August 2006, coincided with a lead profile feature in Chicago’s Time Out magazine, declaring that the band “slides up comfortably to Fischerspooner or Goldfrapp”. The duo released its first CD, After Dark + Blueprints, on their own imprint, Fiche Music, which includes a remastered version of the After Dark album as well as a full disc of new remixes from artists such as InfantJoy, Kero, Warmdesk, Frenchbloke, Monologic and more...