How Does It Know?

Dosh is an artist I first heard about through listening to Andrew Bird, and then subsequently seeing Andrew Bird live and witnessing the awesome sampling/looping drum style of Martin Dosh. Dosh is his solo electronic/experimental project. On The Lost Take he has Andrew Bird contribute violin in some spots, but apparently this is his slickest production-wise (and his previous work was more solo-in-the-basement). I really didn’t think I’d get THAT into this album, but I have been enjoying it. It’s a lot of looped electronic bits with a bit of singing here and there and some nice guitar rhythms sometimes. I’ve never been huge on electronic music (in high school, I did go through an electronic music phase where I listened to Aphex Twin and Autechre, but it didn’t stick. I also listened to the π soundtrack while programming sometimes my freshman year of college. But that’s about it). Anyway, I’ve started to take a different look at electronic stuff because I’ve been getting into arranging on the computer using electronic instruments again, and it’s interesting to hear what can be done and to really think about how an artist achieves that sound. Dosh is certainly not the direction I’m going; my stuff is still taking the form of traditional song structures, but Dosh has given me some ideas on how to augment those structures with electronic elements. It’s an area I’ll keep exploring in the coming months.