Tycho is San Fransisco artist and producer Scott Hansen. As Tycho, Hansen blends swirling melodies and stuttering beats into hazy yet triumphant arcs. Known in the design world as ISO50, Hansen is famed for his bucolic, sun-drenched design style, which serves as both a backdrop and mirror for his musical output. Dive, his second LP, is the most diverse musical statement of Hansen’s multi-medium career; the point where his skills as a performer finally catch up with his vaporized vision of a world that doesn’t belong to any particular time or place… but a world with double-exposed sonic landscapes constatly rolling into the horizon.

Tracklisting:

01. A Walk
02. Hours
03. Daydream
04. Dive
05. Coastal Brake
06. Ascension
07. Melanine
08. Adrift
09. Epigram
10. Elegy

Building up to the release of Tycho’s forthcoming album, ‘Coastal Brake’ gets the single treatment, delivered with remixes from Danish shoegaze-tronica hero Manual, Ghostly regular Lusine and cosmic disco enthusiast Hatchback.

The original sees producer Scott Hansen looking beyond the Boards Of Canada influences that tended to characterize early works. Those warm, vintage-styled synths are still very much present, but the upbeat tone of the production and its deep, warm rhythm section lend a broader appeal.

The Manual remix sounds very much as you’d expect, full of reverberant splashes and Cocteau Twins-inspired additional instrumentation, while Lusine supplies a streamlined, very precise electronic makeover. In a more Balearic mode, Hatchback throws in some shimmering disco, resulting in arguably the most successful of all the remixes.

Tracklist:

1. Coastal Brake
2. Coastal Brake (Manual Remix)
3. Coastal Brake (Hatchback’s Cosmic Caviar Dub)
4. Coastal Brake (Lusine Remix)