Boy Eats Drum Machine is native Portlander, Jon Ragel. As a turntablist and energetic one-man musical act, Ragel spins breaks and surgically inserts sounds while juggling vocals, percussion, and saxophone.Ragel started to make recordings under the name Boy Eats Drum Machine in 2001 when he used a 4 track to record and load his MPC with scads of samples, creating blippy pop experimentations. He wanted to evoke the idea of pac man and the music of the NES game metroid. He sold his mpc and switched exclusively to computer-based recordings a couple years later.
Boy Eats Drum Machine has a brand new record out (October 2010) – 20 Beats. It’s a collection of instrumentals, crammed full of enough beats and dance odysseys to push your body into a jump-stop and go induced oblivion. It features 10 different Portland drummers via breaks grabbed and tweaked from Bridgetown Breaks. The album is streaming in its entirety at http://boyeatsdrummachine.bandcamp.com/
Connect with Boy Eats Drum Machine:
+ Artist Website: www.boyeatsdrummachine.com
+ Download: 4 Parts 6 (mp3)
+ Download: Silverskate Gateway (mp3)
+ Download: Exhibition A (mp3)
+ Download: Hoop + Wire (mp3)
+ Contact: Ryan Wines | ryan@petmarmoset.com | 541.981.0003
