Name: Camphor by Caural
Duration: 4 min 25 s
Description: From Stars On My Ceiling (Chocolate Industries, 2002)

This'd make a good left side base for scratching, battle record style. GJ

So many miles, so many mornings on the tube along with this masterpiece. Mille grazie. Topnotchprod/Marie

'All These Todays Just Melt Into Tomorrows' popped up on my weekly Spotify list last week. Better late than never, eh? ;) Love this album (:

All These Todays Just Melt Into Tomorrows' popped up on my weekly Spotify list last week. Better late than never, eh? ;) Love this album (:

From Stars On My Ceiling (Chocolate Industries, 2002)

Stars On My Ceiling

Camphor

Broadcast live on the Youngbloods Morning Show on Eaton Radio, my pal John Moses invited me to walk through the making of my new single, Cynkill, for a Story In Sound.

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Cynkill

Cynkill - Story In Sound

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Sanza Eclipse

Born worshipping vinyl through his parents’ living room stereo, Caural (born Zachary Mastoon)based temples at his sparkly blue drum set, the Casio PT-80 and guitar. He was soon skinning his knees skateboarding with childhood neighbor Stuart Bogie (Arcade Fire, TV on The Radio, Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra), and capturing youthful interpretations of early 80's Hip Hop, new wave and pop radio hits together on cassette. Playing an amalgam of jazz influenced punk in their early teens, they went on to co-found Transmission in 1991, a group which later took a more experimental turn with the addition of saxophonist Colin Stetson. 

Equally in love with rap and shoegaze, Mastoon clarified his voice with Anthony Braxton at Wesleyan University and an around-the-world gamelan orchestra aboard Semester At Sea; however, it was during his final year at NYU in 1999 that he began fusing his disparate influences quite literally with a Yamaha SU700. A CD-R of his first four compositions was slipped from his coworker at the turntablism-pioneering Asphodel Records to the head of Toshoklabs, and the first Caural album had found a home. 

A critically acclaimed catalog of original material and remixes for Chocolate Industries, Mush, Plug Research, Sound in Color, and other early foundation builders of the "beat scene" followed. It was in early 2006 that he teamed up with LA emcee Busdriver to tour with everyone from Aceyalone through Deerhoof, often bloodying fingers and accidentally tearing knobs off his sampler on stage.

Camphor

Caural

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