Afraid of Nothing

Sarah (Ween Cover)

EP2 from Aerodesic. Will possibly be uploaded to Spotify under the name "Jon Gage".

Freeway Exit

The Crashing Wave Of Sorrow

Everyone's Song Demo

Little Bit

Bleeding Heart

Bite your nails a storm is coming
She holds a stem tightly in her hand
A used up whore in a bastard land

Cut your wrists the blood is burning
Let the fire trickle from your veins
A wash of blood, a blackened stain

And god can't save you now
When storms are all run out
Strung out over a life of mixed up sacrifice
A big black cage of all your little white lies
And they're asking for my dues
For the souls that I have used and tossed aside
It's a walking death for all my crimes

Tear your eyes out, claw the walls
Your prayers washed down sewers by the storm
A rain that drowns their ignorance 
And rapes their faith of innocence

A Walking Death [Single]

A Walking Death

Little People is the moniker of UK based downtempo electronic musician Laurent Clerc… He returns with his second full length album - We Are But Hunks Of Wood - a whole 6 years after his first album (Mickey Mouse Operation) was released on Illicit recordings. Whilst his debut - an accomplished ode to late 90's instrumental hip hop - has unexpectedly gone on to be in the top 30 selling album downloads on iTunes in the electronic genre in the US for the last 2 years, he is still all but unknown to most tastemakers and influential blogs shaping today's electronic music scene. Having followed an unconventional route to success - thanks to in no small part to Pandora radio generating him huge amounts of exposure - he seemingly exists outside the normal channels used to promote artists. We sense this is all about to change…

'We are But Hunks of Wood' is a sonic leap forward for LIttle People (that's the least you can expect after a 6 year hiatus between albums!) which should help establish himself as key proponent of the downtempo electronic music scene. Part beats, bleeps and real live instrumentation, this new record maybe falls in a place where Bonobo and Anders Trentemoller would hypothetically meet. Having initially come from the world of instrumental hip hop where tracks are often more akin to just sketches or interesting ideas, Laurent Clerc's pieces are fully fledged songs whose arrangements create a sense of mood and movement, effortlessly going from nuanced electronic patterns to soaring string arrangements over the course of the journey. This is no beat tape.

There are many reasons why it has taken him so long to release his follow up record - like nearly turning his back on making music and becoming the father of a set of twins… But the main reason was that he felt he had to reinvent his work methodology and write and record his tracks from the ground up. He saw sampling as tantamount to taking another man's 2 bars of inspiration and passing it off as your own. The story of the samplist making the jump to creating his own material is not new… but it isn't always a successful one. Laurent took enough time to make sure that leap was taken with aplomb.

We Are but Hunks of Wood

Aldgate Patterns

Come To Your House

We bought a Christmas Tree from the hosts of NPR's Planet Money, then wrote a song about it. Featuring Leo Sidran, Amanda Sidran, Sol Sidran and Zelta Sils. 

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Little Bit

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