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rhythmic electronic music made with puredata.

The Contrarian is the alter ego of Washington, DC-based musician/producer/writer Casey Rae.

This page is for demos, covers, unfinished ideas, and mixes-in-progress. 

For the whole sweet real deal, head to:
www.thecontrarianmusic.com
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The debut release from The Contrarian was 2001's harrowing "Cult of the Dead Rockstar." It is now an out-of-print collector's item. 

"The Contrarian" arrived in 2003. Ambient glitch with a dream-pop bow. 

"Soft Rock," from 2005, combined toothsome pop and musique concrète. 

2007's "Northern Lights" was a nod to flamboyant '70s pomp-rock. 

2009 brought "Eldritch Musicks," a song-cycle inspired by early 20th-century weird fiction scribes such as HP Lovecraft and Arthur Machen. 

2010 saw the release of "Farewell Plutonia," an epic rock cycle about all manner of daring escape.

The EP "Margins" was released in 2011, followed shortly by the technicolor heaviness of "Arjuna" the same year. 

Most recently, The Contrarian took a deep-dive into "occult-rock" with Advanced Magick for Beginners, which fuses the psychedelic witchery of early Fairport Convention with thrumming guitar menace.

In 2015, the Domina Abundia EP took a death-pop detour to frozen space in the name of science. At least that's what the mission brief said.

The Contrarian refrains from live performance, preferring the hermetic confines of his Sounds of the Baskervilles studio to the many stages he's graced.

Sara Curtin is a songwriter, performer and producer in Washington, DC. As one half of the award-winning female duo The Sweater Set, Sara has won the Washington Area Music Awards for Best Folk-Contemporary Group (2011-2013) and Best Folk-Contemporary Recording (Oh Visitor 2013). She is a strong and warm alto vocalist and multi-instrumentalist confidently writing and performing on the electric & acoustic guitars, ukulele, accordion, synthesizers, percussion, and piano.

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