Biography
Dan Rincon first gained notice playing drums for Thee Oh Sees (also known as Osees), the psych-infused garage punk outfit from California, yet his interests extend across multiple stylistic paths at the same time. On his own, he crafts spare, unhurried electronic pieces that pass ambient traditions through older synthesizers, occasionally sharpening their straightforward lines with a taut rhythmic drive. After extended private development of these works, he issued his initial solo statement, Spotlight City, in 2024.
Rincon entered the Northern California underground by drumming for Apache, Personal and the Pizzas, and Glitz before entering Thee Oh Sees in 2015; he performed with them on the date preserved as Live in San Francisco the following year. Although the garage punk audience valued his abilities behind the kit, his fascination with electronics dated to high school, when he first tried circuit-bending methods. By the period he joined Thee Oh Sees he had begun amassing vintage synthesizers and related equipment, and once the collection began to dominate his living space he decided to put it to use by committing material to tape. Drawing from Krautrock hero Roedelius, avant-garde and new age artist Harold Budd, and experimental electronic composer Conrad Schnitzler, Rincon worked in his home studio on the fourteen tracks that formed Spotlight City. The results stay largely restrained and measured in tempo, grow quicker and more forceful in places, and turn toward modular synthesis at intervals; the music drew the ear of Osees bandleader John Dwyer, who issued the album on his Castle Face Records imprint in May 2024.
Rincon entered the Northern California underground by drumming for Apache, Personal and the Pizzas, and Glitz before entering Thee Oh Sees in 2015; he performed with them on the date preserved as Live in San Francisco the following year. Although the garage punk audience valued his abilities behind the kit, his fascination with electronics dated to high school, when he first tried circuit-bending methods. By the period he joined Thee Oh Sees he had begun amassing vintage synthesizers and related equipment, and once the collection began to dominate his living space he decided to put it to use by committing material to tape. Drawing from Krautrock hero Roedelius, avant-garde and new age artist Harold Budd, and experimental electronic composer Conrad Schnitzler, Rincon worked in his home studio on the fourteen tracks that formed Spotlight City. The results stay largely restrained and measured in tempo, grow quicker and more forceful in places, and turn toward modular synthesis at intervals; the music drew the ear of Osees bandleader John Dwyer, who issued the album on his Castle Face Records imprint in May 2024.
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