Deastro

Randolph Chabot hails from Sterling Heights, Michigan, where he crafts indie electronica as a producer and issues his work through multiple aliases, Deastro standing out as the most celebrated. He started creating tracks while still a teenager, later left the Detroit region for several years of college studies, and eventually returned to establish his studio in the basement of his parents’ residence. The double album Young Planets/Time the Teenage Twister from 2007, issued jointly under Deastro and his Our Brother the Megazord project, marked his first recording to attract widespread notice; critics Jeff Milo and Thomas Matich singled it out in Real Detroit as one of the year’s standout releases. Keepers arrived the next year as a digital-only title available solely through eMusic and earned further praise, especially across numerous music blogs that embraced it enthusiastically. During that same 2008 period, Chabot aligned the Deastro name with Ann Arbor-based Ghostly International, making his initial appearance for the label via the track “Light Powered” on the Ghostly Swim compilation. Intent on elevating the project, he broadened Deastro’s electro-pop approach by assembling a full band, resulting in the 2009 fantasy fiction-themed album Moondagger.