Micachu and "maker" music (Boing Boing Video)

Boing Boing Video: http://www.boingboing.net/boing-boing-video/

In this episode, our UK-based music correspondent introduces us to minimalist/electro/glitch trio Micachu and the Shapes. 21-year-old songwriter/musician/MC Mica "Micachu" Levi leads the band, with Raisa Khan on keyboards and Marc Pell on drums.

They're destined to win a Grammy for best use of a vacuum cleaner in a melodic noise composition. Well, whatever, maybe not, but I love that they use a "hoover" as a voice modulation accessory on-stage, and they build or mod other instruments from odd origins.

In our Boing Boing video interview, they joke about the vacuum cleaner thing being a gimmick, but it's cheap and punk and I like it. Micachu's debut record is due out in a couple weeks (early February, 2009), and was produced by the acclaimed electronic musician Matthew Herbert.

As is the case with many of the bands Russell introduces us to in these Boing Boing interviews, his timing is prescient. Music critics in the UK are using headlines like "Is Micachu The Next Big Thing?" which probably means: yes. But we wouldn't hear about them in the US otherwise for months.

Read more about Micachu at Boing Boing:
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/01/21/bb-video-micachu-and.html

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• glitch
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[penniecore]

fucking awesome! micahchu is just UNIQUE!

[Joikaband]

most amazing newcomer of the year!

[alexgowers]

chaz and dave MKII

[jasonscottpage]

"we get bored quite quickly" is reason for change.

I like that about Mica

[nusphere]

I don't get it.

[NeonGrungeNeonGrunge]

@junglesound ummmm... because she was, though what shes doing now isn't grime but the kewesachu and filthy friends mixtapes that she put out in the past were

[NakedJKid]

01:29 just have a scratch of my ass

[TheJunglesound]

FUCKING INDIE PEICE OF SHIT HOW THE FUCK DARE SHE CLAIM SHES AN MC OR THAT SHE MADE GRIME??

[americaninvasion07]

@jnld5 hahaha yeah i met her like 3 days ago and she was so short it was awesome..hahaha

[pipaz89]

new wave of genre. awesome

[jnld5]

If anyone gets the chance, you have to see them live. AMAZING! and she's teeny tiny in person - adorable