Cut And Paste, by Oscar Scheller

Cut And Paste

by Oscar Scheller

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1.	Sometimes 03:46	buy track
2.	Be Good 02:53	buy track
3.	Feel It Too 02:34	buy track
4.	Good Things 03:42	buy track
5.	Only Friend (feat Marika Hackman) 04:11	buy track
6.	Breaking My Phone 02:43	buy track
7.	Daffodil Days 02:58	buy track
8.	Fifteen 03:59	buy track
9.	Beautiful Words 03:38	buy track
10.	Gone Forever 03:39	buy track

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Immersed in music right from the start of his life, both at home (his parents fronted the pop band, The Regents; his father went on to produce early Acid House records) as well as in the musical hotpot that was his native North West London, Cut and Paste is a heady melange of the many musical styles Oscar Scheller absorbed growing up.

You can hear the clear influence of a West London upbringing in the bashment rhythm of “Be Good” or the dub bassline and echo of the anthemic, uplifting “Good Things”. You’re hit by the boom-bap breakbeat of his beloved mid-90s hip hop on “Breaking My Phone” and “Beautiful Words”, before swooning to his more tender side on “Only Friend”, where Oscar is joined by Marika Hackman for a gorgeous duet over a sea of bubbling synths, or “Fifteen”, an addictive love song, ragged at the edges and wearing its heart defiantly on its sleeve.

Despite the wide range of influences on display, the album is unified by Scheller’s beautiful baritone vocal and his keen ear for a melody. And although self-produced, the resulting album by no means contains the average lo-fi, crackly sound one might expect from someone tagged as a “bedroom producer”.

Choosing the strongest songs from the demos that originally attracted Wichita to his music, Scheller set about re-recording the vast majority of the elements at home – not missing the opportunity to step into a proper studio to add live drums (played by his drummer, Aramis Gorriette), alongside his own drum machine programming and sampled breaks for the first time. These new recordings were then passed on to Ben Baptie (Adele, Mark Ronson, Lianne La Havas, Albert Hammond Jr. etc.) to be mixed and to have the dub-influence turned up further with the subtle echo effects that you can hear throughout if you listen carefully.

Overall, Cut and Paste is the sound of a new musical prodigy well and truly arriving, and a more than worthy addition to the lineage of eccentric, classic British pop.

credits

released May 13, 2016

All songs written by Oscar Scheller and published by Lucky Number Music,
except track 9 (Scheller/Furze) published by Lucky Number Music Ltd./Copyright Control.

All songs recorded and produced by Oscar Scheller.
Additional recording by Jimmy Robertson at Fish Factory, London.
Drums played by Aramis Gorriette and bass played by Kamran Khan.
Backing vocals on tracks 4 and 9 by Rebecca Scheller and on track 1 by Florence Van Camerijk.

Mixed by Ben Baptie at Strongroom, London.
Mastered by John Davis at Metropolis, London.

Marika Hackman appears courtesy of Dirty Hit Records.

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Oscar Scheller London, UK

Oscar Scheller’s music is meant to save British pop. Fader and Pitchfork were early champions of his dubbing it “unabashedly personal pop” and he quickly signed to Wichita. His first album garnered huge praise from the likes of The Guardian, NME, Les InRockuptibles & Stern. He has also become a prolific writer and producer for some very exciting new talent including Mabel, Mae Muller and GIRLI. ... more

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May 1

The Grace

London, UK
Sep 15

Hospitalkirche

Schwäbisch Hall, Germany

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