Dylan Ettinger
Dylan Ettinger is currently based in Bloomington, Indiana, where he makes electronic muisc. He has released music through labels such as Digitalis Industries, Not Not Fun, and his own El Tule imprint.
His album "New Age Outlaws" gained a lot of attention not only for its sci-fi ambient drift created with analogue synths, but the way Dylan created an entire alternate reality around that music, referring back to a particular way of imagining the future set between the 70s and 80s. As Tiny Mixed Tapes wrote: "How can we not be fascinated by the past’s clumsy, tentatively optimistic imaginings of a future we now know doesn’t have much of a bright side?... Like so much of the new psych, 'New Age Outlaws' is less about imagining than about remembering what it was like to imagine."
The psych dub of Dylan's latest Not Not Fun EP "Lion of Juddah" suggests a new, albiet related direction, one referencing No Wave synth. Live, Dylan's shows incorporate synth and vocals, and are certainly influenced by 80s UK pop and its preoccupation with the future. One imagines that like John Foxx and and Gary Numan of a yesteryear, this young man has been reading up on his J.G.Ballard.
Dylan appears as part of a Not Not Fun showcase.
