Marc Francis walks into his local watering hole looking a bit haggard and weary. "Sorry i'm late, been on the road", he yawns. This is his first full day back from a 60 day tour as taperecorder and the smile on his face and gleam in his eyes hint at what may have happened. "Let's just say that it was filled with adventure, love, late nights, music, and great people"

A chameleonic interpreter of genres.

Hailing from the more indie-centric side of electronic music, Marc Francis was the mastermind behind legendary house music collective Intergalactic Faerie Funk and the decidedly folkier Mossyrock. Now, this restless soul has been reincarnated under the name taperecorder, creating a shoegazing-crunk house hybrid as suited to cocooned winter days as to sweaty late-night adventuring.

Originally a side project of Francis’, taperecorder came into full flourish at the dawn of 2009. Having dissolved Mossyrock, an exhausted Francis vowed to take a step back from the savage schedule of touring and recording that had marked the previous three years. Berlin beckoned and he answered the call without reserve, spending two months in the spectre of the former Iron Curtain, crafting bold sounds that reflected his new philosophy of depending on no-one but himself. From the murky alleyways and dark speakeasies of urban Germany, taperecorder was born.

Francis is aided in his quest by vocalist/guitarist Bethany Spiers, bassist/mastermixer Jeffro Richards and vocalist Jenn Mierau, but the focal point continues to be the dispatches that he has translated from the frequencies in his head. Pasting jaunty acoustic melodies onto shadowy blips and glitches, fusing poppy electronics with lush pads, taperecorder carves love letters from the everyday, written by a born wanderer to his beautiful, impossible world.

Hailing from the more indie-centric side of electronic music, Francis is the mastermind behind the legendary house music collective IFF (Intergalactic Faerie Funk) and the decidedly folkier Mossyrock, and now this restless soul has a new incarnation under the charming moniker taperecorder. Combining winning elements of Mossyrock with hybrid bouncy beats, taperecorder fuses poppy electronics with lush pads and twangy guitars to create glistening pop loop gems that leave you feeling part of a woozy, lilting waltz

Bouncing between Glasgow and Toronto as a small child gave him an early taste of the travel bug that soon found his way into his heart. This and his love of music was the impetus behind putting together a rag tag band armed with samplers and sequencers and hitting the wide open road in a kind of non stop tour of North America. "I was living in vans, sleeping at rest stops, and playing in cities i had only ever dreamed of." And then suddenly one day after a particularly gruelling three month tour had finished up, Francis found himself alone in a spooky old house set in the middle of the California desert with no band, no van, no neighbours, and no money. IFF was over. "It was a pretty bleak time. Bleak with a gorgeous view." He pauses to wash down a shot of whiskey with a swig of cheap beer. "It was a strange time" he continues "out of the blue the dance parties stopped and I had no one. I'd sit down to write some house music or do some remixes for people and I couldn't do it. I was faking it. The only music it seemed I could make were these songs about beauty and sadness and ghosts and being lonesome." He was playing less and less with his old samplers and sequencers and a lot more with a guitar and mandolin. Long before the Books and Lemon Jelly, Marc began combining his acoustic instruments with warbly glitches and jumble sale beats. "At the time it was all very lonely and strange. I had no idea what i was doing. Little did i know i was just setting myself up for the next great adventure."

After locking himself in a small Canadian town art gallery for ten rowdy nights of recording and mixing all the new music he had laying around, he suddenly found himself living in Brooklyn with an art school girl and a full length album on his hands. He put together a new band and called it Mossyrock. Heavy weight Toronto label Nice+Smooth stepped up and released the album which was titled 'the Zero to One Sessions' and, much to his delight, Marc soon found himself back on the road for the better part of three years. He found himself constantly criss crossing North America and Europe playing everywhere from intimate venues to huge festivals while garnering glowing reviews from the likes of Resonance Magazine a nd the Guardian U.K. After this savage touring schedule, releasing three Mossyrock EPs, hitchhiking across canada, and a break up with a raven haired lover who was also the main singer; Francis took a step back. "I went off to Berlin and spent a few months in the dark cold winter with nowhere to be and no one to please but myself. Wait, that sounds dirty." this is where taperecorder was born.

Marc Francis has lived and played all over this lonely planet, and his wandering sensibilities are apparent in the sounds of taperecorder. The Pacific Rim is blended with the broken windshields of Brooklyn and California desert nights walk arm in arm with mornings in Berlin. That is to say, taperecorder takes the sounds from around us in the every day and transforms them in to new sounds. All backed up with intricate yet highly danceable beats. It's the haunting feelings that taperecorder captures and will be performing when the born rambler makes his way around the world once again...

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TapeRecorder:

Expozed and GMC meet from the very beginning of their faculty obligation. They realized

that they have same passion about music, especially for electronic music.

Soon they started to exchange their songs and mixes, making hard critics to each other and consulting what to change

they decided to meet once or twice a week at GMC place to made a serious noise and damage to his speakers.

There was no compromise, from one extreme to the other, mostly their production various from sick,dark and deep minimal to mellow and ambient down-temp.

It was very interesting to hear two different styles collide in one, in one moment it sounded like noise of million mosquito put in effect box but in other, like mellow and airy strings with reasonable musical notes.

They put some hard work on their production to achieve a bit of perfection, although every new song was perfection to it self, different and unique.With lots of problems such as lack of equipment, they managed to succeed their goal and find a way to wide audience.

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