A Hamilton, Ontario-based electronic pop group, Junior Boys began as a duo with its duties split between Jeremy Greenspan and Johnny Dark. Influenced by a number of music sectors including arty synth pop, minimal techno, U.K. garage, and contemporary hip-hop they made a demo with no positive results. Dark opted to leave the group, but former Warp employee Nick Kilroy eventually heard the songs and became interested enough to begin his KIN label with Junior Boys as its first artist. Engineer Matt Didemus joined Greenspan, and together they recorded enough material for a full-length. Prior to the 2004 release of the resulting album, titled Last Exit, a pair of 12" singles were released one included a remix from Fennesz, while the other featured a remix from Manitoba. Three months after Last Exit's initial U.K. release, Domino picked up the album for distribution in the U.S. The Domino version added a bonus disc with B-sides and remixes from the 12" releases. The relatively slick So This Is Goodbye followed in 2006.
So I used to hold it down with INK, Candy Machine, Big Numbers and Baltimore's most low budget rap crew Narcoleptics. Low budget like carrying turntables on foot to Club Midnight. But through it all I held fast to electronic funk. Then Dave Shim taught me about garage, house, whatever you call it, and that's when things got real ill. I put out Ice Age on my own label, did remixes for Misty Roses, ova looven, Tranzistors & My Favorite, and played too many shows to count with beautiful people like ADULT., Chromatics, Captain Ahab, Supersystem, G. Rizo, DAT Politics, Wilderness, Ratatat, The Gossip, that dude Passage...
Anyway, 2006 was all about Trevor Jackson's Output Recordings (R.I.P.) - being on the same label as Yello was deep, I'll tell you what. The Tyrant 12" came out in May, jumpin off with remixes by Stranger and Polygamy Boys, followed by a series of dates in the UK, France, Canada and the east coast that ended at P.S.1's venerable Warm Up series. Right now I'm wrapping up a new full-length called Professional and doing some shows with Misty Roses. So contact me for booking or anything else.