Matt lives in Auckland. He used to make bliss-out jams in Street Beat, you may have seen him as recently as last month under the moniker, playing alongside Dear Time’s Waste on their NZ tour. However, following the tour, he’s decided to ditch the name for Ghost Wave, which is probs waaaay more befitting of his ethereal pulse vibes – his music isn’t so much beats as it is layers, taking cues from usual suspects like Person Pitch and putting it all through an Ariel Pink AM radio filter, resulting in some pretty amazing dream loops, pretty isolated / desolate, sure, but still managing to convey positive summer vibes. Sooli’s electronic birdcall opening descends into looped minimalist clatter, and comes off as far more, well organic I guess, than the sum of it’s parts. It’s a really natural feel that seems pretty synonymous with his work as Street Beat. In addition to that, here’s a jam which, from what I can gather, is a demo ahead of a forthcoming full-length, and one of the first tracks recorded as Ghost Wave. It carries way more urgency (not to mention more of a beat), live drumming carrying the decidedly more spooked sunshine tendencies along it’s way. ANYWAY, with a blog-friendly name (amirite?) like Ghost Wave, a possible full band on the way, and more hazy looped goodness like this spilling out of local areas (oh hey whassup Signer), hopefully Ghost Wave will be a name we get to hear wayy more often.
