Beat the Monday blues with an uplifting, driven or motivating song to get you going through the rest of the day, maybe even the rest of the week. Today’s music is “Deathtouch” by Shadowrunner and Jacket.
Jacket (stylised in all lower case as “jacket.”) is the moniker of Peter Vaughn, an American producer from Colorado. His musical journey started just under two decades ago and he describes his current sound as a manifestation of his passions and anxieties in the form of emotional, electronic music. His songs carry themes of love and hope, but also of darker moments in life that Vaughn believes need to be acknowledged in order to live a full and balanced life.
Shadowrunner, a.k.a Christian Trumpower is an American producer from Portland, OR. Currently living his 14th year as a resident of Los Angeles, Trumpower began learning music at the age of 7, moving to the guitar at 9 and composition at 13. After a short time playing and touring with different bands, he left the scene and began studying after he became a father. He returned to making music around 4 years ago when he realised how much it helped him battle his mental health issues.
The music I make is a direct conduit to conduct and express my inner turmoil and struggles with mental health and the resulting self-disenfranchisement and isolation that are most likely the result of my upbringing in a house of abuse and my subsequent drug abuse and homelessness. I cannot live without making it, which I discovered during my hiatus when I went back to school to figure out how to support my son. I felt empty. When I started writing again, I felt much better.
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Deathtouch was the result of the two producers exchanging works in progress. They settled on a rough Shadowrunner demo to expand on and together began to create a sound reminiscent of the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie “Bloodsport”. Due to living so far apart from each other, all exchanges were made online, so the two have never actually met in person. However despite their geographical differences, they considered the work on Deathtouch so rewarding that many more collaborations are currently on the cards.
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