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Listen Up: Electric GuestOctober 2 4:30 PMby Dan Hyman 0 CommentsPhoto: Noah AbramsNot until they had completed their debut album did Asa Taccone and Matthew "Cornbread" Compton of Electric Guest comprehend the fact that they were even a band. The LA duo, known for combining equal parts funk and propulsive dance chug, played together singer Taccone's bedroom for several years. But only after wrapping a multi-month recording session earlier this year with acclaimed producer Brian "Danger Mouse" Burton, did reality set in. "After the very last days of mixing in the studio, we were like 'Oh! Were a band,'" Taccone recalls.The result of their hard work, a full-length album titled Mondo, debuted last April. The group may be a relatively new sighting on tastemakers radars, but the two musicians extended history is evident via Mondos airtight grooves. In the song, This Head I Hold, Taccones neon soul falsetto coach factory store online coasts atop Comptons swinging percussion, and American Daydream finds Compton holding court on the bass drum as Taccones slinky melodies breeze by.The songs that appear on Mondo, Taccone says, were written over the course of the past decadefrom the baby stages of his songwriting career to the present day. When the singer and drummer first met in 2005, Taccone had been cutting his teeth coach factory outlet online writing tunes for TV (he scored an Emmy nod for his work on Lonely Island's "Dick in a Box"). So he primarily penned instrumental tricks, only adding his own voice later as a placeholder. It may have stayed that way if not for Danger Mouse. The producer convinced him to share his pipes coach factory outlet with the world. "I'd play him demos for years," Taccone recalls. "And after a while, he said 'I like your singing on this. You shouldn't just keep it as a reference vocal. You should actually be singing it.'" It was Burton who also persuaded Taccone that he and Compton should enter the studio. Coach factory outlet online Reflecting on the Mondo sessions now, the singer looks at the coach factory outlet songs as something of a scrapbook. The songs have been around for coach factory outlet online so long; it feels like this is a collection of a ton of different places and years, he notes.Even now, Compton, who first bonded with Taccone over a shared love of obscure music, admits that he never had an inclination of where his work with Taccone was headed. Rather, he was simply excited to go along for the ride. I thought the songs might never make it out of Asa's bedroom, he says. But all along, I thought, its still gong to be really cool when it's done."
