MidCoast LIVE! presents Bobcat Attack

MidCoast LIVE! presents Bobcat Attack

Friday, October 18, 2024
12:00 Noon to 1:00 PM
LIVE on 90.1 FM KKFI

Hosted by Mark Manning

Host Mark Manning welcomes Bobcat Attack who will play a live concert in our 90.1 FM studios during our 60 minute show.

Bobcat Attack, is the moniker of electronic music artist Nathan Reusch. Nathan is co-founder of The Record Machine an area music label celebrating 21 years! Nathan grew up in hanging out at Recycled Sounds with Anne Winter & Billy Smith and influenced by emo/punk, first started making electronic music as Bobcat Attack in the early 2000s, opening for acts like Taking Back Sunday, Mewihoutyou, Coheed and Cambria, Joy Electric, Atom & His Package, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Yacht. In 2003, Nathan started, The Record Machine, and in 2011, he co-founded KC’s Middle of the Map Fest. Nathan’s focus on making music came to a halt. Under Nathan’s leadership The Record Machine has been a home for: Static Phantoms, Monta at Odds, Various Blonde, Cowboy Indian Bear, LaGuerre, The Philistines, and Black Light Animals and many more.

The pandemic inspired Reusch to dust off his Bobcat Attack moniker and renewed his interest in making this own music. After a few months of experimenting with patches and midi cables, he joined KC’s Synth Collective and found a group of similarly-minded electronic musicians.

On September 20, 2024, Bobcat Attack released his first single, “Pallas” a pulsing track with a bouncing melody over ambient architecture. This released marked the beginning of Les Bonbons Electriques, an imprint of The Record Machine, a collaboration between Reusch and electronic musician Mark Ronning (Pool Culture, Mr. Golden Sun). Les Bonbons Electriques (“electric candy” in French) is a new imprint that will focus on artistry, experimentation, and electronic music. For Reusch’s project Bobcat Attack, where his modular synthesizer is the center of his electronic, ambient, and dub techno-influenced music, Les Bonbons Electriques is the perfect label match.

Since the project’s inception, Bobcat Attack has continued to evolve in style: ambient to dub to techno. It’s fitting that their current musical habitat would contain all their explored genres, pumping through a modular synthesizer. Under its glaze of ambient drones and reverbs are punctuating chord stabs and pulsing 909 kicks, dripping with influences of trip hop and dub. Bobcat Attack is a subtle machinist, operating a quiet conveyer belt, processing and re-processing the same signals, but with each cycle the output changes, gradually growing new arms and legs in a song. His music could pull your own body into its rhythm or make you fade into its cloud, but either way you become immersed inside of it.

Connect with The Record Machine and Les Bonbons Electriques
@therecordmachine
@lesbonbonselectriques
@bobcatattack.me
@thehouse.band


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