Montano

No synths, no drum machines, only samples from the streets of Melbourne.

Montano is a project of two ex-pat New Zealanders in Melbourne, Australia - Michael Upton (Jet Jaguar) and Shanan Holm (Octif). Over the course of two years, we transformed street corners, railway stations and the Queen Victoria markets. Every sound in our compositions was originally sourced from recordings of Melbourne's inner city, with washing chords formed from snippets of squealing trams, melodies made from automated train announcements, and beats assembled from crickets, crossing signals and fork lifts. The results are some surprisingly poppy electronic tracks with fragments of the raw city sounds coming through the mix.