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About Me

For more than two decades or so, Scott Cortez has been wrangling, warping, and coaxing all manner of gossamery textures from his guitars and effects pedals and recording them onto his trusty Tascam 4-track. He began experimenting with loops and sound in high school and made textural ambient guitar music. Expanding on an idea that had first been embraced by mbv and eno, he has made a career out of heavily treated guitar drones and noises. one of the largest misconceptions about lovesliescrushing concerns their music itself, people mistakenly assume that they use keyboards or synthesizers to create their otherworldly sound, the music is created with just voice and guitar.cortez uses a combination of techniques, both lo-fi and digital, to create a unique sonic palette. he is fond of mutating the guitar till it is barely recognizeable, regarding it as a mere tone generator. he also utilizes various methods and materials for preparing the guitar. scott has been known to abuse his guitars with chopsticks, rubberbands, nails, knives, forks, vibrators, paintbrushes, or metal rulers to bow strings, anything to change the timbral quality. lovesliescrushing formed in the spring of 91 and began playing shows in michigan. in the spring of 92 they moved to tucson and finished bloweyelashwish. the cassette version of bloweyelashwish came out in 93 on projekt, but that was a remix from the earlier self released version from the summer of 92. noise bliss, culled from a 4 track. Lovesliescrushing occupies that musical terrain that combines the like of My Bloody Valentine, Seefeel, the Cocteau Twins, eno, MAIN, and zoviet france.Scott Cortez is now playing noise pop guitar for STAR.

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Member Since: 5/14/2005
Band Members: SCOTT CORTEZ guitar. voice. loops enviroments. foundations. noise/ MELISSA DUIMSTRA (ARPIN) voice/ANDREW PRINZ guitar/ ANA BRETON voice/
Influences: DIGITECH PDS 8000 pedal, ALESIS MIDIVERB 2. TASCAM 4 TRACK. noise and silence, non musical sources, classical music, cage, eno,
Sounds Like: am radio static, vacuum cleaners, strings, organs, skipping cd's, vinyl, tape hiss, buzzing amps, drones. guitar looped reverb heaven.
Record Label: WAVERTONE, projekt, sonic syrup
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

melissa arpin-duimstra artwork

Melissa, the singer for lovesliescrushing, also makes artwork that is available for purchase. check it out here. http://cgi.ebay.com/Black-Birds-Pop-Art-Vintage-Collage-Pain ting-MA-d_W0QQitemZ3202625...
Posted by on Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:05:00 GMT

short review of CHORUS

(Robin Guthrie) In 2007 I was introduced to the album Chorus by LovesLiesCrushing. This album is a delight and takes my breath away. It's rare to experience the human voice simply as a raw material, b...
Posted by on Fri, 28 Dec 2007 07:38:00 GMT

GIRL ECHO SUNS VEILS

the next llc album GIRL ECHO SUNS VEILS is set for an early 2008 release on projekt. the deluxe version is a limited release of 300, and consists of a digipak, booklet, and a bonus disc contained...
Posted by on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 11:19:00 GMT

CHORUS limited edition 500, import

CHORUS in limited edition digipak of 500 will be ready on 9/29. It is being pressed up by Automatic in Peru and designed by Andrew Prinz of Mahogany. Finally, after two years of hellish setbacks ...
Posted by on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:37:00 GMT

old school

Old school tracks for those who would like a little history. These songs are from  91 - 92 and are some of the first llc tracks. This is the original full length version of lips to kiss, it will ...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:55:00 GMT

ll. chronology

llc. chronology 1987-alesis midiverb,guitarwash excursions delay and reverb soakedexperiments.1988-guitar instrumentals1989-meet kirk marrison[fibreforms, waterwheel, kiln] and t.j. martin[stone man ...
Posted by on Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:28:00 GMT

opuszine talks about CHORUS

In the past, lovesliescrushing's sound has always been identified by its lack of drums and its reliance on Scott Cortez' skill at wreaking all manner of beautiful sonic mayhem from his guitar. If you ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

whales are the dj's of the ocean

i was at work here and a co-worker listened to the new llc acappella tracks. she said it sounded like whale songs. then she said that whales are the dj's of the ocean. i just looked at her silently fo...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

LOCHHEED is mach dope

just letting y'all know that you heard it hear first, LOCHHEED is going to be the shit. the new project featuring adam and catherine cooper of alison's halo fame is ready to blow it up supersonic styl...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT

lovesliescrushing CHORUS

the making of the new album was rather difficult. i usually place limitations on myself to make things interesting, such as getting rid of the drums. that limitation has held up for at least 4 albums ...
Posted by on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 00:00:00 GMT