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alto45

Lab-tastic

About Me

Lab-coat wearing lo-fi popsters, supplying small town melancholia, to anyone with five minutes to spare.

Brought together by a shared love of car boots sales, robots, Daniel Johnston and the mid-range audio frequencies. An eclectic mix of lo-fi pop, downbeat and experimental electronica in the vein of Grandaddy, Leonard Cohen and Add n to (x), if you will.

Originally from the countryside, now residing in uptown Norwich, alto45 release records on their own Happy Capitalist Recordings along with other releases on Sickroom GC, Robots and Electronic Brains, NROne, Howlback/Mummy Where's The Milkman and MQ Projects.

"Like Graham Coxon doing rudies with the Postal Service" NME

"Quietly, underwhelmingly excellent" Damn Pest Fanzine

"Casio-esque interstellar synth-fi to slow, lulling indie-scapes" Drowned In Sound

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 10/21/2005
Band Website: alto45.co.uk
Band Members: Jim 45, Steve 45 & Joe 45
Record Label: Happy Capitalist Recordings
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Sessions, Gigs and Albums

Hello all, news from camp alto is that we bundled ourselves off to Bury St Edmunds in the middle of the night a few weeks ago to record our first ever radio session, with a nice man called Mr Jason an...
Posted by alto45 on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 07:51:00 PST

Alto 45 radio!

Well almost...The Alto 45 jukebox is now up and running at www.alto45.co.uk.Happy Capitalist Recordings now have a downloads section on their site, where you can download all of our Mp3s, as well as b...
Posted by alto45 on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 12:25:00 PST

Mp3s!

Well, after some furious web coding by our webgeeks at Happy Capitalist Towers, Alto45's music is now available as Mp3's! So, if you fancy a bit of lofi fuzzy pop on your IPod, call on Happy Capitalis...
Posted by alto45 on Mon, 03 Apr 2006 09:55:00 PST

Busy Boys

Phew, a busy month here at Alto Towers. We have updated, changed, ammended and improved both our websites: www.happycapitalist.co.uk and www.alto45.co.uk You can now order records direct from the H...
Posted by alto45 on Sat, 28 Jan 2006 07:36:00 PST

Happy New Year!

Well, here we are, another new year. Had a great party round Joe and Julia's last night. Feeling surprisingly good today. Had good food, nice people and a baby called Elsie! What more could you want. ...
Posted by alto45 on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:12:00 PST

Happy New Year!

Well, here we are, another new year. Had a great party round Joe and Julia's last night. Feeling surprisingly good today. Had good food, nice people and a baby called Elsie! What more could you want. ...
Posted by alto45 on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:12:00 PST

Uggghh

Arrrgh someone wake me up please.... 
Posted by alto45 on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 10:19:00 PST

Help - slappers about!

The three of us ran into two ladies of the slapper variety last night. Slightly scary in a funny way. They liked Jims stripey jumper, and told him not to fold his arms so much. Threatened to show us t...
Posted by alto45 on Sun, 30 Oct 2005 01:39:00 PST

Working too hard

Arrrgh, fridays hurt!
Posted by alto45 on Fri, 28 Oct 2005 11:09:00 PST

Sunday morning

Been scanning photos all morning. Its been a journey back in time, all my great aunts and uncles, grandads and grannies. Ahhh memories.
Posted by alto45 on Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:58:00 PST