DJ COMPTON PALMS | nl

Whether living four states away or four blocks away, Reese Donohue and Christopher Prudhomme have always used the Internet -- at first out of necessity, later out of preference -- to collaborate on their songwriting. Although the cousins grew up together in Lafayette, Louisiana, Donohue eventually moved to San Francisco, while Prudhomme stayed near New Orleans. The newfound distance between them forced the pair to start sending song ideas back and forth via e-mail, a virtual exchange that quickly spawned Painted Palms' first release, Canopy, which was discovered by of Montreal's Kevin Barnes Tours with of Montreal, Braids and STRFKR...

In September 2002 Sebastian Hoffmann and Holger Jansen started their apprenticeship together at a telecommunication company in Düsseldorf (Germany). They got good friends and after a while the idea to found a music band was born. So they started in March 2004 with Compton Effekt. The band name has got two significances. Firstly it is a physical process, observed by Arthur Holly Compton in 1923, for which he earned the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physics [Compton effect (English Wikipedia) / Compton Effekt (German Wikipedia)]. Secondly it is a mix of the German words Computer, Ton and Effekt [computer, tone and...