Sxip Shirey and Adam Matta
 

This year I spent part of my New Year's Eve listening to these two guys perform in a dark, cavernous space in Boston. They're really small time and I had never heard of them before but I was completely blown away by the performance. All there is to the music is Adam Matta beatboxing and Sxip Shirey playing various novelty instruments through a couple effects pedals but live they are absolutely freaking amazing. The little nuances are what make the music interesting so I highly recommend listening to these three clips either with headphones or through a pair of decent speakers. Anyway, here are the clips:

This is rad, i couldn't find a myspace, is there one?

They each have individual myspace pages but they don't have one together:

MySpace.com - sxip shirey - BROOKLYN, New York - Other / Experimental / Roots Music - www.myspace.com/sxipshirey

MySpace.com - adam matta - New York, New York - Experimental / A'cappella / Drum & Bass - www.myspace.com/adammatta

Thanks big, this is great.

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So, almost exactly four years after making this thread, I finally got around to getting the album Sxip Shirey put out a few years ago, Sonic New York, and it's glorious (love the album art too). Yes, the whole "love letter to NYC" concept has been done many time before but this album really feels like the mish mash of that city. Beatboxing, toy instruments, folk, jazz, electronica, hip hop, experimentalism—all of them collide on these tracks. The aesthetics fall somewhere between Tricky and The Flaming Lips, though junkier and more DYI sounding than either. Really worth a listen if that sounds appealing to you, and when you do, keep in mind that most of what you're hearing is product of mouths, toy instruments and effects pedals, as you can see in the videos above.

Anyway, the dude doesn't have any studio stuff on YouTube that I can find, but here's his bandcamp page: Sxip Shirey

Recommended tracks:

• I Live in New York City
• Aspleep on the Subway
• Mehenatta
• A Young Man Walks in Brooklyn