Artist Profile - Caural

Better known as Caural, Chicago bred musician Zachary Mastoon has established a production voice that bridges cutting edge electronics with left-field hip-hop. His releases for Chocolate Industries and expert remix work for a number of cutting edge indie labels bend beat-based Eastern, Western, live, and electronic music to his own rules. His elaborate compositions are built from the drums up, adding tiny samples of disjointed sounds and live instruments to create compositions that are both structured and organic. An accomplished performer, Caural utilizes drum and music triggers, turntables, samplers, and a sea of effects to recreate his compositions live. The tight beats, deliberate sequencing, heavy bass, and subtle jazz touches that are instrumental to his work are similar to those of Four Tet, Prefuse 73, and Daedelus, but distinct enough to have established Caural as a producer with a signature sound.