Formerly of Le Bien and a member of Synth Eastwood, Simon Cullen’s new project Laser Tom & The Blast Crew brings together his love of electronics, disco and live instrumentation. Based around “an ever expanding crew of engineers, horn blowers, multi-instrumentalists, tub thumpers, finger pickers, programmers, samplers and strikers”, the project is in its early days but the tunes thus far on Soundcloud have been high, high quality.
Laser Tom & The Blast Crew debuts in live form at the Offset Afterparty on Saturday in the Twisted Pepper with a hybrid DJ/live set.
Here’s the Laser Tom 34 minute mix which serves as your intro into the crew’s world and as, State mix #23. Tracklisting after the jump.
MP3: State Mix #23: Laser Tom & The Blast Crew mix
Tracklisting
- Bot’Ox – Blue Steel feat Anna Jean // Blue Steel Ep
- Matthew Dear – I Can’t Feel // Black City
- Tycho – Sunrise Projector // Past Is Prologue
- Apiento & Co – Under Open Skies
- Walls – Hang Four (Loose Fit Remix) // Hang Four
- Kasper Bjoerke – Heaven (Nicolas Jaar Remix) // Heaven
- Michael J Collins -Letting Go // The Mollusk EP
- Leftside Wobble – Grapevine Boogi

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