The Clonious

Viennese guitarist, sampler, and producer Paul Movahedi was involved with a variety of post-rock, jazz, and funk-influenced projects before he attended the Red Bull Academy in Toronto in 2007, a preeminent annual event for cutting-edge musicians and artists. He began to get more heavily into producing, and in 2009, a song of his, "Valediction," made it onto the compilation Circulations and Jay Scarlett Present New Worlds. He soon got the attention of Los-Angeles-based left coast soul and electronica label Ubiquity, who signed Movahedi and released the spacy funk 12" EP, Adroit Adventures, in June 2009, under the name the Clonious, a moniker chosen because Movahedi thought it reflected his love for sampling and late-'50s to early-'60s jazz well. Finding support in the British DJ scene (both Radio 1's Mary Anne Hobbs and BBC Radio's Benji B offered early praise) as well as within the left-field Los Angeles scene, the Clonious set about putting together his debut full-length. Combining the traits of artists like <a href="spotify:artist:29XOeO6KIWxGthejQqn793">Flying Lotus</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5LhTec3c7dcqBvpLRWbMcf">Madlib</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:56j1OkSq0AMCgZGKVNc8GP">Samiyam</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0nTErwSOllrcUWt3knOG2T">Jazzanova</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:0ZsnKPvBsvvycnET2GZMrG">Prefuse 73</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:2RdnkH5txHb9c4vGwq0I31">Georgia Anne Muldrow</a> along with Movahedi's own particular Austrian take on music, Between the Dots was released on Ubiquity in October, 2009, when the producer was just 23 years old. ~ Marisa Brown, Rovi