Creating an alternative blend of Pop and Electro, Matt Duncan fills a gap in his polycentric home, Germany’s Ruhrarea.

Echolox captures the millennial disillusion and cynicism in an electronic, hyper-connected era. Yet shimmers of hope and love keep you from falling to the floor and assuming the fetal position in a push and shove of energetic melancholia. It’s hardly categorizable, but somehow you know exactly where it is.

Ever since plugging his guitar into a computer for the first time he embraced the complete in-the-box approach. Every song is an experiment, every bar and every lyric an inwardly focused processing attempt. After having gained production and live experience in his previous bands The Astray (Electrorock) and Salt The Skies (Post-Rock), he decided to create a new path as Echolox to focus his songwriting on the seemingly unimplementable.

First was the strictly instrumental Electronica, with echoing guitars layered on melodious synths and crooked time signatures. But things needed to be sung about the world and the focus shifted more towards what could be described as Alternative Pop.

"I try to apply the complexities learned from Math Rock and IDM to a foundation of Indie Pop. Depending on your mindset - as the listener - you can get dragged along by the apparent or focus on the meticulous. A great song captures you instantly and is easily understood while giving you something new to discover with every listen. Just like a good game is easy to learn but takes time to master."

His five-track EPs are accompanied by collections of instrumental (Laovaan Files) and fully improvised (Life Stream) Electronica, which are constantly expanded with new material that has gained popularity among speedpaint artists on YouTube.

Creating an alternative blend of Pop and Electro, Matt Duncan fills a gap in his polycentric home, Germany’s Ruhrarea.

Echolox captures the millennial disillusion and cynicism in an electronic, hyper-connected era. Yet shimmers of hope and love keep you from falling to the floor and assuming the fetal position in a push and shove of energetic melancholia. It’s hardly categorizable, but somehow you know exactly where it is.

Ever since plugging his guitar into a computer for the first time he embraced the complete in-the-box approach. Every song is an experiment, every bar and every lyric an inwardly focused processing attempt.

His five-track EPs are accompanied by collections of instrumental (Laovaan Files) and fully improvised (Life Stream) Electronica, which are constantly expanded with new material that has gained popularity among speedpaint artists on YouTube.

Melancholic Alt-Pop Electronica, mirroring the disjointed yet hyperconnected millennial life.