Portland, Maine-based producer/multi-instrumentalist C Money Burns has been quietly putting together his unique brand of wistful, cosmic jazz harmonies intertwined with alien melodies and intricate, hip hop-influenced beat programming since the mid-90's, often incorporating the talents of vocalists and other musicians from around the world. His music draws from disparate influences, from the Warp backcatalogue to 60's baroque chamber-pop to Serialist tone-poems, and could be described alternately as retro-futurist mathfunk, pulsing film-noir backdrop or maximalist filter disco depending on what you hear (and when you hear it).
Burns' genre-spanning material, productions and remixes have been released on a number of independent and boutique labels worldwide, such as brick.city.media, Fuller/Essex, Milled Pavement, Gamble, Cornmeal and Portland Records. Burns has also played with, remixed and produced a number of bands and performers, including CMJ-charting slowcore collective Seekonk, neo-soul rap surrealist Nomar Slevik, indie synthpop purveyors Satellite Lot, live disco house band Slowing Room, literate indie hip-hop crew Sandbag and spacey alt-country combo An Evening With...
