After two years of jamming without ever really considering a tangible release, new Ottawa band Danny Deleto is starting to flush out tracks from its clogged up reservoirs of sound. Drawing on elements of IDM (intelligent electronic music), hip-hop and indie rock, members Daniel Reid and Eimhin Rooney build up songs with blaring synths, glitchy drums, mangled guitars and field recordings before smashing them to pieces and remaking them from ruin. Their first release, Satursnakes – which they hope to be the first EP in a steady stream of free, download-only releases – is available at www.dannydeleto.com. "We make songs pretty conventionally," said Reid, “but then we break them down into loops and dissect like surgeons. When the anaesthesia wears off, the song wakes up creaking, popping and sputtering.” The pair manage to congeal found sounds – like the creaking of hinges inside a dumpster to the clicks and static of old electronics – into their otherwise cohesive pop songs using a rare instrument called a Monome (a programmable controller with rows of glowing buttons that trigger sampled sounds and effects from a computer). The weird tool looks like it might have come straight from a telephone operator’s switchboard in the 1960s. “It’s really such a practical piece of equipment,” said Rooney (also a member of Ottawa band Crush Buildings), who plays everything from keyboards to a piece of unwound masking tape on the record. “It’s not like a weird circuit bent keyboard. It can do anything.” <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/danny+deleto">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.