Heartland is the debut from 24 year old Portland, Oregon resident Dylan Stark created from thousands of samples. It's been described as part BURIAL, a dash of ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, with the coming of age pureness of GRIMES.
Amongst the vast array of sounds that make up each track are samples from a multitude of video games, children's television programmes, Pokemon, Russian youtube cover versions, radio advertisements for Bollywood movies and WWE wrestling bells. There are recordings of street markets in Indonesia and Morocco, trees growing, glaciers retreating, choirs from the Melanesian islands, the US womens cheerleading championships and 1000's more vibrant and diverse elements. Intensely layered, infinitely detailed the sound of a diver hitting the water in a public pool combined with the sound of a match igniting becomes a snare, the sounds of birds screeching and chirping is slowed down hundreds of times to become sweeping spacy atmosphere.
