Artist:The Seaport & The Airport

A half-Dutch NZ native raised on the Napier fault line, The Seaport & The Airport (aka Oscar Wuts) cut his teeth in the country's capital city drumming in indie bands, with the occasional early-hours stint playing jungle records in dark corners of half-empty bars. Crossing the ditch in 2005 to man the drum stool of a Sydney-based math-rock outfit, and after chartering beats for ensembles for the better part of the past decade, The Seaport & The Airport has grown into a legitimate solo project fuelled by Wuts’ audio-dissection obsession. Taking his cues from the dismembered breaks of early µ-ZIQ material & weaved with Clams Casino-style vocal severing, Wuts tips a hat to the 90's electronic/shoegaze scene championed by early Too Pure artists (Mouse on Mars, Seefeel, Laika), finding its place between the mechanics of drum & bass and the drones of post-rock as it intersects trip-hop's golden years. Following singles in 2014 ('An Old Bride', 7") and 2015 ('Nobody Wants To Be Here & ...