Who is this Band?

Hello.  We’re Live Footage.  Here’s a little information about us and what we’re doing these days..

In 2008 a humble basement apartment in Brooklyn became the laboratory for the Brooklyn-based electroacoustic duo, Live Footage. Mike Thies and Topu Lyo first met at
a Halloween party, unaware that years later they would be described as some of the
finest “surrealist soundtrack composers” in the making by scoring some
of the most eclectic contemporary pieces on air, in dance and in tune
composing their own music. Conceived through the art of improvisation,
Lyo plays cello, incorporating the use of live loops and a handful of
electronics with no pre-recorded samples of any kind.  Thies plays drums
and keyboards, often simultaneously.  Live Footage’s formula is unique:
songs are structured in such a way that enables them to actually build
loops without disaster, all while keeping the music’s integrity and allowing
ample room for improvisation even when covering the likes of Jay-Z, Dr. Dre and
Squarepusher.
It is Live Footage’s coherent complexity that inherently wow’s new ears
away. Plain and simple, they are “cinematic, experimental, yet still catchy
and melodic.”
Their first & Second full-length independent albums are already available on itunes, their
Jay Dee EP is currently live on Orisue’s Website.  In the meantime,
Live Footage will be touring America, Canada, Korea, and Europe while fulfilling their bi-weekly residency at
Apotheke in NYC.

Our friend Fred Lee made a cool video where we explain how it all started: