Who is this Band?

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

They say some of the best things come with Halloween: candy; mystical
costumed connections; and on October 31st, 2008 Emerged the Brooklyn-
based electronic duo, Live Footage. Mike Thies and Topu Lyo first met at
a 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. Birthed 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 looping as well.  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, Fela Kuti and
Beach House.
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 full-length independent album is already available, their
upcoming mixtape can be expected for late 2010.  In the meantime,
Live Footage will be touring America while fulfilling their residency at the
Apotheke in NYC and awaiting their much-anticipated 2011 European
tour.

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