ARTISTS
 

Blackdaylight
Thomas McCauley

 

Name: Thomas McCauley
Location :Chicago
Age:27
Producer since: 2002
DJ since:
Style: Electronica, Trip Hop, Minimal
Studio Projects: Blackdaylight

Biographie: blackdaylight is 24 year old, trip hop producer/designer/social entrepreneur Thomas McCauley. The Chicago native is notorious for his extravagant minimalist sound, abstract organic design style, frequent collaborations, not using samples, and his adamant and nearly exclusive use of FL- Studio for producing all of his music.
Mr. daylight has been producing for 5 years and has built up a huge portfolio of sonic masterpieces and has been fortunate enough to collaborate with a several incredibly talented musicians including billi d., Eliki, & Drunken Monkeee (aka Professor Gorilla Dickens)…
blackdaylight's music has been featured on various internet radio stations including: SomaFm, breakthruradio.com, Audiogrooves.com, & thenativesoul.com.
heavily influenced by dan the automator's lovage, handsome boy modeling school, & deltron 3030 projects blackdaylight initially set out for create hip hop beats with heavy doses of trip hop imagination...somewhere along the way he also discovered prefuse 73 & the neptunes & began producing his current & signature late night sound...soulful electronic sonatas !
mr. daylight encourages all interested parties for indulge in the blackdaylight experience online @: www.myspace.com/blackdaylight  & Link for Mr. Daylight's [somewhat censored] online visual art portfolio @:
http://s161.photobucket.com/albums/t222/blackdaylight/

Influences: Fela Kuti, dead prez, Radiohead, Portishead, Prefuse 73, the Neptunes, Dan the Automator, Horace Silver, Sade, James Brown & the JB's, Bjork, Tricky, Wes Montgomery, Clara Hill, Jamie Lidell

Recent Projects:
2007 executive producer for OSMiC Billie D. - Whatever Billie Wants

2007 Executive producer for OSMiC/Chi-Fi Drunken Monkeee - Drunken Monkeee & blackdaylight present: The Professor Gorilla Dickens album

2007 executive producer, sole performer blackdaylight's first solo album, the mostly instrumental trip hop soul jazz odyssey - lava music

2007 co-producer (with scottfree) of the freedaylight album

2003 OSMiC Co-Founder

The Open Source Media iNNOVATION Consortia is a growing collective of artists based around a believe in the benefits of teamwork, & applying open source principals in the production & distribution of music.

2005 album release Autumn blaze

2004 album release Bang's bigger brother