Venezuela’s culture is rich when it comes to electronic music, which has come to be significantly known due to the work of fundamental figures in Latin America, such as Miguel Noya, Vytas Brenner, and Ángel Rada. These artists have been experimenting with technological sounds, machines, and noise from the early 70s’. However, many artists have followed over the decades, bringing new life to the warm country’s scene and bringing it to high international standards.
With an electronic sound that is hard to categorize, the duet made up by producers Sergio Muñoz and Israel Sunshine takes us on an endless journey through techno (sometimes melodic, others groovy), house, ambient, and minimalism. A variety of sounds are defined partly by their European influence since they have lived in Barcelona for eight years. You can get to know their work in their EP “Ethereal” (2019): one of those projects is the duo Fur Coat
Sergio Muñoz and Israel Sunshine met in Caracas in 2004, at a moment in which both had separate musical projects. Nevertheless, most of their successful career together has been developed far from their native Venezuela.
Supported initially by Damian Lazarus himself and his label Crosstown Rebels, Fur Coat entered the international music industry by launching projects with various avant-garde labels. Some of them are Last Night On Earth Imprint, from Sasha; the well-known Watergate Records in Berlin; B-Pitch Control, from Ellen Alien; Redimensión from Joseph Capriaty, and MOOD Recordings, of Nicole Moudabers.
The duet has also participated in massive international festivals such as Coachella, Lightning in A Bottle, Balaton Sound, Audioriver, Loveland, and Extrema. They add many shows at clubs such as Fabric London, Watergate Berlin, Warung Beach Club Brazil, Input Barcelona, Marble Bar Detroit, Rex Club Paris, Spy Bar Chicago, Crobar Buenos Aires, Hive Zurch, and Space Miami. This trajectory serves as evidence that their profound and wavelike rhythms conquer the dancefloor around the globe.
You can listen to material from these events in past work of theirs, such as their debut EP “Space Ballad” (2011), or their single “Katarsis” (2016). While listening to these, you might encounter some deep lows and a touch of funk.
Despite their evident success at the dancefloor, Fur Coat trespasses those limits. They are continuously exploring and developing new projects. From 2017, they have been focusing on their label, Oddity Records, defining an authentic aesthetic of their own. They also expect it to a platform for new talent, and they have already published interesting emerging artists. You can check the entire content of Oddity Records here.
Through Oddity Records, Fur Coat has been canalizing their creative restlessness for the time being, without neglecting their own productions and collaborations with renowned artists within the electronic scene.
“In 2019, apart from working and mixing for our label, we also did some important collaborations. For example, a remix for Sasha by LNOE for the track “Singularity,” a remix to Delhia de France, and the track “Ethereal,” which was highly supported by people like Kolsh, Adriatique, Mind Against, among others,” the duet tells South Plug.
In this context, 2020 comes full of novelty and events for Fur Coat. Despite having to reschedule their plans to travel through Europe, America, and Asia due to the world pandemic, they have been focusing this year on the celebration of their 10th anniversary. They opened this season by premiering their EP “Pandora’s Dream,” with Oddity’s support, and they remixed Blancah and Fairmont through Renaissance Records and ATLANT, respectively.
Apart from all this, Fur Coat has recently released the first cut of their next album “Polyphony,” which will be displayed through Renaissance Records in October 2020. The sneak peek is called “Hurricane,” and we can listen to vocals from Running Pine, and a Club Mix, a remix from Tim Green and a Radio Mix.
“ We also have a few remixes prepared by Systematic and Balance, which are being released this year,” they tell us.
To light things up while we await this new material, we share Fur Coat’s most recent work with you. Without a doubt, a fundamental pillar of what Latin America’s flourishing electronic music is all about:
You can also listen to Fur Coat’s DJ set at the incredible sanctuary of Rocacorba, in Canet d’Ari (Girona):
