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LATE ASTER, CITY LIVIN’ (SLOW AND STEADY RECORDS)

Leave it to the band nerds to transform simplicity into thoughtfulness.

Just one listen to “Ctrl-F Discipline” by the San Francisco experimental electronic duo Late Aster—composed of Anni Hochhalter and Aaron Messing—and you’ll be hooked. The song name is a hat-tip to the magical qualities of the DIY-friendly recording device from the late ‘90s, the TASCAM Portastudio 414 MKII. It delivers lo-fi r

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