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Mathemagic

MATHEMAGIC at the Gladstone (1214 Queen West), Friday (June 18), 8 pm. $15 or NXNE wristband/pass. nxne.com.


In the last year, Guelph’s Mathemagic have gone from an unknown bedroom recording project by brothers Evan and Dylan Euteneier to a group with a debut self-titled EP released on Paper Bag who are getting written about on hip music blogs and being tagged as Canada’s answer to the chillwave fad.

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Funnily, it was only recently that they learned of blogs and chillwave.

“We made a MySpace page for the first song we did, and some guy from Transparentblog in the UK asked us if he could post it,” says Evan. “We didn’t even have a single friend on MySpace. I don’t know how he found us.

“Hell, I didn’t even know what a music blog was. I went to his site and was blown away by all this music I’d never heard before. Now that’s where I get all my new music.”

While the instant blog love may have been a flukey accident, the brothers’ shimmering ambient pop soundscapes fit perfectly with the sudden surge of bands exploring similarly tripped-out tangents.

But whereas most of their competition use 80s pop as reference points, Mathemagic have a subtle tropical vibe that makes you think they live closer to the equator than north of the 49th parallel.

“We recorded the EP just as the summer was ending and it was starting to get cold,” says Evan. “I guess we were trying to make it feel like it was still summer.”

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