About

Photo by Christian Lindsey

Marcel Sletten is an electronic music producer, composer, writer, and visual artist based in Athens, Georgia. He is the founder, curator, and art director of Primordial Void, an independent record label, and Cosmic Trattoria, a music blog and mix series. He also fronts Chairs, the PV label's in-house recording project. His other musical projects include baird, LAMB, Miracle House, and Sutro Baths. From 2023 to 2025, Sletten was the keyboardist for Elephant 6 outfit the Rishis.

Photo by Christian Lindsey

As a performer, Sletten has shared bills with artists such as DJ Python, Gobby, Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher, More Eaze, Theodore Cale Schafer & Sydney Spann, Shane Parish, Charmaine Lee, MSHR, Andy Loebs, and Magic Tuber Stringband. In November 2022, he was selected by John Kiran Fernandes (the Olivia Tremor Control, Circulatory System) to perform at the 10th annual Cloud Recordings Festival in Athens, Georgia.

As a curator, he has commissioned and released work by Gerard Love (Teenage Fanclub), Robert Schneider (the Apples in Stereo, Neutral Milk Hotel), Little Wings, Yellow Swans, Jeff Witscher, Twig Harper, Cucina Povera, More Eaze & Wendy Eisenberg (as whait), oxhy, Surface to Air Missive (as Shadows Leap), Christian Alborz Oldham (as Rage Quit), emamouse, Gobby, Susu Laroche, Roxane Métayer, and Magic Tuber Stringband, among others.

As a DJ, Sletten has contributed mixes to online series such as Blowing Up The Workshop and C Minus.

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