About

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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 music label, and Cosmic Trattoria, a music blog and mix series. He fronts Chairs, a recording project and multimedia art collective that also features Reed Winckler, Jackson McLendon, and Oliver Domingo. Sletten is also the keyboardist for Elephant 6 outfit the Rishis, a recording project led by songwriters Ranjan Avasthi and Sofie Lute, and featuring members of Neutral Milk Hotel, the Olivia Tremor Control, and Elf Power.

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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, Kee Avil, RM Francis, Cabo Boing, 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.