Chicago’s Finest Inimitable Duo Bootleg Contraband is the Talk of Town With Their Just Released Debut Album, “I/O”

Cason Trager and Lou Sceelo met by chance at Guitar Center in Chicago in the spring of 2019 and created an enduring music connection. The couple lived and breathed their newly formed musical cooperation in the fall of that year, and their friendship culminated in what is now the band “Bootleg Contraband.” This duo’s style extends from different explosive house soundscapes to powerful doses of techno, Latin, minimal, and a slew of other EDM influences.

The duo’s sound features that eclectic blend distorted to perfection and fuses electronic sonic spheres for genre-defying results. Together they make more than just songs, they are engineering a new sonic world to be dived into something otherworldly. They are really beyond compare and take inspiration from any and every artist who is true to themselves, regardless of their work’s popularity or commercial success. They pride themselves on their strong artistic visions; unrelenting and always bona fide!

Their debut album, “I/O’ is as a result of hard work, determination, relentlessness and careful persistency. This 9-piece collection boasts of each and every member’s contribution with inspiration basically coming from life’s general perspective and each of the duo’s creative outputs. Bouncing off of one another, this masterpiece is a tribute to such inventive and ingenious artistic capability that every member brings to the table.

There is that kind of intriguing minimalist arrangement in techno incandescence in the track, “Need A Beat” with the robotic techno grooves adding spark and fascination to the tune. The vocal drops with the repeated catchy phrases of, “I need a beat” that float over the electronically-infused melodicism adds that sonic depth, warmth and color to an already entrancing track.

“Tribalism” is cinematographic with the filmography-tinted melodies making a grand entrance from the captivating drums that are soon followed by the deep-phased elements that are then followed by that quintessential introductory melody. All through this track operates on a give and take between these two euphonies with occasional moments of unison in between to detail what is a film-like stunner in melody. This track has a traditional vibe to it with the distant vocal commentaries in the background echoing some very native communities’ tales!

“Ohne Titel” is German-inspired and translates to “Untitled”- it brings a very nostalgic vibe to it that gives an ode to the golden era in German film and television as the melodies draw you in and place you in a fantasy universe between the 70s and the 80s. The track continuously gains pace and adopts very expressive elements along the way to keep a listener guessing and heavily invested. This is certainly an electro masterpiece in techno house transcendence!

“Take Me Higher” is a tuneful house masterpiece that exudes some striking party vibes- the arrangement here is top-notch; blending the claps, snares, and heavy bass rhythms that really mingle and punch with vivacity and freedom to take you within the realms of the dance floor where you move with reckless abandon to the shimmery groove. The pleasure-inducing house percussion underscores the hypnotic feelings this track exudes!

“Window Pane” is ethereally gratifying and very nostalgic with some of the most compelling melodies that are ear-grabbing and refuse to leave the mind even after the track is long gone. There is so much to sink your teeth into even from the other tracks, “Dancefloor Amnesia”, “Children At Play”, “Radio Chilo’ and “You.”

I cannot stress enough how, “I/O” is the epitome of accomplished artistry and I harbor no doubt that this collection will be in heavy rotation everywhere and will be a huge testament to the innovation Bootleg Contraband is bringing to the music industry!

To listen to this masterpiece in its entirety; follow the attached link and find out your favorite jams from this powerful collection that will undeniably quench your thirst for that creative house and electronic melodic output craving!

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