Pikachunes
New Zealand singer
Pikachunes is the sad pop musical project of Miles McDougall (i.e. Miles G. Loveless), a songwriter, musician and producer based in Melbourne. Trained in jazz, for McDougall "a typical track features one or two synths, a '70s analog bass line, and a series of reverberated vocal harmonies, all driven by an atypical disco beat."
Early life, education
Miles McDougall was born and raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. He grew up listening intently to musicians such as the Pet Shop Boys, Eurythmics, B52′s and Matt Bianco, and as an adult listens to most releases from DFA Records and Kitsuné. He studied classical music in his youth, and after graduating high school, studied at the CPIT, Jazz School; majoring in performance on drum kit.
Founding
McDougall founded Pikachunes as a solo project in 2009, after a skateboarding incident left him with plates and pins in his arm. At the time he was studying Jazz Performance on drums and working towards a Bachelor of Music. While his arm healed McDougall turned to digital composition and production to keep himself occupied. According to McDougall, "The name came to me whilst I was in hospital under heavy amounts of morphine for pain. As cliche as it sounds I woke up with the name in my head and it stuck." In August 2015 McDougall signed with Sydney record label, Monday Records.
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