:PAPERCUTZ (stylized as :papercutz or :PAPERCUTZ) is a Portuguese

electronic music Electronic music is a Music genre, genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or electronics, circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromech ...

act formed as a side project in

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that became a fully active band in 2008. Bruno Miguel is the only official member of Papercutz and solely responsible for its musical direction. After recordings, Bruno assembles a live band to perform with him which may include musicians used on studio recordings. Past musicians have included vocalists Melissa Veras, a US singer with Portuguese ascendancy born in

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and Portuguese Marisa Pinto, Marcela Freitas as well as instrumentalists Bruno Ribeiro, Tiago Morgado and Francisco Bernardo, among others.

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described them as 'interesting and making an original sound' as one of the juries on the UK The People's Music Awards in 2009 where the group performed live and won the off the beaten track category. The same year the debut album ''Lylac'' was released on Canadian

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Apegenine recordings whose artist roster featured artists such as Montreal's own

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and the single Ultravioleta rmx's included remixes by

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(aka Neotropic) and the first ever release by now known

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just before his signing to

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. The album was well received by the press and music community and featured in such publications as Textura, Cuemix-magazine, Tokafi, Cylic Defrost, Subba-cultcha Organ Mag with

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comparing Bruno's precision work to that of

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The group toured in 2009 and 2010 promoting their debut album throughout Europe and U.S. with showcases on festivals such as SXSW and Exit Festival and signed to UK Audiobulb Records a new remix album Do outro lado do espelho (Lylac ambient reworks) spawned out of ''Lylacs textures with

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calling the album 'notably coherent and engaging' unlike other remix records featuring relevant

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artists like

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, ex-member of UK 'shoegaze' icons

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and

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drummer Simon Scott among many others that Bruno personally invited to work on his music. By end of 2011 news, came out that the band was working on a new still untitled album. Their new songs made an early debut at the 2012 edition of

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where it was noted the band had been working with producer

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. and were showcasing their new single "Rivers" which presented the band in a beat-heavy, darkened version of their left field dream pop. The album ''The Blur Between Us'' was released on 10 July 2012 and sees the band growing music wise with a push toward more eclectic sounds and personally with Miguel writing and dealing lyrically with feelings of loss for the first time in his adult years. Early 2013, Miguel was selected as a participant

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with colleagues

Evian Christ Joshua Leary (born 11 June 1989), better known by the stage name Evian Christ, is an English electronic music producer, DJ, songwriter and performance artist from Ellesmere Port, UK. He is signed to Tri Angle Records, Warp and Kanye West’s pu ...

, Objekt,

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, Suzanne Kraft, Throwing Snow (from

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, Octa Octa, among others, which brought him back to

where the band played new shows and took a couple of months of to record new material for an upcoming EP with big expectation from the likes of

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Iggy. By that time Miguel is a requested producer with guest remixes for

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of M83,

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, Lucretia Dalt,

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's Heart Shaped project, Castratii with vocalist Liela Moss of

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, among others. PAPERCUTZ Live 2020

The band had an hiatus so Bruno could pursue other musical endeavours such as movie scoring and news of a comeback appeared by fall of 2016. In October 2016 they were confirmed to play at the 31st edition of

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, Netherlands. In 2017 the band released a new well received EP ''Trust/Surrender'' and started touring playing shows and festivals through 2018 to 2019 with dates in the U.S. Europe, Iceland and Japan in early 2020 debuting the release of their new full-length album ''King Ruiner'' in March 2020 which was produced in

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with recordings from guest singers Catarina Miranda, Ferri and Lia Bilinsk in

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and Japan. Due to the

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the band focused on shows in their home country and returned to touring throughout Europe and Asia in 2022 announcing a new album for 2023 recorded in

and

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Selected discography

* ''Ultravioleta rmx's'' (2008) Apegenine recordings * ''Lylac'' (2008) Apegenine recordings * ''Do outro lado do espelho'' (Lylac ambient reworks) (2010) Audiobulb Records * ''The Blur Between Us'' (2012)

Peermusic Peermusic is a United States-based independent music publisher. History Ralph Peer, a field recording engineer and A&R representative for Victor Records, went on a scouting trip to Bristol, Tennessee. For two weeks, he recorded artists such as ...

/ Rastilho Records * ''The Blur Between Us'' (Extended Japanese Edition) (2013)

Kilk Records Kilk Records is a Tokyo independent record label. Established by Daichi Mori in 2010 it publishes Japanese and Western artists in Japan. Artists Artists signed to Kilk include; * Manuok * Yagya * Chris Olley * Papercutz * Ekko, Frithjof Toksvig f ...

* ''Trust/Surrender'' (2016)

* ''King Ruiner'' (2020)

* ''King Ruiner'' (Extended Japanese Edition) (2020) MOORWORKS Avex_Trax * ''King Ruiner'' (Deluxe) (2021) Rastilho Records

Videos

Rivers
MTV Iggy (2013)
Where Beasts Die
IMVDb (2013)
Lylac (Helios remix)
MTV (2010)

Awards

, - , rowspan="2", 2009 , , :papercutz , , TPMA "Off the beaten track" category , , , - , :papercutz , , Vodafone/Myspace Portugal The Ones to Watch , , , - , , 2010 , , "A secret search" , , International Songwriting Competition (Dance/Electronica) , , , -

References

External links

:PAPERCUTZ site
(official site) {{Authority control Portuguese electronic music groups Musical groups from Porto