Papercutz

PAPERCUTZ (stylized as :papercutz or :PAPERCUTZ) is a Portuguese electronic music act formed as a side project in Porto, from Portugal, 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, an American singer with Portuguese ascendancy born in New York and Portuguese Marisa Pinto, Marcela Freitas as well as instrumentalists Bruno Ribeiro, Nuno Sarafa and Francisco Bernardo, among others.

Annie Nightingale 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 independent record label Apegenine recordings whose artist roster featured artists such as Montreal's own David Kristian or Khonnor and the single Ultravioleta rmx's included remixes by Riz Maslen (aka Neotropic) and the first ever release by now known The Sight Below just before his signing to Ghostly International. 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 Record Collector comparing Bruno's precision work to that of Four Tet. 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 Lylac's textures with Drowned in Sound calling the album 'notably coherent and engaging' unlike other remix records featuring relevant ambient music artists like Taylor Deupree, Keith Kenniff, ex-member of UK 'shoegaze' icons Slowdive and Lowgold 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 South by Southwest where it was noted the band had been working with producer Chris Coady in New York City. 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. After praises from media such as The Fader defining the album "Beautiful and unsettling music." and XLR8R as "exciting dream pop with layers of pulsating synths" The Blur Between Us mastered by Grammy winner Joe LaPorta was re-released as a special edition in Japan through Tokyo’s Kilk records with major support from Tower Records Japan featuring remixes from electronic music producers such as Sara Abdel-Hamid aka Ikonika or Kyson. thumb|Producer/Composer Bruno Miguel from Porto