Miloco Sounds SONGS IN A BOTTLE

Harvey Coates & James Richardson are young electronic music producers, and between them cover a vast range of music styles: from lofi hip-hop to tropical house, from folk music to alternative rock, their experience and expertise can be heard in all of their productions. Having met while studying Creative Music Technology at the University of Surrey, they became close friends through being a part of the band Shtëpi, and eventually decided to live together during their final year of studies. During this time, they curated this extensive sample pack - with each sample reflecting their own individuality and musicianship; there really is no other pack quite like this one.

Harvey is a guitarist and music producer from Bristol, who spent most of his early music education creating summer-ready house music, and although he still makes music in this style, his latest works contain the influences of the musicians and new styles of music that he was introduced to at university, which can be heard on his 2020 EP ‘Beachside Bops’. One year later, Harvey wrote, produced and arranged an album of folk guitar music for his dissertation, and through this he had become adept with folk stringed instruments, and as such we hear this prominently throughout the sample pack. James is a keys player and music producer from Oxfordshire, who, like Harvey spent his early years of music making doing something very different to what he does now. He became a lofi hip-hop producer, and under the alias of ‘Lasoa’ accumulated more than 150,000 streams. Whilst at university, James became the lead producer of the aforementioned band Shtëpi, eventually drafting in Harvey to play guitar for live concerts. James has just released an ambient electronic EP entitled ‘Between Focus’, and his production techniques were utilised heavily in the curation of Songs in a Bottle