Biography
Howard W. Hamilton III, USA. Busy Signals is the recording moniker employed by Hamilton a former art school student and Babes In Toyland roadie. His own recordings, however, reject the indie rock of his ex-employers in favour of contemporary bubblegum and thrift store beats, creating lovely pop about and/or informed by lovely pop. He funded his first release via the sale of his classic 1963 Ford Falcon that raised enough money to buy a sampler and eight-track. The St. Paul, Minnesota-based project’s joyous music splices 60s pop, easy listening, dub, hip-hop beats, loops and tapes (including samples appropriated from outtake collections from San Franciscan beat groups and cabaret singers) to produce a jaunty music that echoes Beck, Luscious Jackson and Mercury Rev. The Busy Signals’ first release, 2000’s Baby's First Beats, was notably dubbed ‘Bacharach with beats’. Typically, ‘Headphoneworld’, the opening track, was elegiac to the...
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