Biography
Lo-fi vs country
My Little Cheap Dictaphone sprung from the minefield of talent that is JauneOrange, a collective of Belgian musicians who work together to self-produce albums, organize music festivals and help promote touring bands.
In 2002, My Little Cheap Dictaphone released their first studio album "Music Drama", produced and recorded by Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, The Faint, Cursive, Azure Ray). They were all over magazines, radio and television, with 2 singles garnering frequent radio airplay as well as the appearance on MCM of the popular video "Ukranian girl".
After two years of touring, including shows with Nada Surf, Bonnie Prince Billy, Chokebore and Girls in Hawaii, My Little Cheap Dictaphone's founder Redboy formed Hollywood Porn Stars with Anthony Sinatra (frequent live guest guitarist for MLCD). Hollywood Porn Stars was quickly signed to Naive Records (home of White Stripes, Muse, Carla Bruni) and spent the past year performing nearly one hundred shows all over Europe.
Redboy has spent the last three years writing his new ambitious studio album "Small Town Boy", recorded from January to March 2006 with severals acknowledged producers such as Duke (Venus), Niek Meul (Das Pop), the countryman Phil Corthouts and Anthony Sinatra, and is release mid April 2006 via JauneOrange, Anorak Supersport and Bang! The music of My Little Cheap Dictaphone is a string driven blend of orchestrated pop and yard-sale band instruments, evoking strains of Sparklehorse,The Thrills and Mercury Rev. Frequent comparisons have been made to the likes of PJ Harvey, Bright Eyes and Arcade Fire.
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