OTTO SHARES DEBUT EP WORLD GREETINGS Massachusetts-based producer OTTO shares his debut EP World Greetings via PLZ Make It Ruins. Described as, “a deep fried cheese ball with a fully ignited cheese sauce” by the producer, World Greetings is a mindboggling and completely novel mix of bedroom pop and 90’s IDM songs. Built on OTTO’s handmade instruments and synthesizers, that the producer sees as works of art as much as the songs, World Greetings features previously released single “About You Now” and contains 6 tracks of heady, off the wall fun. To celebrate the release of this new EP, OTTO and PLZ Make It Ruins are releasing a special edition collection of limited merch featuring a kaleidoscopic array of T-shirts and a World Greetings stress toy. The merch collection, featuring OTTO T-shirts as well as the World Greetings stress toy, and limited edition World Greetings cassettes are available now at www.PLZ.world.
programmed rhythms, glitchy breakbeats and custom built synthesizer art pieces was hard to ignore. Vegyn had this to say about signing OTTO: “OTTO was initially shown to me by my friend Sydney, who now works with me at PLZ. I was dumbfounded when I first heard his cover of “About You Now” on Soundcloud. At first, I didn’t recognize the song but once the chorus hit it all came flooding back. We reached out not long after and everything else he sent over was just as impressive as the last.”
OTTO’s music, playful and deceptively sinister, mirrors the artist’s fascination with cartoon characters and kids’ TV shows from his childhood. It evokes not only the feelings of joy they provide, but also the existential and materialistic dangers these corporate mascots represent. OTTO’s buoyant, analog melodies represent the fun, technicolor appeal of such characters. OTTO, an electronics student, analogue synth designer and musician, caught Yet his dense, chaotic drum programthe attention of PLZ Make It Ruins label head ming, and jarring rhythmic and textural shifts, evoke the feelings of dread Vegyn with early musical sketches posted to OTTO feels towards electronic waste. Soundcloud. OTTO’s musical world, a multiverse containing highly tuned voices meant to “I find it funny and also very troubling,” OTTO says, “that 15-20 years represent “corporate sprites”, immaculately 70 Rock and Blues International • September 2020
after all of this kids’ media, there are still bits and pieces of these obsolete franchises drifting around in the form of cheap plastic shit, now in landfills and contributing to lakes of toxic leachate.” Hear World Greetings and buy the limited edition OTTO and PLZ Make It Ruins merch above, and stay tuned for more from OTTO soon.
