Project e.l.f., named after the cold war government project of the same name, is the latest work by Roach and Brain who have been making electronic music together for over 10 years. They both hail from the midwest and met while living in Chicago in the early 90's. Having both transplanted to San Francisco they've been involved in many electronic projects including Bluescreen, AB-, COLDR and the improv experimental recordings known as "evil".
Their first album as Project e.l.f., is a soundscape of IDM beats and rich down tempo ambience. Songs range from the glitchy, driving, near Industrial "Disappearing Bridges" to the eerie, dream-like "Insectasoid". Distorted drums and a decidedly Twin Peaks-like synth line describes "8088" and "8-bit drive by" is a quirky tune constructed purely of
8-bit video game samples.