Crescendo are a Liverpool

Liverpool

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 based Electronic Pop band. The band are made up of duo Dan Akerman (keyboard

Electronic keyboard

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, synthesiser and guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

s) and Jonson Walker

Jonson Walker

Jonson Walker is an English DJ and musician, based in Liverpool. Walker held a residency at Liverpool's now defunct electro night, Catfight. In the summer of 2007, he won BBC Radio 6's Music’s Virtual Tour competition, and DJ’d at the Indian Summer festival in Glasgow...

, (guitars, keyboards and vocals). The band have enjoyed live success and have received radio play.

History

Crescendo formed in 2003 as a trip-hop band before evolving into an electronic outfit after the band disintegrated leaving duo Dan Akerman and Jonson Walker, with a pre-paid rehearsal room filled with instruments and time to experiment with sounds.

Influences and Styles

The band have varying styles on different songs which range from synth-pop, through psychedelia to slacker rock. They have cited The Postal Service

The Postal Service

The Postal Service is an American electronic indie pop band composed of vocalist Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie and producer Jimmy Tamborello of Dntel and Headset.-Background:...

, The Beta Band

The Beta Band

The Beta Band were a British musical group who received much critical acclaim and achieved cult status amongst avid followers of the underground and experimental music scene...

, The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips are an American alternative rock band, formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983.Melodically, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as "What...

, The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers

The Chemical Brothers are a British electronic music duo comprising Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. Originating in Manchester in 1991, along with The Prodigy, Fatboy Slim, The Crystal Method, and fellow acts, they were pioneers at bringing the big beat genre to the forefront of pop culture.- Background...

, Pavement

Pavement (band)

Pavement is an American alternative rock band that formed in Stockton, California in 1989. In their career, they achieved a significant cult following, and they were called the best band of the 1990s by prominent music critics Robert Christgau and Stephen Thomas Erlewine...

 and The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses are an English alternative rock band formed in Manchester in 1983. They were one of the pioneering groups of the Madchester movement that was active during the late 1980s and early 1990s...

 as major influences.
The band use Drum Machine

Drum machine

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s and Samplers

Sampler (musical instrument)

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 for the crux of the rhythm section augmenting this with live bass played by themselves on the recordings and Stephen Blackwell at the live shows.

Releases

Crescendo self released released their first 3 EP

Extended play

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's (New Robot Explorers, Rise of The Robots and The Evil Has Landed) through their own Black Lodge

Black Lodge

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Productions.

The band released the Don't Let Them Tell You What To Do EP on February 16, 2009 through 'I Blame The Parents' Records,