Justin Depth was born shortly after producer and multi-instrumentalist Justin Myers (working under the moniker DJ 333) made a mixtape for an exhibition at Tempus Projects that called for a cassette playlist that could be played on boomboxes throughout the Seminole Heights art gallery.
“I originally made a chopped and screwed '90s R&B playlist,” Myers, 27, told CL, “then I went ahead and sampled small pieces from every song to make my own mixtape of original content.”
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As time went on, Diamond Man and Alien House (bands Myers had with friends Josh Fowler, Ryne Heslin and Anthony Tarallo) started to take breaks, which meant that Myers would work on random bits that he had lying around. Fans of New York groups like experimental outfit Black Dice or the post-pop free-thinking Animal Collective can probably put any hope of new Diamond Man material on the back burner, but Alien House and Justin Depth (which have close to a dozen mixtapes, albums or EPs between them) are both working on new material as you read this. Listen to more at justindepth.bandcamp.com.
