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// Dreamboat
Fun jams are on the stereo at some party, but you don’t know who it is. You’re dancing though. Maybe you’ll go ask. But then you don’t really know the host. He’s cute though so it’d be a good way to talk to him. But you’re seeing someone, and even though your relationship has run its course you really shouldn’t start chatting up other boys yet. But you just honestly want to know who the queer is that has you dancing, so what’s the big deal? “It’s dreamboat.”
Most of it began as a joke. Aaron Bergunder started playing with electronic music years ago under the moniker KaraokeMF to make silly remixes of his more focused rock band, Colourbook. As time went on, KaraokeMF grew into a songwriting outlet for Bergunder, despite the material being shallow and vapid and mostly about sweat and bodily fluids.
Gradually the project evolved and grew into a new name, more polished sound and concise aesthetic. Dreamboat began playing live shows: karaoke-esque performances to mixed down instrumentals on his iPod where he would treat the crowd to his different brand of sweaty and strange performances. Nothing fancy. Word spread more while Bergunder toured across Canada with Colourbook. Friends became fans, fans friends, strangers lovers. He released the Fun Fools EP in 2009, whetting appetites with promise of an LP on the horizon. Colourbook saw its slow demise and Aaron dedicated himself to the Dreamboat project even further.
Latching on to friend and electronic wizard Chris Long (Longshanks, Monolithium), the two nitpicked for another year and a half before releasing Buddies in December 2010 to immediate praise. "Makings of a classic" as described by Mike Devlin of the Times Colonist. Aaron sits humbled.