Tyler Pursel is a musician with one foot in the world of Top 10 hits and the other in wildly adventurous ambient and experimental music. He’s been the touring keyboardist for the rap-rock band Gym Class Heroes for nearly two decades, and in recent years he’s released a series of exquisite ambient albums as a solo artist and as one half of the duo Earthroom.

Tyler’s new solo LP, In The Pasture of Obsolete Suns, drops July 24 on Mystery Circles.

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But how did a lifelong introvert get so good at collaborating?

Why did he sell all the musical gear he had—only to start over from scratch?

And what’s the secret to finally sounding like yourself as a musician?

I talked to Tyler to find out.

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EPISODE NOTES

Tyler on Bandcamp

Tyler on Instagram

⁠Earthroom on Bandcamp⁠

Mystery Circles on Bandcamp

Modartt Organteq & Pianoteq

Madrona Labs softsynths

Tyler's microlabel Lost Pairadice Records

Tracks played (in order):

• "Encode" - Tyler Pursel
• "Pipe Geometry: I" - Tyler Pursel
• "Chartreuse" - Earthrooms
• "Chimayo" - Tyler Pursel
• "Broken Jar" - Memorygardens/Lost Pairadice Records
• "Stairs" - Hillary Wallace & The Death/Lost Pairadice Records
• "Within Luminous Temples" - Earthroom
• "Five Pyramids" - Tyler Pursel
• "A Walled Garden Never Grows: IV" - Tyler Pursel
• "Laandgrave" - Tyler Pursel
• "Resinframe" - Tyler Pursel
• "Encode" - Tyler Pursel
• "Buselik" - Tyler Pursel

Special thanks to Navin Kala for the Slow Fade cover art. Check out our magical conversation in Slow Fade ep. 1.