Jonathan Bates, or Big Black Delta if you’re addressing him onstage, is no newbie to the electro-pop-music-biz. If that term were to actually exist, you’d see that he has experience, either directly or indirectly, with some pretty major electro-pop-music-biz players of the last 10 years, like M83, Secret Machines and The Killers.
As Big Black Delta, he’s now set to blow up all individual-like, and he’s got the jamz to prove it. One listen to our Jam of the Day, “Money Rain Down,” and see that he’s taken his experiences and turned them directly into influences. Catchy, poppy, and funky as shit, with it’s synthesized saxes, it’s a song that you could either nod your head to, or quite possibly freak the fuck out during, depending on your current level of inebriation.
We’ll be checking him out when he plays The Hopscotch Music Festival in just a few weekends now. We’ll bring our dancing shoes.