Lovespirals
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| Background information | |
| Origin | United States |
| Genres | Dream pop, electronica |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Labels | Chillcuts, Projekt Records, Loverush Digital |
| Associated acts | Love Spirals Downwards |
| Website | www |
| Members | Ryan Lum Anji Bee |
| Past members | Doron Orenstein Gabriel D. Vine Sean Bowley |
Lovespirals is an American dream pop and electronica band from Southern California, featuring multi-instrumentalist/producer Ryan Lum and lyricist/vocalist Anji Bee.
The origins of Lovespirals began with a 1998 side project of Lum's Projekt Records band, Love Spirals Downwards. The new outfit found Lum teaming up with Doron Orenstein and Gabriel D. Vine of Subliminal Records duo, Monkey Bars for the instrumental track "Beatitude". Bee joined in as vocalist soon after.
At first, Lovespirals' music picked up where Lum left off with Flux, the final Love Spirals Downwards' studio album, creating drum and bass and downtempo compositions. The first officially released song was a jazzstep remix of Claire Voyant's "Bittersweet," for Time Again: A Collection of Remixes, in April 2000. The remix was attributed to Love Spirals Downwards, though the song was composed by Lum and Bee, with saxophone contributions by Orenstein.
In July 2000, the band launched an Mp3.com page under the name "Lovespirals", which included the first song featuring Bee's vocals, "Ecstatic". They followed it up with a second digital single called "Hand in Hand" in August. These tracks were pressed to acetate for Lum's use in DJ sets during promotions for the Love Spirals Downwards career retrospective CD, Temporal: A Collection of Music Past & Present, released earlier that year. In 2001, these songs were released via an Mp3.com enhanced CDR called the Ecstatic EP, along with a new track called "Spanning Time" and their Claire Voyant remix. StarVox Magazine listed the Ecstatic EP and Time Again in their Top 10 Staff Favorites of 2001, citing Lovespirals and Claire Voyant's "triphop-influenced grooves" as "Goth's Next Big Thing." Mp3.com featured the EP in their "Hot Artist Spotlight" on January 25, 2002, stating:
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