Today, Pioneer 11, the brainchild of Bryan Gomez and Alex Hastings, shared their latest single, "Hero of Modernity," with Darkside's Dave Harrington. The song comes from their forthcoming album Humanoid, which drops Nov. 11 via POW Recordings
The song serves the latest offering from the group – who are named after NASA’s 1973 robotic space probe – which transmits sonic hybrids of electronica, dance, and psych-rock to connect the people here on earth. The track was written, recorded and produced by Gomez, Hastings, their bandmate Joey Kehoe and Harrington. Harrington specifically contributed electronics and guitar, he also mixed the track along with Thomas Cullision.
Of the experience, Pioneer 11 shared, "At the end of last year, we invited Dave over to our home studio. Although we had met before, we hadn’t played music together up until this uncharacteristically rainy December day. Not one to miss a jam, Dave Harrington braved the soaked streets driving from East LA to West LA.
"Dave arrived with his guitar and magic suitcase of pedals. Weaving through a variety of grooves and morphing genres, towards the end of the 2nd hour, we had found ourselves in a flow state. It was at this moment that the sun broke through the clouds and filled the studio with golden light," they continued. "Coming out of this telepathic trance, we realized we stumbled across the pieces for a new song that would come to be called 'Hero Of Modernity.' Over the next few months, the collaboration continued as Dave helped co-produce the song with us."
Listen to Pioneer 11 and Dave Harrington's "Hero of Modernity" below.
