Blitzen Trapper are a sextet based out of Portland, Oregon. In various combinations and guises, the group had already played a long time together before the "crystalization event" in July 2000 on the slopes of the famous volcano, Mt Hood. Since then the B. Trapp. have delighted audiences of all ages and socioeconomic groups, mostly playing close to home and for many years distributing recordings like itinerant madmen, for free.

When you're young, it's hard for your brain go to any less than a million miles an hour. Thankfully, Portland, Oregon's Blitzen Trapper relies on this A.D.D.-like aesthetic of working outside of the box, for they often blur the musical lines between folk, funk, and utter freakiness. On "Sci-Fi Kids," featured on the band's latest studio effort, Wild Mountain Nation, the sextet's refined mix of acoustic sincerity and electronic embellishments get a bit of a techno touch up. U.K.-based DJ Principal Participant brings you the "Kingswood" remix - Spin.com

Blitzen Trapper have self-released three albums since 2003, including their latest, Wild Mountain Nation. The struggle of DIY indie bands can be over-romanticized, but in the case of Blitzen Trapper, the freedom to work at their own pace is most likely what brought them to come up with the cock-eyed stylistic blitzkrieg of Wild Mountain Nation. The steps up to it have been hesitant: The band's first two albums adhered to both earnest country-derived conventions and a modern disregard for the constraints of genre, somehow reconciling these two impulses to cook up perfectly listenable, if somewhat tentative, pop on tracks like "Summer Twin", "Asleep for Days", and "Texaco", to name a few. But aside from a few songs worth cherry-picking, none showed the work of a group destined for the spotlight-- or, for that matter, capable of deciding between being an alt-country revival act or boundary-blurring experimentalists - Pitchfork

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