unseelie lightfoot | pl

Unseelie (pronounced un-see-lee) is an electronic/idm/post-pop project by Shawn Shackelford, who also worked as part of Pear Eyes, Digita'lis/Phlox as well as other solo project RENEGADE ANDROID. He also ran the now retired international net-label GOZOMBIE Records. .

Lightfoot was born in 1987 in a small town within Arkansas. At the mere age of six months he was adopted and moved out to Boston, Massachusetts. He lived in the very diverse neighborhood of Jamaica Plains. There, he was exposed to an array of musical cultures. From old school feel good hip-hop, to bass thumping reggaeton, and to the soothing sounds of jazz. Lightfoot began producing as a junior in high school after being exposed to the hip-hop sounds of Atmosphere, MF Doom and Black Moon. After completing high school he went to UMASS Amherst. At UMASS he realized...