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Free Download: Tycho's Effervescent Electro-Pop 'Dive'

Get a track from the producer's new album here

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November 17, 2011 9:00 AM ET
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Click to listen to Tycho's 'Dive'

San Francisco-based producer Scott Hansen, better known as Tycho, recently released a full-length album called Dive. The upbeat electro-pop title track was produced with optimism in mind. "A lot of this album is about lamenting something that's gone or putting things to rest," Hansen explains, "but I think this song in particular is more about emerging from the past and moving on. I definitely see it as the high-water mark on the album, a kind of emotional crescendo."

Tycho's Dive is available now, and you can download the title track for free here.

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