An offshoot of the Denmark-based
Boom Clap Bachelors massive collective,
Quadron is an avant R&B (with an occasional nudge toward folk-soul) duo of multi-instrumentalist/producer
Robin Braun (aka
Robin Hannibal, also one-half of the duo Owusu & Hannibal) and vocalist
Coco O. In 2009,
Quadron began issuing their collaborations, led by the off-center mid-'60s soul throwback "Slippin," which was used in the film Se Min Kjole. A little later in the year, outside their homeland, BBC DJ
Gilles Peterson was floored enough by the sparse, abstract "Day" to slot the song into the year-end All Winners special of his Worldwide program. Los Angeles' Plug Research label picked up their self-titled album for wide circulation and issued it in March 2010.
Braun and
Coco were subsequently sought out by numerous artists -- including
Leon Ware,
the Internet, and
Tyler, The Creator -- for collaborations. Their cover of
Michael Jackson's "Baby Be Mine" was included on the soundtrack to the 2012 film Think Like a Man. In 2013,
Braun made an album with Mike Milosh as
Rhye, while
Coco was featured on the soundtrack to
Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby. That June, they released their second album,
Avalanche, on
Sylvia Rhone's Epic-associated Vested in Culture label. ~ Andy Kellman