Maharadja Sweets
is a lifelong home recording enthusiast, recording his first album at the age of 10 in 1981.
As a teenager on Long Island in the mid-to-late eighties, he
submitted early albums to WFMU's seminal Lo-Fi radio show, where his music was played a number of times.
In the
ensuing decades he sweated out his artistic muse mostly in isolation, recording trunk loads of material.
Sweets was discovered in 2011 performing at a
Brooklyn coffee shop open mic night by Seth of Orange Milk Records - which Rolling Stone has called "the
world's most vital cassette label."
In 2012, Orange Milk released Sweets' seminal "Engines of Joy" album to critical
acclaim, Impose Magazine calling it "a tape of mysterious honesty; purely experimental, forward thinking, disturbing
and beautiful, showcasing a raw, personal and mystical vision."
Sweets followed it up with the epic space opera "In An Orange Milky Way," which Lars
Gotrich of NPR named one of the best 25 cassette albums of 2012.
Since then, he has released numerous highly creative and adventurous albums in a variety
of genres.
His work has
been featured in an exhibit at New York Public Library and been lauded by such publications as Wire, Tiny Mix Tapes, and National
Geographic Indonesia.
