Cherrystones

Those in the know speak of Cherrystones alongside our time's finest curators and compilers. Preferring to move in the shadows, you won’t find Cherrystones on every identikit summer festival lineup or playing the big bucks Discogs tease on social media. However, it is why you will find him as one of the most long-standing members of NTS, and it’s also why a host of underground artists make the call to check out his legendary record vault when passing through town. Or maybe you will have caught him at ease for hours behind the decks in the corner of an intimate, dimly lit joint, pulling out killer jam after killer jam... Running parallel to his world renown for collecting, archiving, and sharing the furthest-flung sounds, Goddard’s own productions and soundtracks have long been revered - recently scoring campaigns for Adidas, Stone Island, and YMC. Self-taught as a teenager on a range of instrumentation and DIY production/programming techniques, his work is driven by the original idea of punk as an aesthetic - a creative portal devoid of rules. He has a lifelong obsession with the soundtrack and was also gripped early by a love of rap (a trusted MPC 2000 was never far from his side). The channeling of context, underscore, timing, and placement has always fuelled the distinctive flavor of Cherrystones’ output.