Blood Diamonds

Michael Tucker (born August 15, 1990) is an American record producer and songwriter. He began producing music in 2010 under the stage name Blood Diamonds, and is currently working under the name BloodPop®. Tucker became interested in electronic music at age seventeen, while studying at Kansas City Art Institute. He has cited M83's album Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts as an inspiration. At age nineteen, Tucker began to pursue both video game design and music production. He started out sharing instrumental electronic tracks via SoundCloud, and was quickly discovered by Transgressive Records. As Blood Diamonds, Tucker released the singles "Feral Envelope" / "Aries", "Heart", "Dreams", "Grins", "Lasting Love", "Phone Sex" (featuring Grimes), "Barcode", and "Osaka". He also produced music for various artists, and remixed other artists' songs. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.