Los Angeles-Based Fateless Flows Collective
Release Their Second Compilation
Shadowmath
Los Angeles, CA - Following on the heels of their debut CD compilation Volume 1, the Fateless Flows Collective (http://fatelessflows.com) are set to independently release their second compilation entitled Shadowmath on March 1, 2005. The second compilation exhibits a contrasting variety of alternative and experimental electronic music by recording artists who have banded together to form this collective in Los Angeles. Thirteen different artists from the collective are featured on this 18-track CD.
While Volume 1 adopted a pure dance culture sound, the collective's second volume, Shadowmath, is a more sophisticated effort and is designed to exhibit a diverse range from chill-out soundscapes to hardcore dance beats alike.
Shadowmath seeps into reflective moodscapes that fill-in the road between the compilation's raw alternative-sounding cuts. The track selection and structure of Shadowmath dips from an atmospheric setting into a frantic, rhythmic riot, and then back. Shadowmath also features tracks from 5 newer members of the collective including Dream Electric, Zygote, Kathie Talbot, Vic Hennegan and Tripform.
Many members of the collective have released material in the past, are members of other bands, and have colorful and deep histories. Some recent Fateless Flows performance activities by members of the collective include Constant Flux and Dream Electric who played at the opening of MOCA's exhibition “Visual Music" in February '05. Surface 10 Activity, Niture, Constant Flux, and Appogee all performed at the closing of the hugely successful rare Van Gogh exhibit at LACMA in 2003. Zygote was a SXSW '04 performer, and Appogee played at the National Skateboarding Tournament in 2003. Many of the members have released new full-length albums in the past year or so, which are mentioned in the album’s track list below.
Currently, the Fateless Flows Collective consists of the members listed on Shadowmath as well as these additional members: The Trace Element aka Henry Tsao, Cavestar aka Kevin Crosslin, Sequanox aka James Cowgil, Violent Fingers aka Laura Escude and Reed Rothchild aka Jess Stroup.
Artist(s): Fateless Flows Collective
Title: Shadowmath
Track Listing:
1.) Indicia - "Rescue Me (interlude)"
www.indiciamusic.com
Indicia aka Betsy Ullery & David Ward -
Coming from distinctly different musical backgrounds, this vocalist/keyboardist duo integrates the organic and the digital into innovative electronic music that is "Indicia" (cannabis indica style). Developing a strong following in LA, their songs blend original electronic loops and samples with harmonic melody and straight-out dance-floor beats. Indicia has been aired often on LA radio stations and made appearances at major clubs like The Viper Room and The Knitting Factory. They've also released their first CD "Indicia."
2.) Appogee - "Coral"
- >From the album Unconscious Ruckus
www.appogeemusic.com
Appogee aka Jay Skinner -
Pushing the boundaries of sonic exploration, Jay Skinner's spectacular shows feature a wild mix of electronically processed guitars over a shifting aural canvass that will go from glitch IDM across the goth/industrial gamut into ambient drones. His Appogee releases include Down on the Dots, Unconscious Ruckuss on Kanpai/Domo Records, the tech country EP "Brightly Shining, Dimly Lit" and remixes for Bright Eyes, Zykos, and H is Orange.
3.) Kathie Talbot - "Blandula XT"
www.kathietalbot.com
A self described "anthropologist of sound" and a Los Angeles-based composer/vocalist/remixtress, Talbot's music and/or vocals can currently be heard in commercials for Nissan, Budlight and Hewlett Packard.
4.) Dream Electric - "Not The Glow"
(Written/produced by Aaron Raab and Dean De Benedictis)
http://www.freewebs.com/dreamelectric/
Dream Electric aka Aaron Raab
5.) Tripform - "Silver Reflection"
www.tripform.com
Tripform aka Pablo Manzarek -
Pablo Manzarek previously recorded as a member of Microstudio on the Carpet Bomb label, former keyboard player of AI, and many other fascinating side projects including soundtrack performances. Manzarek works out of his home studio in the Los Angeles area.
6.) The Luxury Tax - "Hey You Get Off My Lawn"
- >From the album Eat Garbage
www.budgetcutsmusic.com
The Luxury Tax aka Autobono & Selftext -
This duo's exciting live shows will range anywhere from soothing to startling, in a dense sound collage that covers virtually everything going on currently in electronic music. They have appeared at the Transcinema Festival and the 26 Mix sound lounge in San Francisco, as well as the Knitting Factory and The Echo in Los Angeles.
7.) Zygote - "American Love Conspiracy"
www.undertheradar.net
Zygote aka Stephen Ruiz -
Zygote uses the mechanized process of electronic music production to express complex human emotion. The tools of his output are computers, tape recorders, wires and other conduits of noise. His sound transcends the inhuman element of "technologically enhanced" production methods so vital in the world of electronic music producers, and in its place submits raw and unfiltered emotion. Ruiz has releases on Under the Radar Records and Alectric Records (Canada) and is the founding organizer of The "Under the Radar" experimental music and video events in San Francisco. He now resides in Oklahoma City.
8.) Surface 10 Activity - "Birth-collide"
www.surface10.net -&- www.din.org/uk
Surface 10 Activity aka Dean De Benedictis -
As the founder of this diverse Fateless Flows Collective, Dean De Benedictis has been modeling many of his efforts within the FFC as a response to the separativeness and elitism plaguing electronic music (as it does any artistic movement). "Can't we all just get along?" De Benedictis' music under his original moniker Surface 10 (Hypnotic, DiN, SFM Records) has taken many stylistic twists since its genesis in 1996, and has been featured on radio throughout the globe and talked about throughout the Net. The range of approaches and genres that De Benedictis has drawn influence from to convey broad emotions through technology has not always gone understood.
9.) The Luxury Tax - "Sex Machine"
- >From the album Rave Toilet
10.) Appogee - "KDDR mov.2"
- >From the album Unconscious Ruckus
11.) Constant Flux - "City in the Cold (Remix of EX by Tara King Theory)"
www.fluxgruv.com -&- www.runrecordings.com
Constant Flux aka Doug Rimerman -
Known throughout the LA electronic music scene for his experimental/breakbeat Run Recordings artist Constant Flux performs his compositions alongside the stunning live visual projection of artist Yo Suzuki. Constant Flux has been featured on NPR as well as LA radio stations such as, KCRW, KXLU, Power 106 and KUCI.
12.) Dream Electric - "Super Robo Crunch"
13.) Kathie Talbot - "A Conversation Down"
14.) Mr. Soon - "Arcosanti"
- >From the album Places in Arizona
www.psyrecords.com
Mr. Soon aka Joe Jakob -
An Arizona native, Joe Jakob, has most notably worked in collaboration with Grammy Award winning Native American artists Verdell Primeaux and Johnny Mike. Their CD release for Canyon Records
entitled Sacred Path mixes traditional peyote healing chants with Joe's subtly powerful atmospherics. His Mr. Soon CD Places In Arizona was named as "one of the best releases of 2002" by Wind and Wire, the electronic music magazine that broadly covers the genre.
15.) Niture - "Xylophagous"
www.home.earthlink.net/~ealoyola
Niture aka Eddie Loyola -
Niture is Eddie Loyola, and Eddie's art school background clearly shows through his wide ranging sonic canvasses that merge elements of hip hop, ambient, and digitally generated sounds into Robert Rauschenberg-like collages. His latest CD Ambiguous has just been released on his Mainfindings label for 2004.
16.) Vic Hennegan - "In a Broken Heart"
www.vhennegan.com
Freshly emerging in the LA EM scene, Vic Hennegan has built up a vast variety of ambient soundscapes ever since the late 80's. Hennegan's main focus now is actually in the techno/house realm, and for many years he's been performing his dance music at raves around Southern California.
17.) Subversive Element - "Diagonal"
www.psyrecords.com
Subversive Element aka Jim Goetsch -
Jim Goetsch started off long ago as a saxophone player, studying with jazz legend George Rudsell, touring with blues master Albert King, and opening shows with his jazz group for the likes of Gil Scott-Heron, Tom Scott, and Billy Cobham. Now he has moved into dark dubby electronics with the duo Biomechanique as well his solo project Subversive Element.
18.) Surface 10 Activity - "Only a World"
Vocals by Cathryn Deering
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