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The Somnambulants The Somnambulants are a Brooklyn-based outfit and the product of Joseph White's ambitions to bring melody and pop-song structure into a truly unique style of electronic music. They are receiving exceptional international reviews for their debut album, Fabrication and Productivity, which was released September of 2000. With two new members, trademark style and energy, and constantly evolving setlist of new songs, this band is always a pleasure to see live. Robotic, dreamy, and danceable electro-pop for people who love music. Fabrication and Productivity, is available through Darla Records online, and Clairecords. For more information about the Somnambulants visit www.clairaudience.com. The Somnambulants are also featured in the upcoming issue of Spektacle Magazine. |
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Electro-land Electro-land (electro-land.com) are Kevin Anthony and Gene Harper With their electronic equipment, analog synths, re-processed loops and unique melodic sense, they pioneer new levels of musical and electronic expression. Their current 12" vinyl EP released by F-111/Warner Bros. features Cheyenne, This World and Buka 24 Jam with sounds chock full of breaks and beats, a touch of drum and bass, and a distinctive vocal style not present in the current genre of electronica via the use of a vocoder. |
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Flowchart O'neal, 27, continues to leave his mark all over the place. As a dj, he's known for spinning a wide range of music from bangin' techno to minimal tech-house to deep house to ambient/experimental. He may be playing live on the main floor as 'Flowtron' or playing weird shit in the chill-out room as 'Flowchart.' He continues to release records and cds under a variety of aliases - mostly 'Flowchart' and 'someone else.' With a discography that can cover a wall, Flowchart accumulated a ton of press (thanks to girlie action) and was one of urb's next 100 in 1998. Flowchart went on to dent the ambient/experimental scene with releases on over a dozen different labels in countries like england, germany, japan, greece, canada, italy, norway, and scotland. Flowchart (which is O'neal and Erin Anderson - Philly's most acclaimed ambient dj mistress) continues to pump out an extraordinary side of corky dorky ambient and experimental electro-pop with a minimal techno edge. Someone else is O'neal's tech-house dancefloor-flavor alias yielding tracks for his own label and Frankie Bones' new label, Hard to Swallow. |
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Aarktica A solo sound identity for Jon DeRosa of NYC bands Flare and The Dead Leaves Rising. Aarktica sounds like distance and vast spaciousness. Life processes, tides, frost, clouds, seasonal changes, the arc of night and day, all the planetary pulses played out in the slow motion of real time. Cycling coolly haunting melodic drones, running like a catalog of celestial memories, spilling out days, years, centuries of time. At times as songlike as a sedated Durutti Column, or as ectoplasmic as Flying Saucer Attack sleepwalking through Windy & Carl's home movies of their trip to Iceland. I've listened to this at least a hundred times, and it's still letting parts of itself rise to the surface, or emerge from the mystery. Ghost songs, old highways empty whispering to itself before the first snow starts to swirl like ashes in the unsettled air, a science fiction soundtrack that turns into a vision of the afterlife, or what the moon sounds like wheeling high in a wide open sky. - George Parsons, Dream Magazine #2. |