JAMES FERRARO is arguably the most talked-about (certainly the most theorised) underground artist of the past two years, confounding and delighting in equal measure with a litany of cassette, CD-R and vinyl releases under a bewildering number of aliases.
His cracked psychedelia credentials extend back to 2004 when he formed the Skaters with fellow fruitcake Spencer Clark, but it’s his gonzo solo music that’s brought him the widest acclaim: and what a diverse body of work it is, taking in the sun-spoiled, shop-soiled blues drift of 'Last American Hero', the eddying New Age ambient of 'Marble Surf', the cathode-ray paranoia of 'Citrac', the no-fi minimal wave of 'Chameleon Ballet', the AM rock perversion of 'Night Dolls With Hairspray', the VHS warp of 'Live At Slimer Beach' and 'Rapture Adrenaline'.
Through a slyly humorous lens of Deleuzian theory and chaos magick, he focusses on the most vulgar and garish aspects of our recent cultural history: a hyperreality of advertising, self-help, porno, home fitness, speed-dieting, evangelism and fear-mongering. Last year, Ferraro released his most anticipated album to date, 'Far Side Virtual' on Hippos In Tanks. 'Far Side Virtual', on the face of it at least, attends to the fetishes of the late capitalism today: an iPad adorns its cover, and its track titles reference Google, Pixar, Starbucks, etc.
It’s a radical departure from his previous work – there’s no distortion, no tape-hiss, no obvious underground signifiers. But long-time fans of his work needn’t despair, for this new cleanness and clarity to the Ferraro aesthetic hasn’t diminished the hallucinatory power of his music, and in fact may well have enhanced the power of the man with the moon-lit pompadour.
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PALMISTRY is a Southeast London producer, working in moody R&B concrete. He's a triad protector pushing his warped atmospherics from the post-dubstep afterparty into a whole other dark realm. Check out Palmistry's soundcloud below to hear the seriously mesmeric 'Black Creps' to give you a better idea.
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FELIX LEE is an 19-year-old London born composer and aromatherapy artist working with holistic music to showcase his net-based research and motivational 'new life' decisions. For this performance Felix has promised a mixed bag of various music and sound, drawing on the theatrical and the simple.
http://soundcloud.com/felixlee
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