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Oct 25, 02
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UFO!: Phunckateck: The Drink: TONIGHT
It's official, the Blade Runner cometh and he's got his laptop too.
Wednesday, November 27th, 2002. Vancouver. The Drink. Seks Wednesdays/Pound Recordings (with a little bit of help from the Konspiracy) brings you. UFO! (Phunckateck/Groundscore/Phracktal)New York City/SF with Kuma w/ Amalia Townsend (The Konspiracy Group) Mechwarrior (Intellect) Giveaway support from Circa shoes and Phunckateck Communications in effect. Watch the media, watch the skies. watch the ride! Widely regarded as one of the US's pioneering drum and bass artists and DJs, UFO! continues to edge forward, staking a position on the outward perimeter of the music. Inertia and momentum are things he's had little use for in the past, and 2002 has seen him sharply accelerate his progression away from the center of drum and bass. Drawing on iconic pictures like Blade Runner, UFO!'s oft-stated vision of the future is unsettling, stark, and convoluted. In his eyes-and his music-it's a place where the tendrils of data and digital logic reach deep into the fissures of decaying concrete and collapsed steel; an imagined place and time that is the true forge of his brand of mechanistic funk. A San Francisco native, UFO!-born Ed Garro-was musically baptized by hip hop. Quickly aspiring to the status of battle DJ, he proceeded to learn the skills and exercise them every chance he had. An intensely visual person, Ed's love for the visual component of art had him drawing at an early age, a skill that morphed into graffiti. Later on, rather than repress his graphic work, he found the world of music a perfect place to utilize it. His hand drawn record labels, sleeves and posters are coveted by collectors. He's designed limited edition prints for the clothing label LB-426 in San Francisco and true to the futurist B-Boy ethos, you might see his improvised riffs sketched over bills and bus-side ads in New York and San Francisco. Between his youthful days in hip hop and the present, Ed found himself enthralled with the new urban sound of London: hardcore...jungle...drum and bass. In it he saw a portal into the future, wider than any before. He stepped through. Soon after he formed the Phunckateck collective, and since has released over two dozen singles on labels such as Thermal, Position Chrome, Phylum, Vortex, Commercial Suicide, Green and Phunckateck Communications. He also released his first album The Future is Listening on Thermal in 2001, one of the first full-length albums by any US drum and bass artist. His forthcoming album Defrag Life..... on Phunckateck Communications provides far-reaching evidence of how much he's developed as an artist, including a surprise track that finds him venturing into the role of vocalist for the first time. The album traces an arc that incorporates a myriad of other forms and genres, each deconstructed and refabricated in the forge of his imagination. It's an intense, sometimes jarring excursion through a dystopian landscape; urban but not urbane. It's also an intensely honest and personal collection of music. Every note and wash of color bears the imprint of an artist trying to communicate something bigger than himself Recently relocated, Ed's move to the less forgiving environment of New York was a personal challenge to himself, mirroring the uncompromising demands he makes of his music. He's busier than ever, traveling often. True to form, his DJing-and his idea of it-has evolved. Seldom appearing without a laptop now, he incorporates live digital processes into his sets, seamlessly switching from vinyl to live pieces. Even if his sets appear unsettling or unpredictable, his facility for creating larger contexts out of the music makes it work. To Ed, the computer is a whole instrument, not merely a sequencer or emulator of existing sounds. Not content to exploit it as a mere tool, Ed's music embodies the very notion of the human-computer interface, tapping into the essence of the machine which in turn is driven to reflect the vision of the man. The consummate urban artist, UFO!'s world is one where music, painting, graffiti and DJing are not easily separated. Championing an idiosyncratic form of urban futurism, his work in all forms is defiantly rooted in the industrial shadows of San Francisco bridges and New York high-rises, honed by the warrens of London's tube and the mechanistic biology of Los Angeles' concrete arteries and veins, while envisioning places where the grid of city blocks gives way to the grid of nanotechnology...a rupture that UFO!'s art rides with committed abandon, joyriding through the crumbling detritus of an industrialized society colonized by data and information...a place where the man is no longer easily distinct from the machine. Last edited by Kuma; Nov 27, 02 at 10:16 AM. 
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Oct 25, 02
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i am not going because i am only 18
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Oct 31, 02
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*bumpitty...bump*
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