mike venezia - electronics, guitar, bass.
with contributors:
charles labarbara - bass guitar; justin d'agostino, rj valeo, rocky stravoscufis and anthony falcone - additional electronics.
Influences
alan wilder, the artificial intelligence releases, autechre, basic channel, brian eno, buddhism, can, carlos castaneda, cevin key, the cure, depeche mode, the detroit originators, doubting thomas, dub, electric masada, erik satie, evolutionary psychology, fj desanto, the future sound of london, hardfloor, harmonia, hatha yoga, jeff mills, joey beltram, kraftwerk, ltj bukem, maurizio, miles davis, neil landstrumm, new order, nick drake, nlp, obscurum, old acid 12"'s, old hip hop, old house records, oliver ho, orbital, the police, prototype 909, richie hawtin, regis, richard james, seiko corp., SND, (sonic) groove, steve reich, stewart walker, sun electric, the sundays, surgeon, tantrism, thomas mapfumo, transelectronic theory
baye is the main electronic music project of mike venezia. mike’s musical career began when he started contributing programming and synthesis work to cult nyc industrial band the aggression. he later started a project called 4th level and with partner justin d’agostino released a series of respected 12"’s on u.k. imprint auk recordings. mike next launched a side project with rj valeo called carbon framework and released one 12" on auk also. after auk’s demise he again worked with the aggression, doing production and remix work and gigging both home and abroad. it was then that he developed his guitar style, and a few years later started in loving memory (http://www.myspace.com/inloving) as an outlet for guitar-based music. with all of the experience (and gear!) amassed from these other projects mike started baye to further develop ideas for (mostly) electronic compositions that require his full control over production. though some of the tracks have various contributors, the one common element to baye tracks is mike at the helm.
Hi Mike! I just wanted to let you know that my album is done and should be available next month. Meanwhile, the entirety of the album is streamable on Last.fm: http://www.last.fm/music/Tristâme/Unraveling+Horizons Hope all is well with you. R.
