Dj Darkat, Doc Oliver, Tweaktech, and Earflaps. also, balanceman is our hi tech consultant and volume advisor. He does all of our subliminal tracks....
Influences
Everything but young Country.
marijuana, LSD, beer,
Radio, television, film,
the world around us
Sounds Like
things found in the basement, our own brand of madness, tell us who we sound like. the aftermath of a head on car crash with negativeland and the beastie boys...
It all started back in 1999 with a man we call balanceman. He got together with Dj Darkat at the now-defunct Vulcanradio.com and they started arranging beats and samples together. Tweaktech and myself, Doc oliver joined in on the fun, and we started making a lot of noise, quite frequently. Sort of like the Beastie Boys and Negativeland had a head on collision while on tour, and the result was catfive. With the help of Balanceman and lcoal bay area record label HipHopSlam, we produced Kataphonics, our first Full length Cd Release. It blew up locally, and got a little airplay across the country, rockin the college stations for a few weeks. the media wanted to write stories about us, and we were having a great ol time. the songs progressed from disjointed chaos into a sort of listenable background hum, kind of like what one would experience after ingesting several doses of LSD and not sleeping for 3 days. balanceman introduced us to another local cat, formerly known as Earflaps, a criss cross dj scratch master from oakland, who added another layer of dimentia to the mix. (he still likes childrens records). Balanceman left the group in 2001, shortly after the release of Kataphonics to pursue a solo career and further his knowledge of the world. We pressed on, and said we can do this ourselves. So we scrimped and saved every penny from shows and started producing our own records. We have released 4 so far: American Military operations,(7" red clear vinyl), On the Rise, a 12" EP, and a Dj darkat Solo record, Omnia Ab uno, plus Earflaps did a split 12" with another local Cat Edaboss, and rocked some bhangra and old school trax.
Now we have our current release Big Brother runs the Company, a full length Cd availalbe for free at katfive.com, and we're working on a full length DVD video project, which we hope to release in the next few months.
7 years has pretty mcuh flown by, and we're ready for a few more!
Check it out! I wrote a free book on music production! It's for total beginners, but if you aren't new to music production, maybe you'll still learn something... at least you can send it to your friends who always want to ask you a billion questions about music production! It's totally free too; my goal with this is to accumulate as many BFF's as possible.
Hey did ya have a good Turkey Day? I know i did.... still pretty full but ready for thos eleft overs LOL!!!
Anyways... me and my cousin joined this new place since myspace has so much spam these days and put our profiles up and need some help getting it popular!
Just checking in boys, how are you today! My album is done and pressed and released (in my city at least). I'm pretty excited about it, I've been performing live songs off the disc on my MPC2000 and getting great response! I've also been practicing my spinning/mixing/juggling alot too, rocking some college house parties for freinds using only 45rpm vinly from my steadily growing collection and also getting good response from complete strangers! I'm also working on a music video for one of the songs off the album. If someone links me an address I can send you guys a copy of it. What's the news with the nasty cat?
