Good music from all over the world including funk, dub, jazz, breakbeat, rock and classical; far too many bands to list. Other influences are the places we visit and the people we meet on our travels, surfing, mountains, surfing down mountains, science fiction (Iain M. Banks in particular) and tequila.
Sounds Like
Tracks from 'Fourthought'
OOOD Live @ Club V-SO, Martigny, Switzerland - Feb 22 2008 Click here to download it or click here to stream it.
DJ Mixes 17th August 2009 - New mixes added including Steve OOOD - Psy House 2
Download OOOD's DJ mixes here: www.sendspace.com/folder/nz6out
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There are now over 20 mixes online with many more available on request, including:
Psytrance
Progressive Trance
Minimal
Electro/Progressive
Breaks & Electro
Chillout
Eclectic
New mixes are being added all the time so check back regularly!
The label on the shelf in the record store says 'psytrance' but that doesn't tell the whole story. Funk, humour and an open-minded approach to psychedelic dance music combine with a distinctive production style 14 years in the making, creating a main-room sound that's fresh and unique whilst remaining accessible. Taking influences from across the spectrum of the current trance scene and beyond, including prog, full-on, goa and good honest psytrance as well as breakbeat, dub, electro and house, their recordings add class to any DJs set. On stage, their performances are more live than most, adding live guitar, acoustic and electronic drums and percussion, keyboards, samples and general wierdness to make a show that provides the best of both worlds - a musical extravaganza with a strong visual impact. Free to adjust their live sets on-the-fly to the mood of any dancefloor without ever losing the power of their renowned production, OOOD can groove - and the dancefloor loves it.
OOOD (aka. Out Of Our Depth) are 4 blokes from England whose mission is to have a good time, spread a little joy and write some blinding psy-trance in the process. Originally formed in 1994 by Colin Bennun, Nigel Bradbury and Stephen Callaghan, the current line-up is Colin, Steve and new members (but old friends) Ramsay Melhuish and Ryokan Potier. As well as being talented DJs they bring an extra live element to OOOD's live shows, adding live drums, percussion, guitar and psychedelia. A live band from their inception, OOOD have been gigging since they formed in Oxford, honing their craft at local events. Their very first performance in London (at Otherworld) was described in Dream Creation magazine as "bang on, with a power and a quality all too often lacking in some of the more well-known atists". On the UK party circuit their performances include live sets at Glade, Wickerman and Beat-Herder festivals, Synergy Project, Tribe of Frog, Cabbage, Strange Daze, Otherworld, Return to the Source, Escape from Samsara, Pagan & many many others.
OOOD's first release was on Phantasm Records in 1996, with their collaborative side-project Unconscious Collective subsequently releasing one of Flying Rhino's biggest-selling tracks, 'Fluorostani Transcendance' later that year. Nowadays the dancefloor side of both acts is combined into OOOD, and the Unconscious Collective remains as a focus for the more eclectic, often chilled-out but always inventive non-trancefloor output of the group. With up to 6 people on stage and musicianship of all kinds very much in evidence in both OOOD and Unconscious Collective, they have performed live (in various combinations) all over the world from New York to Japan via South Africa, Israel and of course the UK and Europe. Recently they played at Omni Festival in Spain and in South Africa for the Vortex/Prism New Years Eve Festival 2004-5.
OOOD on CD
aLIVE... and Kicking
The first OOOD album aLIVE was released on Cabbaged Records (UK) in 1997 and was probably the first ever live album released as a debut by a psy-trance act. A stunning exposition of the unique psychedelic sound of OOOD, the album was recorded live - and we mean LIVE - at parties across the UK including Pagan's fabled New Years Eve party, Science Fiction and Otherworld at the Fridge in London. Many years after its release this seminal album is still sought after by trance-heads across the world.
Breathing Space... Refining the formula
Two years after their debut album came OOOD's second long player Breathing Space. Ranging from full-on neuro bashing psychedelia to utter ambient via dub and chilled breaks, Breathing Space ventured beyond class A dancefloor mayhem to include the mellower side of OOOD's sonic headspace. Showcasing the dramatic effect a studio upgrade can have, the album marked a step-change in the quality of OOOD's productions and was released independently on OOOD Records distrubuted by MRL (aka. Kukomi). Now also a collector's item, copies of the CD have sold for silly money on eBay (although you can apparently still buy it in Tower Records in Tel Aviv).
Free Range... No dancefloor is safe
Over a year after it was first announced, and after 6 years of work, their third album Free Range was released on Organic Records in late 2006. Although aimed solidly at the dancefloor, this is more than a straight-ahead trance album (as the title suggests), and - with a fresh infusion of inspiration from the new members - sees once more a great improvement in production values alongside OOOD's trademark unique storytelling style and sense of humour. An indication of things to come, the title track was released to much acclaim on the Organic Records compilation 'Invasion from Hyperspace', and was sub-licensed to Jon '00' Fleming's 'White Label Republic' compilation.
Fourthought... Fourwarned is fourarmed
Two years in the studio and a new partnership with Phar Psyde Records brought forth Fourthought, OOOD's fourth album and Phar Psyde's fourth release. The fourth is strong in this one, and quotes from the reviews will describe it better than promo blurb ever can:
"With Fourthought, the greatness of their best work seems to have infected the entire album"... "This album gets an 11/10 for its diversity, for its energy and most of all for its very good engineering and programming."... "In short, not one song here comes close to average. Fourthought is one of the best Psytrance albums of 2008."
Eminently Bookable... Have headphones, will travel
The band are currently playing live sets as both OOOD and Unconscious Collective and were voted in a recent poll on psy-forum.co.uk as one of the top live acts in the UK, sharing their place with Ott and Eat Static. All four members have been DJing extensively, with Steve, Ryo, and Rama packing out dancefloors and backrooms all over and Colin playing sets consisting mostly of his own projects and collaborations. Whilst they are more than capable of rocking any main room or chillout for a short two hours, they are fond of playing back-to-back and are noted for specialising in the extended 'journey' type sets currently in such short supply, as shown by their recent residency at Tribe Of Frog in Bristol, for which the Collective regularly provided the music all night in one of the rooms. Colin is also part of Voice of Cod, whose debut album 'We Are Free' was released on Organic Records in October 2005.
These recordings have been carefully handmade in the finest tooled leather. Maximum use of household electricity in conjunction with specially developed Fluorostani wacka-wacka modelling techniques have enabled us to produce a port resonance perfectly centred in the binomial width-enhancer matrix. Lovevalve parameters have been carefully adjusted so that the MIDI controllable toggle/boggle delay switch glitch control gives nominal impedance with an ergonomic design which is also pleasing to the eye, and the Venus Flytrap front baffle loading coefficient ensures perfect Rhapsalidopses every spring with careful pruning. Minimising perceptual jitter in this way is known to make the music smell really loud.
Old-fashioned stereophonic technology allied with the newest hydroponic speaker designs have given us total harmonic control, and given you total listening pleasure; the monitors used on this project were homemade using the latest in paper/shred hemp technology, string and water. Three static flange injectors and deep folly joyloading have meant that the influence of German satellite TV has been kept to an absolute maximum, and we used a squeaky hammer for the snare drum on a track that's not actually on this album.
AntiShanti Records proudly presents a debut release – Psyclone.
This special release delivers nine unique tracks from artists from
around the world that will truly inspire you imagination and will
send you on a mind twisting journey. With every turn, ascend and
descend this psychedelic rollercoaster will raise your adrenaline
level to it’s highest and will keep your heart pounding for hours.
This exciting adventure was specially prepared for you by AntiShanti
Records team and features the following artists – Jellyheadz, Wizack
Twizack, Ectogasmics, Transdriver, Melorix, Polyphonia, Parus, Progress
and Prishvin Mess. Hop on and enjoy the ride!
Coming Soon! String Theory Recordings presents, STRR003: 0045 & El Nino "Act Like Ya Know" in stores December 8, 2009. Featuring 4 tracks of intelligent dance music, including mixes from, CC Rock (Breaks mix), 0045 & Ethan Klein (Disco House mix), Justin James (chicago) (Fidget House mix), and the original mix by 0045 & El Nino (Tech House mix).
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
Coming Soon! String Theory Recordings presents, STRR002: Dubclot "Yout Man", in stores November 24, 2009. Featuring 4 mixes of Breakbeat dance music. Including mixes from Dubclot, Beat Mavericks, and James Nao.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
Check out the debut release on String Theory Recordings, STRR001: CC Rock_String Theory , in stores November 10, 2009. Featuring 4 mixes of House music (Progressive, Deep, Tech). Including mixes from CC Rock, Aleksus Sanchez, Locklear & Poppin, and RioTGeaR.
How are You? I hope you still ok! I have News my friend, so listen the newest Track "Under Control" in my player! The Debut-Album "Time4Revolution" of my Project "2012Conection" is released on 16.11.2009 by digitalFrequenz-Records!
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Do you like my music? I just discovered another cool site with lots of artists of various styles: amiestreet.com! Of course, I put my whole disco on it, and now it's available to you for downloading :)
How are you, OOOD? Haven't checked in on you lately, so I swung by to wish you a happy halloween & hope you are feeling well! Listen, I have another track up on my page, "Attack Of The Mushroom People." You can Hear it right Now, if you'd like at: www.myspace.com/psychedelicpablo adios for now! Pablo
aLIVE... and Kicking
Breathing Space... Refining the formula
Free Range... No dancefloor is safe
Fourthought... Fourwarned is fourarmed
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