Rip Van Hippy, aka Geoffrey Hales began playing music in the late sixties in Australia, travelled the hippy trails of India, Morocco in the early seventies,studying and collecting percussion, returned to australia and performed with the white company,a group of musicians actors and dancers put together to tour australia to publicize the aquarius festival in nimbin,then toured and recorded with'captain matchbox'. eventually landing in Los Angeles, working with inspirational musicians such as, Herb Alpert,victor feldman,t bone burnett,abe laboriel, lee oskar,he performed and recorded with Osama Kitajima for ten years and on various movie soundtracks such as Shogun, The Year of Living Dangerously. Toured Japan and Europe many times and played at the Monterey Jazz Festival (81) and the Technics Jazz Festival in Tokyo and Osaka (83).
Returning back to Australia in the late eighties Geoffrey worked as a session percussionist for many of the top Australian recording artists,including crowded house,cruel sea,tiddas ,touring with ollie olsens'third eye'also recorded for several gus till projects and with japanese seminal art group'the boredoms'.his percussion featured on the peter weir film,'the truman show'.writing advertising jingles for Uncle Toby's, Mercedes Benz etc, while producing recording his unique style of psychedelic electronic music, first under the moniker of 'Tripitaka' with releases on Matsuri Productions (UK/Japan) and Return to the Source (uk).
Geoffrey also one half of Fluro Conspiracy (Psy-Harmonics /Transient) with Ollie Olsen and has collaborated with Andrew Till & Ollie Olsen on their The Visitors project (Psy-Harmonics/Transient/Matsuri/ Return to the source) and co-wrote Psyko Disko's hit single 'Getaway' released on Flying Rhino & Psy-Harmonics. Finally with Rip Van Hippy Geoffrey began experimenting with his intensive knowledge of rhythm, sounds and composition with the release of his debut album 'Waking Up is Hard to Do!' followed by 'When Bernie was a Tree' then 'the whole worlds hip and thats not cool'gaining a strong support from the media and loyal followers from around the World. playing at events such as the Outback Eclipse Festival (Australia)liquid room[tokyo], Mt.Fuji Rock Festival (Japan), Magical Forest (Greece), Rolling Thunder (Sado Island,Japan),nagisa[tokyo]the cube[tokyo],oshino dead[japan]many earthcores and other bush partiesl (Australia).
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.
How are you, rip van hippy? 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
Hey whatsup, I have a new release titled "The Drum" a collaboration with DJ INside, part of the Quanza Summer Sampler Part 3. Check it out if you can. Thanks!
Hello,
just letting you know that my new double CD album is finally released and available in Saikosounds, Psyshop and other CD shops as well as digital downloads at Beatport, iTunes and more. Hope you'll enjoy!
All the bests,
Adam
Thank you very much for da Link Up & Sharing the Music
Nice to meet you through cyberlink!
Keep up da Great Work!
Wishes you All da Best in 2009!
Enjoy your Week
Ground shattering 1st release on Doppelganger Records by Galaxian. 7 tracks of sublime electro inspiration. Dark atmospherics, menacing basslines and creeping grooves combine to make this a future classic.
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