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Genre: Experimental / Live Electronics / Visual
Location LOS ANGELES, California, US
Profile Views: 61518
Last Login: 6/8/2012
Member Since 7/19/2004
Website strangelooptv.com
Record Label Brainfeeder LA
Type of Label Major
Bio
.... I can tell you he is seriously involved in pioneering the next step in the evolution of performance, fusing sonics, narrative, and visuals into an overwhelming hyper-sensory experience.” – Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC1 .... "Epic." -Flying Lotus .... "absolutely mentaaaal, beautifully nuts!" -DJ Simbad .... "Okay, so after watching the [promo] video for like the hundredth time, I must say it is unbelievably good" -Daddy Kev .... "Amazing. Genius." -Kid Kameleon .... "This is over 15 minutes long and a real journey into the weird and wonderful world of Dr Strangeloop. You might know him as the visuals man behind some of the superb Brainfeeder events but his producer skills haven't had any previous outings. This EP proves that some artists are just artists, regardless of the medium they use, Dr Strangeloop is one of them." -Bleep .... "The mysterious Dr Strangeloop met Brainfeeder label boss Flying Lotus back in their days at the Academy Of Arts in San Francisco, where they bonded over an appreciation of avant-garde film and obscure electronic music. Having taken to VJing as an outlet for his love of abstract visuals, Strangeloop's work has accompanied live sets by the various members of the Brainfeeder roster such as FLying Lotus himself, Samiyam, The Gaslamp Killer and other beat makers like Kode 9, Joker and Dorian Concept. Now with this eighteen-minute splurge of sound, Strangeloop showcases his music production skills, and true to the art of VJing it's a versatile, freeform stream of different narrative subsections and episodes. Rather than trying to compete in the heaviness stakes with his labelmates, there's a fluctuating, filmic quality to Strangeloop's music: scratchy old piano recordings instill a sense of minor key melodrama in the piece while noisy electronic tones and thumb piano twangs snake around the mix forming clusters of melody, but the most surprising constituent in this soupy barrage would be the drums. Beats dissolve into the production with a thrashy finesse, contributing to a mood that's comparable with the free-thinking hip hop variants of Four Tet or Dosh. Ace." -Boomkat .... "Known for his stellar visual executions during live shows Dr. Strangeloop has released an album with one very long, and interesting track. Are We Lost Mammals of an Approaching Transcendental Epoch? is best described as fringe electronic, and is a testament to this artists perspective on visual language as well as his musical language. Feels lo-fi and spaced out at times mixed with dark samples and crushing drums. This is another fine addition to the Brainfeeder family which is in my opinion the premier genre-pushing label today." -Yes Yes Y'all ........ ...... .. .... ...... ...... .... ....
Members
..David Wexler (VJ / composer).. .......... Management - Renegade Vision.. Ryan Kofman - RK(at)renegadevision(dot)com.. ......
Influences
...... ..Austin Peralta, Jogger, Daedelus, Eskmo, 16-Bit, Four Tet, Apparat, GB, Shackleton, Clark, Squarepusher, Do Make Say Think, Godspeed You Black Emporer, The Books, Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin, Flying Lotus, Dorian Concept, GasLamp Killer, Ras G, SamiYam, Mono/Poly, Kode 9, Venetian Snares, György Ligeti, Cliff Martinez, Mingus, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, Kaki King, Radiohead, Stravinsky, Mum, Caribou, Fennesz, John Cage, Steve Reich, blenders, information, entheogens, deities, alphabets, phi, geometry, fractals, Alejandro Jodorosky, Stanley Kubrick, Andrei Tarkovsky, Maya Deren, Daron Daronofsky, Mobius, Leigh McCloskey, H.R. Giger, Alex Gray, Robert Venosa, Scott Pagano, J.P. Frenay, Alex Rutterford, Chris Cunningham, Michel Gondry, my family .............
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I can tell you he is seriously involved in pioneering the next step in the evolution of performance, fusing sonics, narrative, and visuals into an overwhelming hyper-sensory experience.” – Mary Anne Hobbs on BBC1

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"Epic." -Flying Lotus

"absolutely mentaaaal, beautifully nuts!" -DJ Simbad

"Okay, so after watching the [promo] video for like the hundredth time, I must say it is unbelievably good" -Daddy Kev

"Amazing. Genius." -Kid Kameleon

"This is over 15 minutes long and a real journey into the weird and wonderful world of Dr Strangeloop. You might know him as the visuals man behind some of the superb Brainfeeder events but his producer skills haven't had any previous outings. This EP proves that some artists are just artists, regardless of the medium they use, Dr Strangeloop is one of them." -Bleep

"The mysterious Dr Strangeloop met Brainfeeder label boss Flying Lotus back in their days at the Academy Of Arts in San Francisco, where they bonded over an appreciation of avant-garde film and obscure electronic music. Having taken to VJing as an outlet for his love of abstract visuals, Strangeloop's work has accompanied live sets by the various members of the Brainfeeder roster such as FLying Lotus himself, Samiyam, The Gaslamp Killer and other beat makers like Kode 9, Joker and Dorian Concept. Now with this eighteen-minute splurge of sound, Strangeloop showcases his music production skills, and true to the art of VJing it's a versatile, freeform stream of different narrative subsections and episodes. Rather than trying to compete in the heaviness stakes with his labelmates, there's a fluctuating, filmic quality to Strangeloop's music: scratchy old piano recordings instill a sense of minor key melodrama in the piece while noisy electronic tones and thumb piano twangs snake around the mix forming clusters of melody, but the most surprising constituent in this soupy barrage would be the drums. Beats dissolve into the production with a thrashy finesse, contributing to a mood that's comparable with the free-thinking hip hop variants of Four Tet or Dosh. Ace." -Boomkat

"Known for his stellar visual executions during live shows Dr. Strangeloop has released an album with one very long, and interesting track. Are We Lost Mammals of an Approaching Transcendental Epoch? is best described as fringe electronic, and is a testament to this artists perspective on visual language as well as his musical language. Feels lo-fi and spaced out at times mixed with dark samples and crushing drums. This is another fine addition to the Brainfeeder family which is in my opinion the premier genre-pushing label today." -Yes Yes Y'all ..