We are each the sums we have not counted. Subtract us into nakedness and night again and you will find, beginning in Crete 4,000 years ago, the love that ended yesterday in Texas, or the funk that ended today in my washing machine...
SURFACE 10 (aka SURFACE 10 ACTIVITY) - Hopelessly infested with an endless desire to translate the abstract into discernible music, Dean De Benedictis has been drenched in a virtual stigmata of echoes from his vintage music history and slight flash-back tendencies toward its homage. Ever since Dean's project, Surface 10, debuted on Hypnotic Records in the 90s, it has served as his most logical excuse to infuse melodic emotion with the grinding dig of cutting edge methodology used in music mirroring technological advancement. Lingering on a style template (or base) within the last few years that some refer to as "IDM" or "Glitch" (experimental electronica) Surface 10 Activity has lost and gained variations of fan bases, a stability he was willing to sacrifice for his creative freedom and relished unpredictability. This latest CD by Surface 10, entitled "Surface Tensions," was yet another mesh of newer tracks, and newer improvements (impressions) of older tracks. "Surface Tensions" is the second Surface 10 release on British label DiN Records, run by electronic musician Ian Boddy. //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// A BRIEF MUSICAL HISTORY: In 1996 Dean De Benedictis released the debut ambient/electronic music (borderline space rock) CD on Hypnotic/Cleopatra Records, which was self titled under the moniker SURFACE 10. Following that was Dean's collaberation project with George Sara (of THC) called Cathexis, releasing the CD Exempli Gratia, in 1997 (also on Hypnotic/Cleopatra), a CD in a techno/trance vein. Just after these initial releases Dean appeared on various compilations (and in various genres) for labels like Hypnos, Lektronic Soundscapes, Cleopatra, Moonshine, Bottom Heavy, and others. In the year 2000, Surface 10 (Dean) put out a technologically edgy, progressive, IDM style overture called "In Vitro Tide" on DiN Records; following that was his tribal ambient CD release A Lone Reply, debuted under his own name on Fateless Music in 2001. Dean then formed the Fateless Flows Collective and appeared on their compilations for 2004 and 2005. In 2004 the Surface 10 CD Borrowed Time 2000 was made available by Space For Music Records, as a compilation of previously unreleased material spanning 1994-2004. To read Dean's online interview with Phthalo Records go to http://phthalo.com/art.php?art=Dean_DeBenedictis_Interview ......................................./ ......................................./ ......................................./ ......................................./ ......................................./ ......................................./
TO PURCHASE A COPY OF THE SURFACE 10 RELEASE "IN VITRO TIDE" (2000, DIN RECORDS)
http://din.org.uk/surface10 ......................................./ TO BUY THE SURFACE 10 RELEASE"BORROWED TIME 2000" (2004, SPACE FOR MUSIC)
http://fatelessmusic.com/surface10.html ......................................./ TO BUY THE FATELESS FLOWS COLLECTIVE VOLUME 1 (2003)
http://fatelessflows.com ......................................./ TO BUY THE FATELESS FLOWS COLLECTIVE VOLUME 2 "SHADOWMATH" (2005)
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Unique and forward thinking... you're paving the way! Wish you loads more success! Drop by and say hi anytime NEW tracks coming collabs with L.A Producer Keith Lamar Have a love filled day! Suzy x
try to make one of these biomass shows dean !
