THH70 - synthesizers, percussion, programming, and anything else he can get his hands on...
Influences
fila brazillia, heights of abraham, the cutler, pork recordings, tangerine dream, !K7 records, kraftwerk, bjork, brian eno, dntel, john coltrane, joni mitchell, kruder & dorfmeister, lemon jelly, massive attack, miles davis, nick drake, peace orchestra, radiohead, sade, sigur ro, stormchild, steel tiger records, the beatles, tom waits, vikter duplaix, air, autechre, boards of canada, chicane, clinic, cocteau twins, the knife, marconi union, jon brion, photek, solid doctor, moss, dj shadow, engineers, funkstorung, goldfrapp, iron & wine, jazzanova, lamb, prince, michael fakesch, taprikk sweezee, hot chip, tosca, bullitnuts, nina simone, paul williams, mute math, portishead, postal service, prefuse 73, mos def, robert fripp, cottonbelly, zero 7, telefon tel aviv, artful dodger, severin24, panda transport, terry callier, david wilcox, manna, UNKLE, j*s*t*a*r*s, IIUU, trashpal...and that's just the beginning...
available in digital-only format across the Internet!
"demologiQue: explorations in texture", a newly-assembled collection of songs written, produced, and performed by multimedia artist THH70, is now available and on sale NOW!
The premise of the album is simple: meant as a personal experiment, in order to keep the project as textured, organic and "lo-fi" as possible, the album was recorded digitally, yet no final mixing, equalization or mastering was performed. To add insult to injury, the complete album was mixed down to the convenient sound format of yore: a cassette tape.
What you will hear is nothing but pure thoughts. Pure ideas. Pure music. Pure THH70.
**TAKEN FROM THE THH70 WEBSITE AT THH70ONLINE.COM**
THH70 was born in human form in 1970 in Los Angeles, California, but the "persona" of his nom de plume was conceived in late 1994 as a stage name for his then-burgeoning music career. Consequently, he is now an accomplished worldwide-selling visual artist, with his works in private and corporate collections on every continent. Since beginning to actively market and sell his artwork in November 2000, he has sold approximately 900 mixed media pieces worldwide (with that number continuing to grow), and is considered a “P.T. Barnum-esque” showman of marketing and self-promotion, with his website garnering roughly 25,000 hits per month with virtually no third-party advertising.
THH70 is known worldwide for his unique artistic approach that he has branded "lo-fi urban abstract graffiti" where, painting on a wide variety of surfaces, he combines crude painterly techniques utilizing materials and media that include everything from acrylics to spray paint to household products like Windex and X-14 mildew remover with his own style of crude stream of consciousness wordplay and text.
In the "brick and mortar" gallery world, THH70 and his own blend of visual mania have shown in solo and group shows across the United States at such important art galleries as BLK/MRKT Gallery in Los Angeles, known to many as the apex of optimum alternative art on the West Coast, and the fashionable Diesel Gallery in New York City. Along the way, his work has been seen in galleries and art houses across the country, beginning with an auspicious 45-piece solo show at the now-defunct Organic Gallery in Silverlake, California. More recently, he was personally invited to be an artist in BLK/MRKT Gallery’s first “Artist’s Annual” in 2006 along with 24 other artists across the globe (including the likes of Jeff Soto, Tiffany Bozic, Dave Kinsey, Evan Hecox, David Choe, Tes One, and WK Interact) that are considered the cream of the Alternative Art crop. The show was meticulously documented, and a hardcover leather-bound full-color catalogue, entitled “BLK/MRKT: ONE”, was published and released across the world by famed European art publisher Die Gestalten.
In early-2002, THH70, sensing an absence in the online marketplace for a central hub for like-minded artists to collectively exhibit their work, as well as to be a jump-off point to inform current and potential collectors of their website, gallery, auction, and sales information, he created AOA – Alternative Online Artists, an online nationwide juried collective of almost 30 artists. Since founded, AOA has selected and maintained a group of the nation’s most diverse, successful and consistent alternative artists (with these artists encompassing the many styles of Pop, Outsider, Graffiti, Fluxus, Dada, Contemporary, Modern, Lowbrow, Urban, Abstract, Graphic Design, and Folk, as well as entering into the now-lucrative arena of limited edition vinyl art toys). These AOA artists (which has included such luminaries as Jesse Reno, Rik Catlow, Gus Fink, Tim Hall, SFAUSTINA, and of course, THH70) continue to make ever-crashing waves in the art world.
In late 2005, THH70 was interviewed at length on film for the soon-to-be-released documentary “America’s Chemical Angels”, a film by documentarian Oxana Chumak about the overmedication of children with ADD/ADHD. In addition to the interview footage, THH70’s seminal 2002 painting “RITALIN®” is featured prominently in the film, as well as in it’s promotional advertising.
THH70 is also an accomplished musician/recording artist. He was tour keyboardist for Billboard Top 10 New Age recording artist Nicholas Gunn, and was subsequently signed to a multi-album recording contract by a national record label. In 2003, he wrote and performed on Mr. Gunn’s commercially and critically acclaimed album “Journey To Yellowstone”, with his penned "Nature's Cry" garnering the most radio play of any song on that album. In June 2007, THH70 digitally released an album across the Internet under the moniker ELEMENTAL with his periodic music partner David Damato. The latest THH70 solo album, entitled "demologiQue: explorations in texture" was released in January of 2008.
THH70 also has added “voice actor” to his extensive creative resumé, as he recently
was hired by top animation and video game sound design company Okratron 5000
to voice multiple characters for the Japanese anime series “Glass Fleet – The Legend
of the Wind of the Universe (Garasu no Kantai)”.
As of October 2007, THH70 is now headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
