Our artists are creammm… of the crop. Each masterful in their own right. No bedroom producers here, just top notch ear candy. Who do you want answering the phone at three in the morning?
VTG
VTG is dirty, sexy, electro rock. Tender breaking up music, filthy fuck music. Each release has found frontman, Lawrence Stone, hitting another unique spot in the alt. music spectrum. From 2004’s So Beautiful People Look Away, a “glorious journey into musical fusion from a frighteningly talented musician…” to 2009’s hard-hitting electro rock release, Love is Letting Go, VTG continuously reminds us what it sounds like to mix hard funky beats, heavy sonic textures and a little rock gee-tar. “This is breakbeat, trip-hop, industrial loveliness – sublime, passionate and very, very smart.”
[www.vtgmusic.com]
0mnis0und
0mnis0und is the tender, sultry side of 3am Devices. Using a Rich Palette to create sinister grooves, 0mniS0und continues to push the sonic threshold. Combining old school outboard gear with new school technology, 0mniS0und’s massive presence and unique throbbing sound design brings the world of modern music a new genre.
[www.myspace.com/0mnis0und]
Warmer
Warmer is intelligent conceptual music made for thinkers first and masses second. ”…both accessible and unique.” That is a balance Gunn often speaks of when asked about his choice of arrangement and voicing. Those fond of walls of guitar rock beef steak mixed with heavy slabs of deep drums followed up by a course of crafty lyrics will find more than enough interesting flavors to keep their sonic palate salivating for more.
[www.myspace.com/warmer]
K.O.F.Y
K.O.F.Y is Winston Kofy Ahman, music producer and spoken word artist. He combines hip hop, dub and electronics with spoken word poetry, rooted in his Nigerian-Jamaican descent. Ahman started as a crack dealer in his home town Lagos, Nigeria, in the late seventies, but soon got involved in politics: for engaging in various activities against the rule of General Obasanjo, he had reportedly spent a total of seven years in prison, where he once allegedly shared a cell with the great Fela Kuti.
During the eighties, Ahman fled Nigeria and moved first to Kingston, Jamaica and then to Miami, Florida, where he got his moniker K.O.F.Y, working as a doorman in a Latino gay bar.
By the arrival of the Bush administration in 2001, Ahman left the USA in fear of deportation and moved to Basel, Switzerland, where he got involved in music, making beats on his laptop and improvising a set of self-centered post-political lyrics. His first album under the title “Return of the Secretary General EP” was recorded in just seven days. K.O.F.Y has recently moved to Belgrade, Serbia, where he is currently residing.
Disonaur
A musician and composer born and raised in the Bay Area, Nick Bonardi’s sound is a vast and cinematic blend of traditional instrumentation with post-IDM electronic. Clean, sharp, and artfully structured, his music sews an engineer’s ear to a storyteller’s brain. Since attaining his BA in 2005 from Berklee School of Music, Nick has performed live, scored films and video games, and freelanced as an audio programmer. His current project, Disonaur, recently completed their first album. Nick lives and makes music in San Francisco.
[www.twitter.com/disonaur]
