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▓█▀▄▄ Artist : Dust Galaxy ▄▄▀█▓
▐▓▌▐█▌ Album : Dust Galaxy ▐█▌▓▌
▐▀▄██ Label : Emerald Tablet Music ██▄▀▌
▄███▌ Genre : Rock ▐███▄
▀███▌ Source : CD ▐███▀
▐▄▀██ Street Date : 2007-11-05 ██▀▄▌
▐▓▌▐█▌ Quality : 994 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels ▐█▌▐▓▌
▓█▄▀▀ Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1 ▀▀▄█▓
▓███ Size : 308.63 MB ███▓
▀ ▀█▌ Time : 41:32 min ▐█▀ ▀
▓▄███ Url : http://www.dustgalaxy.com ███▄▓
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████ "For me, great records are always about salvation, redemption, ████
████ reflection, the ████
████ dirt and the beauty, living through your own trials and ████
████ experiences," says Rob ████
████ Garza, one half of electronic music pioneers Thievery Corporation ████
████ and the brains ████
████ behind his new solo project Dust Galaxy, "What I love about some ████
████ of my favorite ████
████ records like "Sandanista," "Sgt. Peppers," "Odyssey and Oracle," ████
████ and "Sunshine ████
████ Superman" is the way they drift through different musical ████
████ temperaments." Having ████
████ spent the past ten years creating, producing, remixing and ████
████ touring as part of ████
████ Thievery Corporation, Garza has worked with, and been influenced ████
████ by an endless ████
████ list of diverse artists. "Through the course of working as a ████
████ producer in ████
████ Thievery Corporation, I've had the opportunity to work with many ████
████ talented ████
████ singers and instrumentalists. During this time period, I've also ████
████ learned to play ████
████ more instruments myself. This project finally allows me to step ████
████ out from behind ████
████ the control booth to continue expressing myself as a songwriter ████
████ as well as a ████
████ performer and musician." ████
████ ████
████ Which brings us to his latest creation, Dust Galaxy. "After the ████
████ completion of ████
████ the last Thievery record and tour, and a trip to Sudan for the UN ████
████ World Food ████
████ Program (for which he and Eric Hilton from Thievery are ████
████ spokesmen), I was ████
████ ultimately inspired to make a very personal musical reflection of ████
████ my continuing ████
████ journey." In recording Dust Galaxy he enlisted producer Brendan ████
████ Lynch (Primal ████
████ Scream, Paul Weller) to push the UK take on older American sounds ████
████ with more grit ████
████ and psychedelia. ████
████ ████
████ Says Garza, "I loved Brendan's remixes like Mathars "Indian ████
████ Vibes," and the ████
████ remix he did of Thievery's "Revolution Solution" as well as his ████
████ production work, ████
████ and thought he would be the best fit to get the sound that I was ████
████ looking for ████
████ with Dust Galaxy. People often think that I spend all my time ████
████ submerged in ████
████ electronic music, but I listen to and am influenced by a broad ████
████ spectrum of ████
████ music, People are quick to come up with labels to identify you ████
████ with. The hardest ████
████ thing is when you create your own label for yourself, and then ████
████ try to break out ████
████ of it - that's the real struggle." ████
████ ████
████ Throughout the course of a year, most of that time spent in and ████
████ around various ████
████ London studios, as well as time in legendary Inner Ear studios, ████
████ Garza set to ████
████ bring his vision to life with an array of supporting musicians. ████
████ Shawn Lee, ████
████ Martin Duffy & Darrin Mooney from Primal Scream, Adam Blake of ████
████ Cornershop, Jim ████
████ Townsend (the People's Revolutionary Choir), Didi Gutman ████
████ (Brazilian Girls), ████
████ James Canty (The Make-Up, Ted Leo/Pharmacists), Jerry Busher ████
████ (French Toast, ████
████ Fugazi) all lent their talents to the record. ████
████ ████
████ "The collaborative nature of the project allowed me the unique ████
████ opportunity to ████
████ work both in the studio and play live with artists whom I admire. ████
████ It was a quite ████
████ a change to be on the other side of the booth. I honestly feel ████
████ like my ████
████ perspective about music production in general has even evolved," ████
████ he muses. ████
████ ████
████ The result melds the sounds of psychedelic India, British paisley ████
████ beats, ████
████ post-punk, and roots rock into a riveting and unique combination. ████
████ ████
████ He continues, "My goal was to make a record that reflected my ████
████ tastes, both ████
████ personally, and musically. There are a lot of elements in this ████
████ record that would ████
████ be out of place on a Thievery album. There are still a lot of ████
████ electronic ████
████ elements, but a punk rock song on a Thievery album would probably ████
████ come across as ████
████ forced or contrived." ████
████ ████
████ Of course that history with Thievery Corporation is well ████
████ documented. ████
████ ████
████ "I bought my first synth at age 14; my father got a new job in ████
████ Connecticut, ████
████ which happened to have one of the only high school electronic ████
████ music programs in ████
████ the country. Hip-hop was really coming on the scene, so I started ████
████ programming ████
████ beats for fellow students. At that time I was listening to a lot ████
████ of abrasive ████
████ music where people were experimenting with sampling. It was an ████
████ opening which I ████
████ would find my way through. I remember putting out techno records ████
████ in the early ████
████ 90's and really being captivated with the new technology, then ████
████ suddenly ████
████ gravitating to bossa and jazz. He continues, "None of my peers ████
████ could understand ████
████ my new direction in any way." ████
████ ████
████ Just at this turning point he met Eric Hilton at the infamous ████
████ 18th St. Lounge, ████
████ and they discussed the music they were passionate about and tried ████
████ to amalgamate ████
████ it with electronic elements, and the rest is history. ████
████ ████
████ "Singing and playing guitar on a stage, fronting a band, is the ████
████ last thing I ████
████ thought I'd be doing when I began making electronic records ████
████ fifteen years ago, ████
████ and probably the last thing Thievery audiences would expect as ████
████ well," states ████
████ Garza. "I grew up in a very white, small, rural town in Maryland, ████
████ but I also ████
████ spent a lot of time in Juarez, Mexico (his mother is from Juarez) ████
████ and spending ████
████ time in Mexico with my relatives was always kind of confusing. ████
████ For me personally ████
████ being of Mexican-American background with French, Spanish, ████
████ Arabic, Meso-American ████
████ roots. I've never known where I fit in. maybe that was the ████
████ beginning of my ████
████ personal musical odyssey, continuously searching for different ████
████ styles of music ████
████ that resonated within." ████
████ ████
████ In the end this may seem to be a more reckless endeavor for ████
████ Garza, but it also ████
████ may prove to be the most rewarding. ████
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