NASHVILLE |FROM: ALEXANDRA GREENBERG 818-380-0400 X223 / agreenberg@msopr.com
DEEPSKY TO RELEASE ‘IN SILICO’ ON FEBRUARY 5
U.S. ELECTRONIC DUO TO RELEASE THEIR
FIRST FULL-LENGTH ALBUM FOR KINETIC RECORDS
On February 5, 2002, Kinetic Records will release IN SILICO, the debut full-length album from American electronic composing duo DEEPSKY. For almost 10 years, DEEPSKY (J. SCOTT GIAQUINTA and JASON BLUM) have produced world-class music that has rocked dance floors and stunned armchair listeners alike. The all-original material on the album is testament to that with its driving rhythms, keyboard passages and tricked-out melodies, many based IN SILICO–essentially, “in the silicon”–with over 90% of the music created in the digital realm using virtual instruments.
The album’s highlights include: the first single “Jareth’s Church,” a beat-based track titled for a friend named Church and his son Jareth in their home town of Albuquerque, New Mexico; the opening “View From A Stairway,” where they incorporate Spanish classical guitar playing into their sonic landscape; the fiery “Smile,” which features the voice of Saffron from the U.K. group Republica, marking the group’s first time working with a live vocalist; “Mansion World,” aDEEPSKY rework of the single by the Elijah Blue-fronted band Deadsy; and “Three Sheets To The Wind,” on which label mate Dave Ralph lends his production hand.
From their first commercial release “In My Mind” (which landed on Nick Warren’s Cream Live 2) to their follow-up single “Tempest,” (which served as the theme song for MTV’s seminal electronica video program “Amp” and also appeared on Warren’s Live In Prague) to their international hit “Stargazer,” DEEPSKY have established themselves as one of America’s most sought after progressive production duos. In 1998 DEEPSKY paired with Sandra Collins to produce “Red” and “Ode to Our,” two hard-hitting tracks that created considerable international buzz and quickly found their way into the record boxes of progressive luminaries like DRC and John Digweed. The following year they released “Cosmic Dancer,” featuring vocals by world music major Jai Uttal; Mixmag UK ranked it the fourth best trance track of the year (an updated version of the song appears on IN SILICO). DEEPSKY‘s remixes of Carl Cox’s “Phuture 2000,” Kaistar’s “Promethean Groove,” Energy 52’s “CafŽ Del Mar” and numerous others continue to be peak after-hour favorites around the world.
Even outside the studio, DEEPSKY have been torchbearers in American progressive electronic music. Their live performances are at the very core of the grassroots following they have been building in America for the past five years. The many die-hard fans that travel hundreds of miles to catch a show are testimony to the cult status DEEPSKY shows are attaining with dance music aficionados around the North American continent. Few live performances of progressive dance music offer the same intense presence and raw energy as a DEEPSKY show, reminiscent to those of the early days of Underworld or The Crystal Method. A supporting national tour for IN SILICO is expected in February and March.
DEEPSKY will be debuting tracks from their new album with live performances at Spundae in San Francisco December 7 and Los Angeles December 8.
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