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ARTIST: The Flying Skulls TITLE: Abducted! Vol 1 LABEL: Lowpro Lounge Recordings CAT-NO: LPL10 FORMAT: Digital Single RELEASE DATE: 09/29/09 COVER ART BY: Ian Hill |
WEBSITES: http://theflyingskulls.com http://myspace.com/theflyingskulls.com |
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Album Art: A custom piece created especially for this series, SF local Ian Hill's dark imagination seeps directly onto canvas. (titled: Flying Skull). http://ianhillart.com Abducted! Volume 1 Tracklisting: 01) Skulls & Angels feat. Audio Angel - BBQ Chicken Dub Remix (Feat. J.Tonal, Snareface, Jerome & Forney) 02) Bacon (Cyril Noir Remix) 03) Trig (Ribotto Remix) 04) Skulls & Angels feat. Audio Angel (Ribotto Remix) 05) Skeleton Talk - feat. Steve Weisz (Jason Short & J.Rogers Remix) 06) Funky Skulls feat. Jerome Forney (Bender Remix) 07) Money (Alien Archetype Remix) BBQ Chicken Dub appears courtesy of yo mama Be sure to look for Abducted! Vol 2 on Daly City Records.  The Flying Skulls Bio: Check your radar good citizens, that blip you see fast approaching is none other than The Flying Skulls, a nu-school production team that plays live improvisational dub-step, breaks, and electro! The group brings the future-soundz of the modern dance music studio and interpolates them through the filter of live improv. With an old school jazz ethos The Skulls combine their tightly-honed electronic and hiphop infused sonic orchestra in a most dirty and crunked-out way. The Flying Skulls first started melting dance floors in April 2008. Originally the brainchild of Lowpro Lounge co-founders Jeff Wareham (J.Tonal) as a way to bring the precision of the recording studio to the dance floor. J.Tonal had been creating music and throwing events in the SF Bay Area for over 7 years, sharing billing with musicians such as DJ Shadow, DJ Krush, Shpongle, Ott, Jack Dangers from Meat Beat Manifesto, and UFO! Straight dope on these Flying Skulls guys? They're dirty. Dirty beats, dirty grimy low-end, mucked up distorted synthesizers, live syncopated beats flipping between 4/4, 3/4, and 7/8 time. The Skulls distill these elements through their battle-tested mix interface into dancefloor-rending sets of huge beats with a cinematic depth meant for the very largest of soundsystems. Chromekids recently described their sound as, "A heavyweight collection of nasty synths, wobbly basslines and crunked out glitchy beats so dirty you'd swear they robbed their MPC players off a crack dealer." Press: Album Review / Canary @ Pirate Cat Radio 8:34 am The Flying Skulls / Take Flight / 1320 Records  J.Tonal of the Flying Skulls did a little set on my show and passed their newest release on to Pirate Cat Radio. I'm so hyped on it, I'm reviewing it the very next day. These guys produce some of the best deep bass party grime, but somehow manage to stay sophisticated and hold the listener's attention for more than 5 minutes. Raw, but never hard on the ears, each of the three djs of The Flying Skulls brings their own flavor, making the overall sound a tricked out blend of crunk, dubstep and breaks. They collaborate with some of best bay area musicians and have recently opened for Kode9. I know you electronic DJs at Pirate Cat are gonna love this one!Best Tracks: 1. Skeleton Talk (Blip Switch Mix) 3. Modicum Maxime Instrumental (Lotus Mix) 5. Money (Album Mix) 6. The Dope Trade For Fans of: Lowpro Lounge, Flying Lotus, 16 Bit, Filastine, Lazer Sword, Joker, Megasoid - - - - - - - The Flying Skulls on the iPhone's Tap Tap Revenge The Flying Skulls to have a song featured on an upcoming version of the iPhone's hit game Tap Tap Revenge. The game will use the Skulls and Angels Deconstruxion off of The Flying Skulls album Take Flight! By Feb of '09, Tap Tap Revenge was the number one App download from the iTunes store, and by April was on one out of every three iPhones (34%). - - - - - - - Club Crack EP review Wednesday, 3 June 2009 Hot To Death  West Coast digital Hip-hop mutants The Flying Skulls have hit us up with a few rocks of their Club Crack remix bootlegs that are almost as disturbing as they are dope as f**k.To be honest I'd be kinda scared to drop the Spank Rock sampling Club Killer remix out in an actual club, in case it did inspire literal dancefloor murderations, whilst Welsh rhymer Mudmowth is having a 'Circus In The Cemetery' and 'Carnival On Your Carcass' with his classic Skullcrackology track getting the full filth treatment from the The Flying Skulls. The death analogies don't stop there either as the ghost of Aaliyah haunts the live jam remix of Rock The Boat, probably what The Ferryman has cranked up loud on his MP3 player if he's still shipping souls to Hades. These tracks are essentially mash ups with the beats to be found on their forthcoming album Take Flight, which isn't actually all death and doom, although it is certainly a killer. We'll tell you more about that twisted beauty nearer the time, although if you download the zip files to retrieve all three tracks then there's a press release preview for your perusal. - - - - - - - The Flying Skulls on Schakkerhart.com "I love their deep basslines, they do real sophisticated, hypnotic soundtrack type of music. Complex dubstep, if you like. Deep, dark, still funky 'drink some whiskey at night' stuff." - SCHAKKERHART / Germany - - - - - - - The Flying Skulls: Lift Off! reviewed on ChromeKids  "Many an old skool Techno producer tried to install a Jazz ethos to the world of computer technology, I’m not convinced any of them truly managed it although I’m sure there are those who would gladly prove me wrong on this. People have found it hard to equate the rigid world of technology with that freestyle spirit, but Flying Skulls certainly help to bridge that gap. For me they might well be the kings of improvisational beat bashing and the two live sets we’ve put up on the blog have been testament to that. It makes sense then that they should release an album of tracks gathered from their live performances. A heavyweight collection of nasty synths, wobbly basslines and crunked out glitchy beats so dirty you'd swear they robbed their MPC players off a crack dealer. J Tonal, Snareface and Jerome Forney are joined by Ribotto and rapper Zap Tap, this is Flying Skulls in their element, and whether or not you could class it as strictly a live album, this album is most definitely live."- - - - - - - The Flying Skulls live set at The Freakerz Ball reviewed by the SC Metro Times "San Francisco electronica quartet the Flying Skulls were dropping bass-wobbling dubstep and glitchy breakbeats as part of the 13th annual Freaker's Ball. While gorgeous girls in short skirts and tall stilts attempted to stay upright on the dance floor, the four goggle-sporting (performers) unleashed a sinful set of seamless grooves that rattled windows and wiggled asses from one end of the club to the other. Pure bass-wasted fun, these guys earned a permanent spot on the M_z radar and drove away any remaining doubt that Cypress has become the best spot in Santa Cruz to hear true (nu-school) talent." -Curtis Cartier, Santa Cruz Metro Times - - - - - - - The Flying Skulls set from ArtNowSF/Juxtapoz's VeniVidiVici party on ChromeKids "We haven't yet finished jamming the last incredible live set they gave us (one of the most played mixes of last year) when the Flying Skulls do it once again with a set recorded at the Juxtapoz Magazine / ArtNowSF Party at VeniVidiVici in San Francisco earlier this month. We're gutted we missed this one with a line up which included Fantan Mojah and Ninja Ford live, Nosaj Thing, Gaslamp Killer and Egyptian Lover amongst many others, and if this Mutant Electro Crunk set is any marker of the night's quality it was a damned good one." - - - - - - - Quotables: "I'd put out that record!" – Mochipet "With a name like that, they’ve GOT to be good." – The SF Bay Guardian "Melodiously mesmerizing and explosive beats... innovative arsenal of dynamic drums and live precision." -Chris Clark "The Kings of improvisational beat-bashing…" – ChromeKids "Your music makes me feel like I was slathered up in baby oil and trying to ride a greased pony. It's dirty, and I know funk because I'm from the South." -Erin from Mississippi "Yall blew my mind at Kellys last night, I had no idea. Look forward to seeing yall again soon." - David Peitz "Yo! I got mad RESPECT for what you and your friends are doing. Straight killing it and destroying folks. Much love!" Jerrell James Suelto |
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