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Rubber Band Banjo - Synthetic Biology (FB009)

by Fringe Biology Recordings

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kevinm Strange. Experimental. Interesting. Listen for yourselves! Favorite track: Chase Scene Through DNA Wormholes.
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The fifth full-length Rubber Band Banjo album, Synthetic Biology, is a soundtrack to a synthetic biology film in outer space. This album travels through sci-fi jazz, avant rock, electronic soundscapes, krautrock, ambient textures, and nightmare industrial collages. Synthetic Biology purposely juxtaposes natural sounds that travel through the air with more artificial sounds that are captured with contact mics that travel as vibrations through objects. Since the scientific field of synthetic biology involves the artificial introduction of DNA into a host organism to program cells for a particular function, this album illustrates the competition between these natural and artificial elements. The following musical instruments are used on this album: Kaossilator, Mandala percussion, 3-stringed zither, Buddha Machine, Kaoss Pad 2, MIDI instruments, sampler, electronic drums, and natural recordings. The artwork includes colorful stills from this imaginary synthetic biology film. Synthetic Biology will be released worldwide on Fringe Biology Recordings in May 2010.

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released April 16, 2010

"...sounds like a more spaced out version of Fuck Buttons...the inclusion of the homemade three-stringed synthesizers add to the unique vision and sound of Synthetic Biology."
-Pennyblackmusic.co.uk

"Chase Scene Through DNA Wormholes" with its driving rhythm and technological bleeps is more Krautrock in construct."
-www.leicesterbangs.co.uk

"The entire concept behind this project is rather complex and pretty crazy, but the composition deserves a special mention for its originality in ambient progressive music!"
-Side Line music magazine

"Album highlights include 'Terraforming Planet DIY Bio,' which has a great rippling rhythm and clever synths, while 'Self-Assembling Virus Spaceship' is a kind of mutated ambient jazz stroll - my favourite cut. Album closer 'Human Engineered Pathogen' is a ten minute Orb-esque romp through synth themes and samples. A different kind of listen..."
-Terrascope (2/3 of the way down the page)

"Fellow travellers, here on the bridge of the star-ship Re-Enterprise, the star log says "It's cyber, genre-defying, playfully groovy shit... but not as we know it - ye canna change the laws o' Rubber Band Banjo."
-AllGigsUK

Synthetic Biology artwork featured on iGEM!

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Fringe Biology Recordings Seattle, Washington

Fringe Biology Recordings is a Seattle-based record label of outsider recording artists specializing in experimental rock, avant electronic music, sci-fi soundtracks, krautrock, and science-inspired music. Our primary instrument is the recording studio, we practice DIY aesthestics, and we may or may not know how to play our instruments the “correct” way. ... more

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