LOS ANGELES, CA - Arts organization Create:Fixate presents a night of “Transformation” on Saturday, March 8, 2008 at its new “find” in downtown LA. LOT 613/Premiere Events Center is located at 613 Imperial Street (Los Angeles, CA 90021) and was first used by Create:Fixate a few months ago during its six-year anniversary celebration in December. The new downtown Los Angeles venue just opened in late 2007. The March event will take over an additional second warehouse space to present an expanded night of visual and aural excitement. The evening begins with a preview of the exhibit from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. There is a suggested donation of $5.00 per person for the preview portion and parents are encouraged to bring the whole family where the Kids Kreativity Zone will be overflowing with recycled art supplies. The full-blown event runs from 7:00 p.m. - 2:00 a.m. Admission is $15.00. All ages are welcome. For more information please call 310-590-7199 or visit www.createfixate.com.
The reDiscover Center based in Mar Vista, CA, is a non-profit community resource center who will be on hand to host a one-hour art class starting at 5:00 p.m. in the Kids Kreativity Zone. reDiscover promotes creativity in early childhood and elementary education while encouraging environmental responsibility (http://www.rediscovercenter.org). During the 4:00 – 7:00 preview period Create:Fixate creates this place where youth can dive into their own expression while parents explore the evening’s exhibit. Kids twelve-years old and younger are allowed free entry before 7 o’clock.
“Transformation in art is the alteration of a thought resulting from the uptake and expression of new ideas,” says Create:Fixate producer Andre Freimann. “These ideas are alterations resulting from an introduction to a different way of seeing or by contact among creative minds. It is the goal of Create:Fixate to capture the essence of artists transforming ideas into a new way of thinking.” The theme of CreateFixate’s one-night-only March event takes this meaning literally as carefully selected artists will explore the topics of transformation in relation to human consciousness, energy, technology, creative expression, and transformation of our living environment. The art featured will explore the theme on many levels and demonstrate the three definitions of Transformation, a: change in form, appearance, nature, structure, and character, b: The act or an instance of transforming, c: the state of being transformed. We hope the audience will experience the latter.
Over 40 artists will be featured in March’s event. Some of the highlighted artists of the evening include Jamie Burmeister, a kinetic artist from Nebraska, exhibiting work for the first time on the west coast, works with sculpture, installation, mechanics, and more - each piece fusing elements of humor, absurdity and the mundane. Detroit-born Overton Loyd, known for his work with George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic, works in various styles including loose pen and ink drawings, cartoon illustrations and mixed media paintings. He’ll be one of the featured “live painters” of the night. Danny Hughes’ paintings connect heart and soul to the core of being, suspending the viewer in a kind of timeless, captivating resonance. Vietnamese-born, Thinh Nguyen paints internal landscapes without a paintbrush that depict moments of isolation, loneliness, and emptiness submerged under a sea of emotions. Bekka Teerlink creates surreal scenes with juxtapositions of natural and man-made elements as well as animals, people, and time periods. Heavily inspired by music and poetry, her paintings hold an innocent haunting quality while portraying weighty contemporary themes.
This exhibit will also feature the artwork of emerging artists who participated in “8 Sundays,” the high school emerging artist program that took place last spring. Create:Fixate collaborated with Vox Box Arts Collective on this eight-session program designed to enhance students' creative expression and business skills preparing them for a career in the arts. The program culminated in two art shows at the Center for the Arts in Eagle Rock and the Craft and Folk Art Museum.
Create:Fixate is happy to announce its collaboration with c3: Center for Conscious Creativity. C3 will present Bill Scott’s “BrainPainT LIVE!” - demonstrated with an original performance by composer Winter Lazerus and METASPHERE in what they call an “Animeditation on the Altered State of Heart” co-created by visual artist James Guy and composer Brian Thomas Lambert.
The musical component of the evening, dubbed ‘Audio Lab’ is as rich as the visual tapestry. Live performances include Forsforo, a punky/reggae/world band who have managed to create a unique and striking sound representing the global culture that permeates from Fosforo's hometown of Los Angeles. And don’t miss David Alvarado's LAST gig in LA before the DJ/producer moves to Texas. The eclectic musical delights continue with Leslie and the Badgers, a bourgeois country band reminiscent of Patsy Cline and Emmylou Harris as well as Neko Case and even Wilco. And an extra added bonus to the night: Marques Wyatt, international DJ/producer of the silkiest sounds will grace the decks.
Create:Fixate is dedicated to showcasing the work of emerging and mid-career artists in a unique environment. Usually, every two months, Create:Fixate founder Michelle Berc curates, produces and hosts these stunning group art shows that present creative people from around the globe with an emphasis on the local talent of Los Angeles. The production team includes producer Andre Friemann and music coordinator Andrea Giardina. Awe-inspiring painters, photographers, sculptors, and multi-media artists exhibit alongside an equally impressive array of Los Angeles' finest DJs and musicians. Each event's aural artists are poised to create a soundtrack for the night that transforms this from a simple 'art show' into the city's most anticipated Art Event.
PHFE Management Solutions (PHFE) helps to provide a comprehensive administrative and fiscal structure for Create:Fixate’s nonprofit division. PHFE Management Solutions, also known as Public Health Foundation Enterprises, is a 37-year-old 501(c)3 nonprofit organization providing back office support and management services to other nonprofit organizations.
In addition to the exhibition, Create:Fixate will host a handful of nonprofit organizations whose missions address transformation of many current issues that are relevant to our times:
The Center for Conscious Creativity (c3) –
The Center for Conscious Creativity (c3) is dedicated to inspiring emergent consciousness through the exploration and synergy of creativity, technology, media, the arts, philosophy, consciousness research, the sciences, and future studies.
http://www.consciouscreativity.com
Giveback –
Inspiration. Action. Change.
Giveback is you and your community inspiring and empowering each other to create positive world change. It’s a free and open dialog on world events in which you decide the issues. It’s a growing group of people who believe that community, understanding, and working together are the keys to a better future. The Giveback network empowers each and every person to participate in local, national, and global efforts to create tangible real world change.
http://www.giveback.net
NextAid –
Using the Beats of our Generation to Provide Hope for the Next
NextAid represents the electronic music community in a sustainable response to the AIDS orphan pandemic. Through the creation of initiatives involving music and technology, NextAid provides an opportunity for people to truly make a difference in the lives of African children.
http://www.nextaid.org
The Vanishing of the Bees –
A work-in-progress documentary, The Vanishing of the Bees takes a piercing investigative look at the economic, political and spiritual implications of the worldwide disappearance of the honeybee, a mysterious ecological tragedy that could topple our food chain and forever change our way of life. The film seeks to raise awareness about this crucial issue and inform the audience about the ancient and sacred connection between man and the honey bee. The Vanishing of the Bees unfolds as a dramatic tale of science and mystery, illuminating this extraordinary crisis and its greater meaning about the relationship between humankind and mother earth. The bees have a message, but will we listen? The making of the film depends on your tax-deductible donations.
www.vanishingbees.com
The Rainforest Action Network –
The Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global marketplace through education, grassroots organizing, and non-violent direct action.
http://www.ran.org
The artists being showcased at Create:Fixate's “Transformation” event on Saturday, March 8, 2008 are listed below:
Bekka Teerlink
Bekka Teerlink’s art is a contemplation of humankind’s mark on the earth, as well as an exploration of what our future holds. She creates surreal scenes with juxtapositions of natural and man-made elements as well as animals, people, and time periods. Heavily inspired by music and poetry, her paintings hold an innocent haunting quality while portraying weighty contemporary themes. Now living in Los Angeles, Bekka spent her childhood living in various cities such as Salt Lake City, Boston, and Jerusalem. She studied painting and creative writing at Brandeis University and also participated in Yale University’s Summer School of Art & Music at Norfolk.
Brady Redman
Brady Redman was born in 1973 in the Los Angeles metropolitan jigsaw puzzle. He began creating art when he was very young. When asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he would reply, “a triceratops.” Since this was technically impossible, he decided to be an artist. He grew to create many works dealing with the narrative, as stories were a huge influence on him.
His work is focused on the narrative of erosion, of oxidation, and transformation of places, stories, and odd characters that serve as heroes. He uses many types of media: everything from clay to plaster, foam, paint, dirt, rocks, sticks, as well as found objects. The presence of humor, and/or absurdity is an important part of each piece. He is interested in telling stories to the viewer, of creating clues in order to piece together a story.
Redman’s art has been deeply inspired by his travels around the world, as well as living abroad in South America.
Danny Hughes
Observing a personal principle of authenticity as his artistic constant, Danny Hughes throws open the floodgates to the boundless possibilities of expression that his work allows. Danny Hughes’ paintings reveal a daring talent and an intimate raw expression as they entice and excite, inviting the viewer to experience an unleashing of spirit. The power of his work transcends craft or technique. Each painting connects heart and soul to the core of being, suspending the viewer in a kind of timeless, captivating resonance.
Dayvid Iannaci
Los Angeles native Dayvid Iannaci has spent the last fifteen years as a local creative in the advertising industry with an emphasis on interactive innovation and photography. For years he has maintained a large online following in the digital fine art community of which he has recently begun bringing to life in the form of offline installations on a limited basis. His influence often tends towards a bit of the organic and a touch of the mechanical with liberal amounts of light, color and electrical current. Dayvid currently lives in the historic core of downtown LA and absolutely loves his life as an artist.
Dustin Otterbach
Dustin Otterbach is a native of Southern California. The fifth of six children, he credits his parents’ own work ethics, creativity and a stable upbringing with providing him the sense of freedom to express himself. Otterbach discovered he had a natural affinity for painting on scrap metal, allowing its natural texture to guide his colorful stories and intricate tonalities. Otterbach has owned and operated two successful art galleries in Laguna Beach and currently works out of his studio and workshop in Venice.
Diana Grappasonno
Although she was interested in art from a very young age, Diana Grappasonno received her BS degree in Biology. She went on to work at a crime lab where she processed evidence for biological fluids and developed latent prints. After almost five years of working in Criminalistics, she sold her house, quit her job, and began pursuing her artwork full-time. Although she explores a multitude of themes in her work (environmentalism, myths/stories, politics, pop culture), the influence of science is evident in many of her acrylic and mixed media paintings, most of which focus on animals or women as their subject matter. With her animal pieces, she is exploring an appreciation for biodiversity and examining human-animal relationships. Her figurative pieces, on the other hand, are more autobiographical. In line with her rebellious nature, she employs the use of found paper, tissue paper, stencils, felt, and glitter glue in addition to more traditional artist materials.
Gina Stepaniuk
Gina Stepaniuk was born and educated in Canada before moving to Los Angeles where for the past several years she has lived and painted. She has exhibited in several galleries throughout California and has acted as a major supporter of the arts through her board work with the Los Angeles Art Association.
Lisa Melandri, the Deputy Director for Exhibitions at Santa Monica Museum of Art calls Stepaniuk’s art “ecstatic.” And continues, “Her landscapes quiver and vibrate, giving plain air compositions a charged metaphorical quality.”
Jamie Burmeister
Jamie Burmeister is a kinetic artist who currently lives, works and teaches in Omaha, Nebraska. Through experiments with sculpture, installation, mechanics, electronics, computers, the Internet, interactivity, sound and video, Burmeister has put together a diverse body of work that revolves around his conscious experience of the world. All of his pieces have elements of humor, absurdity and the mundane. Many of the pieces are interactive, creating situations where the viewer becomes a part of the piece. The experience of the work is unique depending upon how the viewers choose to interact with it. Burmeister has exhibited widely throughout the Midwest. Create:Fixate’s “Transformation” will be his first exhibition on the west coast.
Kristen Eppley
Kristen Eppley grew up in North Carolina, and studied art at the University of Salamanca in Spain before
receiving her BA in Studio Art from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. Eppley's rich oil
paintings represent the female journey - how women fluctuate and transform between realms, races, generations, and spirits. She now lives and works as an artist and musician in Venice Beach, CA.
Linley Eathorne
Linley Eathorne, the New Zealand-born digital artist, moved to Los Angeles from Scotland in 2000. Her bold metaphysical abstracts are about transformation - the drive to connect and ultimately break the chains that bind. There is a sense of the microcosm, the tiniest particles taking form, always changing and looking to evolve. She starts either with her photographs and "paints" them on the computer until they say what she means or she sometimes starts with a blank screen. Her distinctive work has been seen at the Abbot Kinney Art Gallery in Venice, ArtHouse Gallery in Santa Monica, and 1-5 Gallery in downtown Los Angeles. She was invited to show her work at the '07 Florence Biennale.
Lost Cause Society
Manisha Patel
Manisha Patel is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute, and a San Francisco Bay area painter. In her work, repetition, color and patterns become a language for re-imagining a personal history.
Each painting is tied to a specific memory of events, clothes, colors, feelings, people and experiences. The colors are part of the story, the blue of a bedroom wall or the orange of frustration. The repetitive marking of the dots becomes a process of remembering. The dots move like memories, forward and back through time. They trace physical and mental paths creating an energetic pulse of rhythm.
Megan Geer-Alsop
Having grown up in the Topanga Canyon Mountains near Malibu amongst a family of actors and musicians, Megan Geer-Alsop found her artistic niche as a visual artist. Her eclectic, multimedia approach to art has directed her focus towards her latest series of “light boxes” in which she finds discarded objects and with stained glass, transforms them into ambient light sculptures.
Overton Loyd
Known as the "Art Philanthropist," Detroit-born Overton Loyd has toured throughout the U.S. and abroad with the renowned funk/rock band George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic designing multi-media stage shows, costumes, album covers, websites, and animated videos. He won Billboard magazine’s "Best Use Of Computer Graphics" award, for the ground breaking music video “Atomic Dog.” He was also the featured artist for the television show “Win Lose or Draw.”
Loyd works in various styles including loose pen and ink drawings, cartoon illustrations and mixed media paintings. His paintings reside in private collections worldwide.
Patrick Hammerlein
Patrick Haemmerlein is compiling a database of digital imagery to simulate the urban experience. Originally from Kinderhook, NY, Haemmerlein found his way to Los Angeles in 2000. What started with obsessive photographic cataloguing of the city gradually moved into graphic design, he began to be influenced by the native urban art forms of graffiti and tagging. His work captures the urban idealism of imperfect beauty, and while replicating the chaos and assaultive commotion of city life, reminding us to stop and appreciate the grotesque, yet endearing details that make city living so appealing.
Paul Torres
Naturally gifted with a keen observation of everyday life, Paul Torres’ new high low-brow contemporary rococo style takes aim at the cultural, social, religious and sensory flavors and underpinnings of Americana and society. He aims at a dark but humorous, wry form of magic realism. Torres' work is delicious and dripping, difficult to look at yet wondrous in its treatment of form and flesh. It is at once an eyes wide open exploration of our violent nature and yet us imbued with a forgiving earnestness. His work employs old master styles using oil, mixed media, acrylic, and dry and wet ink on canvas and panel. Born in Chile and immigrating to the United States as a teenager, Torres was heavily influenced by Westerns and American horror flicks. He attended Otis Parsons, and Art Center.
Sanam Salek
Sanam Salek is a Los Angeles based artist whose style dramatically strays from convention. While double majoring in mathematics and art at UC Santa Barbara, Salek used mathematics to further develop her own distinctive medium: nails on wood. In turn, her art becomes a formulaic language centered on concepts of pattern, structure, and space to produce a melodic form of shadow and movement. In working with these rigid, durable objects, Salek aims to deconstruct our preconceived dialect of beauty and transform the human body in all its fragility to that of the stronger realm. Seeking inspiration from Egon Schiele, Salek entices the viewer to cross personal boundaries into this anti-classical methodology where comfort is not an option.
Shannon Keller
Shannon Keller is an LA-based artist whose works primarily with pencil, focusing on line, detail and form. Her work reinvents body hysteria by blurring the line between the human, animal and the mechanical to create a closed system of unsettling beauty and rich detail. Often eliminating background and focusing entirely on the finest details, her subjects have little or no context, they occupy no known territories. This grants Keller’s work access to focus on the sublime and the visceral. She holds a BFA in Drawing from Pratt Institute and an MFA in New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute.
Thinh Nguyen
Born in 1984, Thinh Nguyen spent most of his childhood in Vietnam. He and his family immigrated to America when he was eleven. In California, his interests in art began to flourish during his high school years. He continued with his passion and earned a BA in art education and a BFA from California State University, Fullerton. Nguyen paints in acrylic exclusively and without using brushes. He is influenced by the beauty and simplicity of nature. Rather than imitating nature, he paints internal landscapes that depict moments of isolation, loneliness, and emptiness submerged under a sea of emotions.
Will Koffman
Will Koffman is a 19-year-old artist from Orange County, California who works in fine art and illustration. He is known for experimental techniques and artwork obsessively packed with images within images. His work on display in Create:Fixate is in a variety of media. Drawing on black fabric with bleach creates the distinctive woodcut-like aesthetic of his large graphic pieces. This work goes hand in hand with traditional media like oil painting and pen and ink. Koffman’s work can be found in gallery spaces in Orange County, as well as in print media, from children’s book to the pages of Weird Tales Magazine.
Walt Hall
Walt Hall was born and raised in North East Los Angeles. Although an active artist from a very young age, he cut his creative teeth in the world of commercial art restoration rather than the traditional art school. Until 2000 his main focus was music and a series of local punk bands that he formed with friends. Since that time he has returned his creative focus to the visual arts.
Although painting is his first and foremost creative method, Hall also employs a wide variety of surfaces, forms, objects, mixed media, and enjoys collecting discarded materials for assemblage work. He paints in oil as well as acrylics and produces work that ranges in size from several square inches to mural sized works on unstretched canvas. Walt Hall currently lives and works in the San Fernando Valley.
Live Body Painting~
Justine Serebrin
The live body painting performances of Justine Serebrin engage and inspire audiences as well as participants. Serebrin’s body designs accentuate and amplify the strength, individuality, and beauty that each person radiates. Her performance is unique and spontaneous, drawing upon the surrounding environment to influence the colors, lines and shapes that emerge over the form of the human canvas. Serebrin’s designs are fresh and boldly original, taking body painting to a new and exciting level of creative entertainment and inspiration.
Video Installation~
Ira Eduardovna
Ira Eduardovna's videos dissemble and recreate a vague childhood memory into a mature interpretation. Her works are auto portraits that combine autobiographical stories and subjective rational and emotional interpretations of the global reality. Most of the videos are influenced by her immigration experience from the Soviet Union, where she was born and raised, to Israel where she lived until her recent relocation to America.
Marianne Magne
Borrowing from biological mechanisms Marianne Magne's work articulates itself organically throughout multiple media. Her drawings and photographs undergo digital mutations to become an intuitive ontology of the species, an inventory of modified life forms. Her recent video installations have been presented at the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery and the Santa Ana Art Center. Born in Paris, she lives and works in Los Angeles.
James Guy
James Guy is a graphic designer and art director by profession. However, of much more interest to him is his avocations in life. As teacher, inventor, author, metaphysicist, and certainly as artist, he found greater pleasure in having discovered the design of consciousness. A design he says is discoverable by anyone. It is “what is” reflected all around us and in us as a septenary structure he calls “metasphere.” Guy published this discovery in 1980. In 2000 he began re-expressing the paradigm beyond word and in every art media that lent itself to the elegance of the thesis. The art communicates with “symbol” allowing the viewer to call forth his or her own understanding. Most recently he presented in such venues at the Philosophical Research Society. His interest in hermeticarts, sacred symbols, and sacred geometries of ancient mystics in diverse traditions, all figure into his realization and art. He compares the importance of metasphere to the discovery of visual perspective in the early Renaissance. However, this new perspective uses the “I” of consciousness not the “eye” of sight. His trilogy of works include "Metasphere, The Altered State of Word” (137 pages) published to print 1980 and to the web and to CD-rom in 2000. "Metasphere, The Altered State of Heart” a DVD published in 2007; and ongoing "Metasphere, The Altered State of Art” in metal sculpture, animeditation, giclee, and other fine art for the collector, gallery and museum.
Fashion /Jewelry~
Brooke Benson Designs
Brooke Benson is an emerging designer working and living in Venice, CA. After graduating from UCLA with a degree in Theater her creativity began to extend to other art forms. Her jewelry designs are inspired by her extensive travels from Southeast Asia, Nepal to the Middle East. There is a distinct style that is captured in the designs, revealing a uniquely raw, but refined style. Using spiritual symbols, gold, wood and semi-precious stones, her pieces are created to ignite the divine creative energy within each of us and enhance our awareness to the beauty that lies within. Each one of these energetic adornments carries a special essence that is felt by all who wear it. Recently written up in "Daily Candy" her creations, “blend the earthy with the ethereal.”
Mystra
Mystra’s fragrant shamanistic body oils and sprays are created to evoke powerful transformations in your life. Shaman Durek Verret creates oils and sprays with a specific experience in mind. For example, “Beloved” = “Self Love, Harmony & Inner Peace.” The ancient power of the Shaman’s intention combined with the natural energy of the herbs and aroma work to clear stagnant energy and propel the body, mind and spirit forward into new manifestations.
KarmaKulture by Trace Palmer
After winning a green card in the lottery, Trace Palmer immigrated to the United States in 1996 from Belfast, Ireland. While living in Eugene, Oregon, she was inspired by the art of glass blowing. Palmer began experimenting with the glass medium to create her own self-taught style. She combines original glass jewels with designed necklaces crafted with materials such as suede, leather and sterling silver. Her KarmaKulture line also includes enchanting rings and earrings. Palmer’s unique organic, glass jewels are her interpretation of the ultimate beauty in nature. She feels the watery, flowing plant-like designs express the great mystical energy in the universe, man's connection to the earth and the oneness of all things. Her designs can be seen worn by Sharon Stone in "Cold Creek Manor" and Lisa Kudrow in "Friends." Audio Lab~
OSS Animal Medicine Jewelry
OSS (pronounced Auss) means bone in French. About five years ago, Maryam Henein stepped into a crosswalk and got hit by an SUV. She broke many bones. Bones hold the stories of our lives. They are sacred artifacts. The journalist and documentary filmmaker strongly believes in animal spirits and animal medicine. Wearing a bone, or a fossil or a horn is not to be taken lightly; it must be done with respect and understanding for each piece holds the particular healing energy and symbolism of the animal being honored, says the former Montrealer. She asks the animal for permission and incorporates ceremonial meditation into the process of creation. Her jewelry combines beauty with gratitude and respect.
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Fosforo
Combining their love of dancehall, drum ‘n’ bass, dub, and synthpop with their passion for serious songwriting, Forsforo has managed to create a unique and striking sound. Rafi, on lead vocals, sings in English, Spanish, Hebrew, and Arabic, representing the global culture that permeates Fosforo's home town of LA. To really understand the Fosforo experience you must see them live, where they use an intricate setup of samplers, synths, pedals, and effects to create live jungle, dubbed out madness, and lengthy explorations of sound - www.fosforo.net <http://www.fosforo.net> ; www.myspace.com/fosforo.
DJ Mr.cocoon (Innerspaceouterspace)
mr.cocoon AKA David Cabrera has been DJing and VJing mostly for the underground Art and Club scene in LA since the late ‘90s. As a CalArts graduate, he feels most at home providing an eclectic and creative mix of audio delights for the young, creative and open minded - www.innerspaceouterspace.com.
John Von
John von Seggern is a futurist, producer, sound designer and DJ. He performs live experimental techno and ambient music and runs net-label Vibration. He also works for German music software company Native Instruments and has been a collaborator and music technology consultant for numerous composers and producers in the LA area including Herbie Hancock, Thomas Newman, Dweezil Zappa, Steve Tavaglione, Judd Miller, Paul Haslinger, John Beasley, and David Lawrence. He recently did sound design for the forthcoming Pixar film WALL.E. He has performed his unique blend of techno-electro-jazz at countless clubs, festivals and events in Asia and the US, often with some incarnation of his band Digital Cutup Lounge (www.myspace.com/johnvon23 <http://www.myspace.com/johnvon23> ) - www.vibrationinstitutemusic.com
www.digitalcutuplounge.com
Yeh Dede
Yeh Dede is women's world music fusion dedicated to making the world smaller and more understood one song at a time. Yeh Dede's mix of Afro-Latin percussion with sultry and sometimes sensual voices, "nurtures their listeners global conscious and instills in them an overwhelming urge to put their body to the dance." - www.myspace.com/yehdede.
Leslie and the Badgers
Leslie and the Badgers’ brand of bourgeois country has recently garnered spins on KCRW and Chris Morris' "Watusi Rodeo" on Los Angeles' Indie 103.1. Continuing the traditions pioneered by artists such as Patsy Cline and Emmylou Harris and continued by artists such as Neko Case and even Wilco, the Badgers' songs are penned by songwriter/frontwoman Leslie Stevens. Leslie and the Badgers recently shot a scene that will appear in the critically acclaimed FX's series "The Riches" with Minnie Driver and Eddie Izzard this spring - www.myspace.com/leslieandthebadgers.
Wiseacre
Born into the lovely environs of suburban lands lying to the east of Los Angeles, and raised on canned food, meat and the religious right, Eric Tucker, aka Wiseacre, currently finds himself happily free and equally inspired by it all. Based in the seaside republic of Venice, Wiseacre, along with his “dj wife” Mr. Caparro, throw a Thursday night party known as Funky-In-The-Middle. Recently he has also joined forces with the new Custom Hotel in order to throw "Sundaze" - a weekly Sunday afternoon poolside affair.
Marques Wyatt
International DJ and producer Marques Wyatt is an influential messenger of the deepest, most soulful kind of house music. Beneath his relaxed, therein lies a man partially responsible for giving birth to the West Coast house scene by bringing the fresh sounds of New York (a la Frankie Knuckles, Tony Humphries and Larry Levan) to Los Angeles beginning in the mid ‘80s. Carefully pointing out that he has, "always had a deep passion for music," you know that his adoration of house has been a gateway into the lives of thousands and thousands of people. Over the years promoting and playing an enormous amount of parties including BBC, Brass, MAC's Garage, Does Your Mama Know? and currently LA's biggest house club DEEP, Wyatt has changed the face of Southern California nightclubbing and the presentation of its music, sound and scene.
Today, he spends much of his time taking the sounds that emanate from his soul around the world, or laying them down in the studio in remixes and original compositions. Yet, he always returns to the club scene in his hometown of Los Angeles. He grew up in a loving, musical family that exposed him to everything from unique Afro rhythm sounds, jazz and soul to psychedelic rock. As a DJ he draws on a little bit of all these influences in silky smooth sets that never fail to be a buoyant celebration of life.
Drumcell (Droid)
Co-founder of Droid Behavior, Drumcell has been one of techno's greatest allies in Southern California in recent times. Over the last 5 years Drumcell has rocked parties on a weekly basis in LA, released trax on labels Omniscient, Remains, Heavy Industries, and his own DROID Recordings imprint. When performing, Drumcell can be seen blurring the lines between a live and a DJ set by utilizing tools such as FX processors , samplers, drum machines and other devices to weave a thick blend of acidic techno and aggressive but funky minimalist groove to ensure a frenzy amongst his listeners - http://www.mypsace.com/drumcell <http://www.mypsace.com/drumcell> ; www.droidbehavior.com.
AquaVee (MissDreamedia, Hale, CF)
Andrea Giardina aka DJ AquaVee has been DJing since 1992. After inspirations by such LA clubs at Flammable Liquid and Sunday Love, her passion for house music grew. Many know her from her BeatNonStop records days, where she was a music buyer from Oct. 1999 - 2002. Giardina has been the Music Coordinator for Create:Fixate since day one. Nowadays you can hear her spinning what some might call "Deep Tech," a combination of house and techno. A dash of electro and a splash of good vibrations, AquaVee always surprises - www.myspace.com/missdreamedia.
Jubal
Jubal has been digging for downtempo’d wax for five years. His music selection revolves around creating loungy and sultry downbeat vibes. Spinning is a vital means of expression for Jubal - it's the way he channels his energy and emotions outward. Jubal currently holds a weekly Tuesday night residency at Halie Lounge in Pasadena. You can also catch him providing atmospheric beats at various lounges and art openings around LA - www.reclinelounge.com.
David Alvarado
David Alvarado's house history started in the early '80s, evolving from DJ to producer. The Los Angeles native has recorded for labels such as Definitive, Yoshi Toshi, Strictly Rhythm, Plastic City, Ovum, NRK, his own label, Bomb Records and many more. Alvarado's relationship with Windsor's Definitive/Plus 8 camp lead to a relationship with Toronto-based Stickmen. Alvarado worked with Stickmen on several tracks, putting his producing career in full motion. Alvarado has made a name for himself through his productions and his constant global touring as a DJ - www.davidalvarado.com.
DJ Gone (Planet Earth)
Gone studied at the Realschule, Karlstadt in 1994, the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria and the University of Prague. At first, he intended to specialize in physics and mathematics, but soon he became fascinated with sound and electricity. He began his career as an electrical engineer with a telephone company in Budapest in 1991. It was there, as Gone was walking with a friend through the city park that the elusive solution to the rotating magnetic field flashed through his mind as a sound concept. Whether insane, eccentric, or simply bumbling, Gone is often working with fictional technology in order to forward his schemes. He rarely talks and if he does, his words are always these: static, auto ignition, telephone, alternating current power, generation and transmission, radio and television - http://www.myspace.com/wellgone.
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For more information or to interview Create:Fixate founder, Michelle Berc please contact Green Galactic’s Lynn Hasty at 213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com
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