Artist: Single Cell Orchestra: mp3 download Genre(s): Easy Listening Discography: Single Cell Orchestra Year: 1996 Tracks: 10 Single Cell Orchestra's Miguel Fierro is a extremity of the prolific San Francisco Bay Area experimental electronic residential district, which has produced artists such as Spacetime Continuum, Heavenly Music Corporation, Ambient Temple of Imagination, Jon Williams, and Charles Uzzell-Edwards. Working in all styles of electronica -- from the more straight-ahead society paraphernalia of his Zoe Magick work to the outward-bound ambient-electro of his Reflective releases and the mid-tempo head music of his 1996 Asphodel debut -- Fierro approaches each with a stress on rhythm, texture, and atmosphere. The son of a idle words drummer, Fierro grew up listing to post-bop and '70s jazz greats such as Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis, and began devising tracks after playing about with a friend's low-budget keyboard. After experimenting with a few bands (both electronic and differently), Fierro decided to go it solo, divine by his DJ comrade to try his hand at freestyle and house music production. Fierro released his first tracks through West Coast dance staple Zoe Magick, with his "Convey Liberation" (from the "Liberated EP") becoming an tube classical and prefiguring the styles of lazy, instrumental "trip-hop" later popularized by the Mo'Wax, Wall of Sound, and Cup of Tea labels. From there, Fierro coupled up with Jonah Sharp's Reflective label, which released his "Angelic Science" EP in 1994 and the uncut sci-fi electro opera, Dead Vent 7, the next year. His self-titled debut full-length for the Asphodel relief, released in 1996, returned to the fond breakbeat expressive style of "Convey Liberation" (included on the album), as well as house and a more minimum trade name of environmental ambient. Fierro's to the highest degree tardy make for is a collaboration with Daum Bentley of Freaky Chakra, a full-on electro overdrive recorded subsequently a series of alive improv gigs which stone pitfall the two in a "Vs." scenario. |