The Octopus Project
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| The Octopus Project | |
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 The Octopus Project (Yyonne Lambert, Toto Miranda, Kevin Adickes featured)
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| Background information | |
| Origin |  Austin, Texas, USA |
| Genre(s) | Experimental Indie Pop Electronica |
| Years active | 1999–present |
| Label(s) | Peek-A-Boo Records |
| Website | Official website |
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| Josh Lambert Toto Miranda Yvonne Lambert Ryan Figg |
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The Octopus Project is an American indietronica band based in Austin, Texas. Its unique sound, blending pop and experimental elements, is a combination of digital and electronic sounds and noises (including drum machine, keyboard, synthesizers and other devices) and analog equipment (including guitars and live drums). Its music is mostly instrumental.
On April 30, 2006, the band played the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. They were offered the opportunity after a fan, unbeknownst to the band, entered them in a contest held by the festival on MySpace in which voters were to "nominate their favorite band for an open slot at the festival".[1][2]
In 2007, the Octopus Project supported underground hip-hop star Aesop Rock on his national tour.
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[edit] Members
All members are known to switch instruments live (for instance, Josh Lambert playing drums while Toto Miranda plays guitar, or Yvonne Lambert playing guitar while Josh Lambert operates the electronics), but each member can be said to play a primary instrument.
- Josh Lambert: guitar, bass, keyboards
- Toto Miranda: drums, guitar, bass
- Yvonne Lambert: samplers, keyboards, theremin, glockenspiel, guitar
- Ryan Figg: guitar, bass, keyboards
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Identification Parade (2002)
- One Ten Hundred Thousand Million (2005)
- Hello, Avalanche (October 9th, 2007)
[edit] Splits, remixes, singles and EPs
- Christmas on Mars (EP, Soda Pop Productions, 1999)
- Black Octopus Lipstick Project Foam Party (Peek-A-Boo Records, 2004)
- The House of Apples and Eyeballs (Collaboration with Black Moth Super Rainbow, Graveface Records, 2006)
- Wet Gold/Moon Boil (7" Peek-a-Boo records, 2007)
- Golden Beds (EP, Peek-A-Boo Records, 2009)
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Womack, Andrew (April 18, 2006), Coachella, MySpace & the Octopus Project, The Morning News, http://www.themorningnews.org/digest/listening/coachella_myspace_the_octopus_project.php.
- ^ Llewellyn, Kati (March 22, 2006). "The Octopus Project Tour to Coachella". Pitchfork Media. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/36083/The_Octopus_Project_Tour_to_Coachella#36083. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
- Hart, Jeremy (2003). "The Eight Creeping Tentacles of Death of...The Octopus Project!". Issue 6. Space City Rock. http://www.spacecityrock.com/issue6/octopusproject1.html. Retrieved on 2007-03-19.
[edit] External links
- The Octopus Project (official site)
- The Octopus Project at MySpace
- The Octopus Project[1] (interview with thepaperbagwriter)
- The Octopus Project interview (Josh Lambert)(at Prefix)
