Richie Londres

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Richie Londres
Born London, England
Genres Alternative metal, heavy metal latin, hip hop drum and bass, Seastep, Dubstep
Occupations Musician, songwriter, record producer
Instruments Guitar/Drums/Vocals
Years active 2005–present
Associated acts Sol Invicto, Cultura Londres, Cypress Hill, Deftones, Sikth, DJ Muggs, The Black Eyed Peas, Eric Bobo, Sid Wilson, Stephen Carpenter, Asking Alexandria
Website http://alteredbeats.co.uk

Richie Londres, (born in London, England) is an English musician, hip hop record producer, lead guitarist and multi-instrumentalist and runs Altered Beats Records. Londres has worked with Deftones and Cypress Hill on various projects. Londres is active in two bands, as a founding member of and producing Sol Invicto and Cultura Londres as well as remixing for various artists he is published by Universal Records. He is the forefather of the Seastep movement (genre). His musical influences cited are Portishead, Pantera, Iron Monkey, Primus, Otis Redding, Company Flow and Meshuggah. Production influences cited are Timbaland, El-P, DJ Muggs, Madlib & Scorn.

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[edit] Sol Invicto

Londres formed Sol Invicto with Stephen Carpenter of the Deftones and Eric Bobo of Cypress Hill alongside fellow producer AJ Cookson. The sound is described as cinematic electronic music combined with metal. Stephen does guitars alongside Eric Bobo Correa of Cypress Hill on percussion and Dan Foord Sikth on drums. Londres takes care of production and vocals duties alongside AJ Cookson. They have completed a 7 track EP called Initium with Zach Hill of the band Hella, the cover features SuicideGirls Gogo Blackwater. The release date for the debut album (As Above So Below) is set for 2011. The group have officially remixed Deftones & Asking Alexandria and are set to release 2 follow up EP's before the album hits the shelves.

Londres recently commented on the project in an interview with "Dose Of Metal"

"We are working on 2 follow up EP's, which are effectively Initium II and III. I would like to get those out to fans over the next 8 weeks. The tracks on the 3 EP's were originally going to be an album, but since it was recorded over different periods of time and with different drummers it didn't have the feel of an album, by breaking them up into EP's it gives us more freedom to experiment with the sound and build our audience organically, each EP has a different guest drummer with the core members always being myself, Stephen, AJ and Eric. We will record the debut album this year, it was just a case of finding a few clear weeks were we can all get together and record a body of music in one hit."

[edit] Cultura Londres

Founded by Londres in 2004 with MC Tiago and Eric Bobo of Cypress Hill, Cultura Londres has been through many musical and line up changes since its conception. 2011 will bring the debut album In a recent interview (December 2010) Londres stated "I want to debut the true sound of Cultura, much more in tune with my roots as a musician and producer. I've always been into the heavier, darker side of music, its always been in my heart. I tried all kinds of sounds for Cultura Londres and I've ended up back where I started. Its a journey I think you have to make as an artist to truly know why you do what you do"

[edit] Production

Londres works with established and underground artists, mainly producing from his studio complex in London, England. He is also known to work extensively with artists in Los Angeles such as Sid Wilson (Slipknot), TheKeenOne, Deftones, Cypress Hill and others. He is know to use combinations of Logic, Ableton alongside vintage analog hardware mixed with live sampling to create his sounds.

[edit] Discography

[edit] With Cultura Londres

  • "Tiago" (4 track industry sampler) 2004 Altered Beats
  • "Todo" (Debut EP) 2007 Altered Beats
  • "Escape Inglaterra" (EP) 2009, Altered Beats
  • "Radio Bootlegs Volume 1" 2011 Altered Beats

[edit] With Sol Invicto

  • "Unidose" (Single) 2008, Altered Beats
  • "Carrion" (Single) 2008 Altered Beats
  • "Initium" (Debut EP) 2011 Altered Beats
  • "Initium II" (EP) 2012 Altered Beats

[edit] With Necro Deathmort

  • Return To Planet Atlas (Vocals/FX) (2009, Distraction Records.)

[edit] With Eric Bobo

  • Fiesta (Meeting Of The Minds, 2008, Writer/Producer (Nacional Records)
  • Todo (Meeting Of The Minds, 2008, Writer/Producer (Nacional Records)
  • Maestro (Ritmo Machine, 2011, Engineer (Nacional Records)

[edit] With Universal

  • Real Freestyle (La Pasion, 2009, Producer (Universal CHAP347A)
  • Ignite The Night (La Pasion, 2009, Producer (Universal CHAP347A)
  • Progressions (La Pasion, 2009, Producer (Universal CHAP347A)

[edit] Remixes

  • Legal Drug Addict (Richie Londres Remix) Sid Wilson & thekeenone
  • "Diamond Eyes - Deftones" (Sol Invicto Remix) 2010 Warner/Altered Beats
  • "You've Seen The Butcher - Deftones" (Sol Invicto Remix) 2010 Warner/Altered Beats
  • "Morte Et Dabo - Asking Alexandria" (Sol Invicto Remix) 2011 Sumerian Records
  • "Lesson Never Learned - Asking Alexandria" (Sol Invicto Remix) 2011 Sumerian Records

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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