The Octopus Project

The Octopus Project

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 strange devices) and analog equipment (including guitars and live drums). Its music is entirely instrumental.

On April 30, 2006, the band played the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. They were offered the opportunity after a fan, unbeknownest 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".

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

Discography

Albums

• Identification Parade (2002)
• One Ten Hundred Thousand Million (2005)
• Hello, Avalanche! (October 9th, 2007)

Splits, remixes 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)

See also

• Music of Austin

References

• Hart, Jeremy (2003). "The Eight Creeping Tentacles of Death of...The Octopus Project!". Issue 6. Space City Rock. Retrieved 2007-03-19. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

External links

• The Octopus Project (official site)
• Template:MySpace
• The Octopus Project[1] (interview with thepaperbagwriter)