This last year has been an expansive one for Lotus. After acting as a premiere late-night band for summer festival’s like Camp Bisco and Rothbury, they have continued to produce the fast-paced and fauxtrotted steez on stage that we can’t help but shake our rumps too. Transitioning nicely into their fusion sound from a strictly organic Rock/Funk sound, a new-but polished-style has emerged adding elements of Jam/Electronica/Jazz.
“Planting the holographic seeds of an LP with stunning potential and the detectable pliability of major advancements to come, they tended to each new addition with careful attention and precision, the initial, introductory phase of the innumerable performances time will eventually put into motion.” – Greg Gargiulo Jambase on the 9/24/08 Mercury Lounge show in NYC
The current Winter 2009 tour is a continuation of their 2008 Hammerstrike Tour, which helped make their newest album- Hammerstrike(Oct. 08′)-a definite success.
Some would argue that no band working today can produce a better blend of head-shaking instrumental pull and knee-knocking electronic sound than Lotus has year after year. The energetic and enthused crowd of fans at any sold out show on their seemingly never-ending tour feeds off of the band’s own encouraging spirit and stamina. And it doesn’t hurt that they don’t leave home for tour without the notorious overhanging light rig-their own slimmed down version of Daft Punk’s light pyramid. What would a fan’s memory of a Lotus gig be without the eye-popping rhythmic light show?
The Spring conclusion to the tour includes a first time performance at Lupo’s in Providence, two night stand Higher Ground in Burlington, VT and another two night banger at the “intimate” Bowery Ballroom in New York City to finish it off in April. Grab some advanced tickets and bust out your 3D-glasses and camera phones once again for Lotus as they finish off this tour on the east coast.
-Richard (Ranch) Guerra
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Lotus Winter Tour Dates:
February 13 – Recher Theatre, Towson, MD
February 14 – Recher Theatre, Towson, MD
February 15 – The Lantern Blacksburg, Blacksburg, VA
February 17 – V Club, Huntington, WV
February 18 – THE DAME, Lexington, KY
February 19 – Minglewood Hall, Memphis, TN
February 20 – The Valarium, Knoxville, TN
February 21 – Masquerade – Heaven Room, Atlanta, GA
March 6 – Langerado Music Festival, Miami, FL
March 24 – Toad’s Place, New Haven, CT
March 25 – Lupo’s Heartbreak Hotel, Providence, RI
March 26 – Port City Music Hall, Portland, ME
March 27 – Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
March 28 – Higher Ground, Burlington, VT
March 31 – Vogue Theatre, Indianapolis, IN
April 1 – The Crofoot, Pontiac, MI
April 2 – The Canopy Club, Urbana, IL
April 3 – Majestic Theatre, Madison, WI
April 4 – Vic Theatre, Chicago, IL
April 5 – The Intersection, Grand Rapids, IL
April 7 – Tralf Music Hall, Buffalo, NY
April 8 – The Westcott Theater, Syracuse, NY
April 9 – The Chameleon, Lancaster, PA
April 10 – Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
April 11 – Bowery Ballroom, New York, NY
Rage [reyj] –verb raged, rag⋅ing (used without object) :
1. The phrase: “Don’t Stop til you Get Enough” applied continuously over an extended period of time.
2. Dead-head’s/Bisco-head’s/Tribe-head’s/Electro Kneebanger’s/Trance Seizure Shaker’s/Wookies’ lifestyles
3. LOSTNSOUND
Hey beantown, crewskers, tribe-heads, I gota delicious musical present for ya. Sorry I couldn’t be there guys….I Hope this finds you in time for the after party. I would highly suggest throwing down on this dank ass BB303 Ambient/Dub/Electronic mix for done for human touch. Especially late night on my old Dell speakers in the bar room. In case you didn’t hear the news already, these guys should start some real shows, fuck shitty live PA’s! Have fun, be safe, and do a little less than I would&!*@
Right Click to Download – HumanTouch ambient_bb303_mix_1
“The Human Touch Booking Agency
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 6:04pm
We are a newly formed booking agency specializing in electronic dance and ambient music. PsyTrance, Progressive, Techno, Electro, Minimal, Breaks and Ambient.
Co-Directed by Simon Baring (formerly of Twisted Records, Minimal Mayhem, Glade Festival, Nano Records) and Balazs Verebes of Ozora Festival, this agency has pulled together some of the top names in the european dance circuits under one convenient roof. If you are a promoter or know a promoter and you’d like to see one of our artists in your country then please come to us and we’ll be happy to provide you with some top quality music.
We will custom make prices and lineups to fit your parties. Our agency is designed to look out for our artists and also for the promoters. We don’t want to make people go bust and we know that the lives of the promoter and the artist are in hard times. We want to build a sustainable relationship between artists, agents and promoters that will keep the parties happening in their many forms for years to come.
We have only TOP quality artists on our label. No favours to friends, only those people that we really believe are up there with ‘la creme de la creme’.
We are looking to use our Human Touch to create good vibes throughout our dance communities. Trance LIVE acts:
Tristan
Prometheus
Juno Reactor
Laughing Buddha
Fearsome Engine
Man With No Name
Koxbox
Blue Planet Corporation
Total Eclipse
Flip FLop
Dickster
AMD
Allaby
Earthling
Trance DJ Sets
Jez (laughing buddha)
Edoardo (Neurobiotic)
FrankE (Koxbox)
DIck Trevor (Nano)
Hopi (Dragonfly/Nano)
Celli (Earthling)
Hamish (Alchemy Records)
Crispy (FlipFLop)
Oleg
Gergo
Tsubi
SimonB
Techno/Electro/TechHouse
Evan Marc (LIVE)
James Monro (LIVE & DJ)
Tongue & Groove (LIVE & DJ)
Josko aka Giorgio Gatti (DJ)
SimonB (LIVE & DJ)
Edoardo (Microbiotic)
Benji Vaughan (DJ) (Younger Brother)
Celli (LIVE & DJ)
Allaby (DJ)
Youth (DJ)
Hamish (DJ)
Dick Trevor (DJ)
Greg Hunter (DJ)
Ambient/Dub/Electronic
Ott (LIVE&DJ)
Pitch Black (LIVE)
BlueTech (LIVE)
Greg Hunter (LIVE/DJ)
Third Ear (LIVE)
Youth (DJ)
Benji Vaughan (Younger Brother DJ)
SimonB (DJ)
Josko aka Giorgio Gatti (DJ)
International Observer (LIVE/DJ)
Lucid Sound (LIVE)
BB303 (LIVE)”
Spending TIme with Poster Boy in the NYC Subway system. This guy is tight! and hes got a buncha vids on Youtube…Im sure we’ve all seen his work around town.
G. Love and Special Sauce
Matisyahu
Les Claypool
JJ Grey and MOFRO
The New Mastersounds (2 sets)
New Monsoon (2 sets)
Ganga Giri
Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue
Dusty Rhodes and the River Band
This announcement adds to the previously announced lineup:
Yonder Mountain String Band (2 big sets!)
STS9 (2 big sets!)
Galactic (late night set)
Buckethead (late night set)
Sly & Robbie
Railroad Earth (2 sets)
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Digable Planets
Porter, Batiste & Stoltz (2 sets)
Steve Kimock & Crazy Engine
Perpetual Groove (2 sets)
Split Lip Rayfield (2 sets)
Lucero
The Egg
20/20 Soundsystem
Jimmy Herring Band
Cornmeal (2 sets)
EOTO
BoomBox
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey
Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit
Secret Chiefs 3
Joe Purdy
Dirtfoot (2 sets)
Pretty Lights
Big Smith (2 sets)
Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad
Ott
Heavyweight Dub Champion
DJ Rekha
Underground Orchestra
Moonalice
My Dear Disco
Blue Mountain
Truckstop Honeymoon
Elephant Revival
Burnin’ Smyrnans
Euforquestra
Hana Pestle
Tickets are onsale now at www.wakarusa.com. RV sites are already sold out!
Get ready for a great weekend in the Ozarks!
As we reported last month, the 6th annual Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival will take place June 4 – 7 at Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, Arkansas.
This band plays out of Brooklyn, some local NYC shows coming up btw. Might be an fun act to see in the City.
“Sensi Samuri” (live on BBC radio 1)
“Froggy Style”
chilled out dubstep “Day n Nite”
www.myspace.com/widdlemethis
Live recording of EC playing along side the Sir McCartney and the boys. Clapton offers up a few teazers early in the song then comes in on point with his solo tweaking sounds to perfection.
Another jam off the new album “Immolate Yourself”. Tragic to lose such a talented artist. Glad we got to seem them in person at one time or another.
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