Disasterpeace

Music:

Member Since: 3/1/2005
Band Website: dprocks.com
Band Members: Rich Vreeland
Influences: Video Games, Life, Boredom, Strive for Greatness, Crappy Music, Contrast with Friends, God, Songs that make you go WOW, the list goes on and on. as far as musical acts are concerned: George Winston, Steve Reich, Robert Fripp, Radiohead, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, ChimpSpanner, Metroid Metal, Sigur Ros, Yes, King Crimson, Gustav Holst, 8bit bEtty, Mastodon, Tool, Metroid Metal / Stemage, Oceansize, Tortoise, Kary, Sufjan Stevens, The Mars Volta, Thrice, ISIS, Mew, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Dungen, etc.
Sounds Like: DESTRUCTOID
"Somewhere between electronica and great 8-bit soundtracks lies Disasterpeace, an experimental arrangement band possesed by the haunting sounds of gameboy sound cards and everything good that came out of Kurzweil in the 80's."

The Justice . Brandeis University
"Berklee student Rich Vreeland, the first to take the stage that night, played 45 minutes of electronica under the moniker Disasterpeace. He played a heavy, effects-laden electric guitar accompanied by other electric sounds courtesy of his Macbook. His ability to keep time and never lose track of the bizarre time signature of his songs was impressive, especially since it was his debut performance. The crowd seemed duly impressed with his guitar-playing skills, but the effects-drenched pieces made it unclear what and how much he was actually playing."

Infinite Game Music
"I'm not just listening to music, I'm being taken on some kind of fantastic adventure courtesy of Disasterpeace. I think his approach to chiptune composition is refreshing and unique." - TrueStar

Gamewave Podcast
"Some people might not be able to take that (Level - Eight) kind of assault of the ears. it might break people down to tears. it might kill people." - Joe Allen and Mike Cook

Stemage / Metroid Metal
"NOTHING. NOTHING sounds like this."

"Your blazing a new trail in the world of music. Your command of this new music form, that you have created, is God given. Not everyone can tell stories within the music, not everyone can captivate and hold interest like you have. Today's youth only listen to what the words tell them. May you open the eyes of many."

"As soon as the intro surfaced with a repetition of a small bit of waves and sounds to create the short piece that opens everything up...i was immediately in awe...it just kept building and building until everything became this large array and atmosphere 8-bit music that gave me this uncontrollable feeling where i couldn't do anything else but VIBE...very profound and amazing work indeed! and very intelligent at that..."

"Aw dude, the harmonies, the changes, the form, all of it. it throws all this random stuff at you and your ear is like, "buh??" but the way you handle the flow of the song makes it sound normal and familiar and it buries itself deep in the memory. then, as if that wasn't enough of an accomplishment, it turns into variations and just destroys the brain. it's freaking genius."

"I imagine your music as cubist figure painting. There's beauty in the shapes and lines and abstract forms, but when you look closer for the patterns, the whole thing comes alive and you see things that are even better."

Record Label: II
Type of Label: Indie