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Zentropia

"sit back, turn up the bass and space out!"

About Me

The San Francisco experimental band Zentropia travels through heavy stepping dub with frequent excursions to layers of gooey, melting ambient interludes and smatterings of drone and noise suites, classifying the listening experience as a full blown trip.Guitarist and producer Mark Bray is known for pushing the limits of modern dub mixing, seemingly distorting the very fabric of space and time by stretching melodies with the mass of an interstellar black hole.Bassist and percussionist Darcy Rowley brings things back down to earth with her stepping dub grooves. The subterranean sounds are capable of registering on seismic devices.The duo has been unleashing their twisted deep space dub sounds upon unsuspecting ears for nearly ten years. Zentropia's music is a must have for serious sonic drifters or for anyone interested in losing track of their own existence.

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Member Since: 3/3/2005
Band Website: zentropia.com
Band Members: Mark Bray ... aka Blackzen ...Beats...bass and space...Dub Master!

Influences: Scorn, Bill Laswell, Lee Scratch Perry, King Tubby, Miles Davis, Tangerine Dream, Muslimgauze, John Coltrane, Squarepusher, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Sunn 0))), Gong, DJ Spooky, Acid Mothers Temple, King Crimson, Melvins, John Zorn, YOB, Electric Wizard, Slayer, Jimi Hendrix, PJ Harvey, Sonic Youth, Dalek, Techno Animal, Godflesh, DJ Disk, Zakir Hussain, Ali Akbar Khan, Lords of Acid, Buckethead, Primus, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Sonny Sharrock, Derek Bailey
Sounds Like: “Cosmic mud galactic sludge and experiments in dub metal soundscapes…” -DJ Dean Satan

“Deep dark X-Trip-Dub. Dubbed to Death with little of Jamaica.” - Blue G, KZSU

“Imagine a radio telescope picking up a transmission of early Scorn, mid-period Laswell when he was slumbering and low-end funky, and Robert Fripp pretending to be a quasar.” - Mark Teppo, Earpollution

“The atmospheres are expanded, dreamy, nightmarish, relaxing, epic, grand, ancient, gorgeous, chaos-friendly, rapturing and intense.” - Marc Urselli-Schaerer, Chain D.L.K.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

ChainDLK review of Space Throne

Just in! A new review of Space Throne from ChainDLK.com. They are a great site that reviews tons of great experimental music. They classify Zentropia as Ambient / Electronica / Ethereal / Dub / Sounds...
Posted by Zentropia on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:26:00 PST

New Zentropia EP - 13 minutes of brain melting music

Lava Lamp Mind Farm , the new EP from Zentropia is done and posted to be heard. Check it out at Zentropia.com along with the video for Neural Particle Separator. This EP was recorded during a live pe...
Posted by Zentropia on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:42:00 PST

Neural Particle Separator Video is done!

I got the video done and it is good! Well at least I like it. Hope you enjoy.I have it posted on my page and hereI will be uploading the songs for the new EP soon.This video is for the second song ca...
Posted by Zentropia on Thu, 14 Feb 2008 03:22:00 PST

Reinstall and try again!

    Well...I finally got most everything reinstalled on my computer. It is running better than ever (for being 4 years old) and I got my 3 songs mastered. Now to finish the video and a ...
Posted by Zentropia on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:28:00 PST

LivePA set on interFACE last Thursday...new EP?

I've been talking about making some new music so, as promised I got my gear all set up and did a little LivePA set on our show last Thursday on interFACE Pirate Radio(www.pirate-rado.org). Seems to be...
Posted by Zentropia on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 10:31:00 PST

New experimental tunes

Well its not exactly new Zentropia music but I created a new personal page at myspace.com/markbray1. It is dedicated to solo experiments on whatever instrument I feel like playing at the time. Some of...
Posted by Zentropia on Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:50:00 PST

Back in the studio in 2008!

Well its 2008 and I'm back in the studio...workin on beats and makin some crazy spaced out sounds.To hold you over till I get a new one posted check I'm going to upload a few older tunes from our cata...
Posted by Zentropia on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 09:39:00 PST

New Zentropia EYE shirts!

   More new music???? Nah, we're havin' too much fun playin with t-shirts. So now heres the new Zentropia Eye T-Shirts. Available in black and ringer T.There is also a wall clock and mug so ...
Posted by Zentropia on Sun, 16 Dec 2007 07:37:00 PST

t shirts n stuff

Crystaleyezed Fine Arts, Zentropia's long time label is not setting up a Cafe Press store with tshirts and lots of other fun stuff for Zentropia, DJ Fuchsia, interFACE Pirate Radio and more.I'm ...
Posted by Zentropia on Fri, 09 Nov 2007 10:45:00 PST

New pics from the.....whoaaaa EARTHQUAKE!

Well it was only a 5.6 earthquake in San Jose but we sure felt it. It shook us a little here in SF. But back to the point....I did a live set at the California Oranges Show last Saturday on interFACE ...
Posted by Zentropia on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:35:00 PST