Bobby Collins aka Spaceflight Orchestra has been a musician for most of his life. At the pre-pubescent age of 10 he found an old Melbay guitar in his stepdad's basement and thus his musical foundation was founded with the first dissonant strum. 8 years later he picked up an old electric bass. 3 years after that he began taking piano lessons. 5 years passed and he bought a sitar and began lessons under an A-list sitarist and Bollywood film composer from India. 3 months after that he purchased his first set of turntables. 2 years later he bought a theremin and decided to stop purchasing any new musical instruments for awhile. The last six years have found him spending many a lonely night locked in his room practicing on his turntables and producing various tracks for his own amusement. He also spent much of that time working at a post-production studio in his hometown of Denver. It was here that he honed his compositional skills while writing music and jingles for commercials, documentaries, short films and corporate videos. For a while he enjoyed making children's music for adults with his band The Bobby Collins Death Metal Armada. He headed up the band and played guitar, synths, vocoder and theremin, but his interest in DJing and producing got the best of him.SFO went from a few tracks recorded in Bobby's living room to signing with Black Bridge Records in 2,008. SFO's first release was the track, "Mellotronic" on Pangea's 'Natural Selection' compilation. SFO appeared alongside such national artists as Bassnectar, Michael Kang of SCI, Cosmic Rocker of Infla Granti, DJ Harry and many more. The release had articles and reviews in Billboard, XLR8R, Igloo as well as at Properlychilled.com where they proclaimed "Mellotronic" a downtempo classic. This year SFO licensed 2 tracks, "You" and "The Inner Smile" for the soundtrack of the upcoming indie film, "Suburban". SFO then remixed Cosmic Rocker's "Hubert Von Filter" for the "Action Breaks remix EP". The remix caught the attention of J-Boogie who charted it for his 2,008 Summer top twenty. It was pretty unexpected to suddenly be listed in the company of heavyweights like Sly And The Family Stone, Quincy Jones, Erykah Badu, Common, Missy Elliot and John Legend. The remix also made it into LA Gallery HVW8's "Live at the BBQ" mix shortly thereafter. In January 2,009 SFO released it's first album, "An Orchestra Of One". The album will cover a wide range of sonic territory and will feature remix work by J-Boogie, Quincy Jointz and many more. Spaceflight Orchestra has recently introduced live sets with the album, "An Orchestra Of One" and other SFO tracks being recreated from the ground up using turntables, keys, effects processors and theremin. The live sets have taken SFO's lush, sonorous sound even further with the addition of new elements. Much more to come in the not too distant future. For booking and licensing inquiries please e-mail
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