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About Me

We talk about the inevitable, but most people are afraid to even glance forward. Soulo levitate from a point on the horizon and land on our step. Not to say that Soulo is courageous. Soulo is inward reflective rock... unsteady.

Is it romantic to soften the hardness of a soundtrack to a break dancing video game? Is it worthwhile to enliven the new-age fugue with a surprise ending? Does science gain moral obligation when it teams up with the hopes and risks that art rolls with? Or does the art lose its sense?
Soulo's music is too discreet to be rock, too jammin' to be ambience, and too eventual to be the blues. But you could use any title from the Jimi Hendrix song book to name any given Soulo track.
SOULO ALBUMS AVAILABLE ON ITUNES!
"a cozy symbiosis between wood and wire. 8.2/10" - Pitchfork

"A beautifully brutal genre-fuck... Opening with one of the best bass and drum samples since Eric B and Rakim." - Tokion

"exquisite" - The Wire

"perfect" - Alternative Press

"its sonic breadth is what truly impresses... Their sound keeps getting bigger, and better" - XLR8R

"perfect music from a city on the edge of a state that is slowly slipping into the ocean." - The San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Soulo takes the sparkel of electronic music and applies it to brightly painted baubles meant to be carried in your pocket and astonish friends" - CMJ

"You can listen over and over to this album. You can watch weather and not be bored. You will be lulled by the washes of voices and the rising swells of sound. But there are so many quirks, so many distinctions in the songs. It is beautiful and melodic but also dissonant and blurred. It is elegiac and sentimental and even radiant but also ironic and funny and playful.
Music for monorails, locomotives, skyscrapers and satellites." - Dana Spiotta, author of Eat The Document

"Surprising bright-eyed pop" - URB

"dazzling electronic compositions" - Outburn

"It's quirky, yet makes perfect sense and totally works." - Brainwashed

"deceptive electronic deftness... relying on wit and transparent love for their sources rather than irony." - Grooves

"perfectly crafted musical psychedelia" - Cracked

"one of the acts to watch" - The Milk Factory

"sure to cure the ailment's of disaffected music fans everywhere." - Free Williamsburg

"SOULO upload the brain universe that compressed the acidHUMANIX infectious disease of a chemical=anthropoid to the biocapturism corpse feti=streaming circuit of this abolition world." - Kenji Siratori, author of Blood Electric

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 26/05/2005
Band Website: www.soulo.net
Band Members: Shawn King

Scott Benzel

Nate Flanigan
Influences: Black Flag - Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
Erik Satie - Gymnopedie I
Inga Rumpf - Silver Moon
Sandi Shaw - Your Time Is Gonna Come
Lucio Battisti - La Canzone Del Sole
Asylum Choir - Icicle Star Tree
Nuno Canavarro - 6
Bee Gees - With The Sun In My Eyes
Arthur Verocai - Sylvia
Sergio Mendes - Promise Of A Fisherman
Joyce - Baracumbara
Luna - Teenage Lightning
Marcos Valle- Mais Do Que Valsa
The Association- Darling Be Home Soon
Graham Nash - Simple Man
Lesley Duncan - Everything Changes
Peter Noone - Oh You Pretty Things
Public Nuisance - Daddy's Comin Come
Hawkwind - One Change
Posies - Coming Right Along
Moondog - Pastoral
Can - Sing Swan Song
Nick Lowe - I Love My Label
Bob Log III - Ass Computer
Ravi Shankar - Prabhujee
Blo - Chant To Mother Earth
Honeybus - Caterina
The Pretenders - I Go To Sleep
The Letter People - Mr. S
Paul "Wine" Jones - Guess I Just Fucked It All Up
The Equals - The Skies Above
Herman's Hermits - Nobody Needs To Know
Altered Images - I Could Be Happy
The Tremeloes - Me And My Life
Barbara Mason - Shackin' Up
Caetano Veloso - You Don't Know Me
Billy Bragg - The Saturday Boy
Jon Wayne - Mr. Egyptian
Nick Drake - Time Has Told Me
Harpers Bizarre - Witchi Tai To
Arthur Russell - I Couldn't Say It To Your Face
10cc - I'm Not In Love
The Hollies - Pull Down The Blind
The Millennium - Sometime Or Another
James and Bobby Purify - My Adorable One
Metro - Paris
The Venus In Furs - Tumbling Down
Wings - The Note That You Never Wrote
Bonnie Raitt - I Can't Make You Love Me
James Gang - Collage
The Troggs - Cousin Jane
The Coctails - And You Could
Portastatic - Josephine
ELO - Telephone Line
Queen - Get Down Make Love
Santana - Hope You're Feeling Better
Richie Havens -Follow
Feist - The Park
Mark Kozelek - Ruth Marie
Sebadoh - Gate To Hell
Sam Cooke - Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen
Beck - The Golden Age
Pluramon - Hintergrund
Pharoahe Monch - Trilogy
Stevie Wonder - Have A Talk With God
Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
Guided By Voices - Awful Bliss
George Harrison - Be Here Now
Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
Eels - I Need Some Sleep
DJ Shadow - Dark Days
Donny Hathaway - Jealous Guy
Timmy Thomas - The Coldest Days Of My Life
Bugskull - Recorder
Spiritualized - Spread Your Wings
Gorkys Zygotic Mynci - Face Like Summer
Handsome Family - Weightless Again
Moose - This River Will Never Run Dry
Allen Toussaint - From A Whisper To A Scream
The Microphones - Lanterns
Tujiko Noriko - White Film
King Biscuit Time - I Love You
Mercury Rev - The Dark Is Rising
U2 - 40
Squarepusher - My Sound
Super Furry Animals - (A) Touch Sensitive
Heldon II - In The Wake Of King Fripp
Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson - My Rifle, My Pony And Me
Paul McCartney - One Of These Days
Beat Happening - Indian Summer
Camera Obscura - Country Mile
The Beach Boys - Disney Girls (1957)
Patti Smith - Within You Without You
Madeleine Peyroux -A Prayer
Califone - The Orchids
Fat Mattress - Margarita
Klaus Schulze - Melange
Dawn Penn - No No No
Classical M - Such A Lovely Voice
Foreign Exchange - The Answer
Terry Callier - Promenade In Green
Lee Hazelewood and Nancy Sinatra - Some Velvet Morning
Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
Simon And Garfunkel - The Only Living Boy In New York
Bread - I Wanna Make It With You
Big Star - Thirteen
Will Oldham - West Palm Beach
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Cyndie Lauper - True Colors
Dave Matthews - Satelite
Donovan - Get Thy Bearings
Elvis Costello - Tears Before Bedtime
Fairport Convention - Percy's Song
The Floaters - Float On
Foo Fighters - Everlong (Acoustic)
Galaxie 500 - Snowstorm
Gandalf - Scarlet Ribbons
Gerry And The Pacemakers - Ferry 'Cross The Mercy
Hall And Oates - Sara Smiles
Ace Of Base - The Sign
Stereo MC's - Connected
Hausmeister - Leet
Hawkwind Zoo - Hurry On Sundown
I Am Klott - Over My Shoulder
South - Here On In
Icebreaker And Manual - Into Forever
Immortal Technique And Mos Def - Bin Laden
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
Small Factory - Pretending Its Sunny
The Jim Yoshi Pile-Up - Reckless Driving
John Lennon - Oh Yoko
Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
Kelly Clarkson - Break Away
Kraftwerk - Vom Himmel Hoch
Larry Coryell - Beautiful Woman
Link Wray - Walkin' In The Arizona Sun
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
The Manhattans - Shining Star
The Monkeys - Daydream Believer
Moondog - Pastoral
The Outfield - Your Love
Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue
Plush - Three-Quarters Blind Eyes
Richard Buckner - Ariel Ramirez
Rilo Kiley - With Arms Outstretched
Saturday Looks Good To Me - When You Got To New York
Scout Niblett - Lulluby For Scout In Ten Years
Sibylle Baier - Tonight
Smog - Chosen One
Soul Junk - Hogging All The Islands
The Stone Poneys - Different Drum
Tommy James And The Shondells - Crimson And Clover
The Rolling Stones - Moonlight Mile
Sounds Like: "Emotions, Can You Trust Them?" from Man, the Manipulator

SOULO - SOULO plug research 2001
SOULO - MAN, THE MANIPULATOR plug research 2003

Record Label: Plug Research
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NEW ALBUM, SUN VALLEY AVAILABLE JULY 7TH!!!

There it is... On July 7th, 2009 our new album "Sun Valley" will be available!!!!  Here's the track list:1.  Up Where The Clouds Come Down2.  Who's Gonna Warm The Sun?3.  Yorktown For Nine Months4.  T...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 08:52:00 GMT

"SUN VALLEY" FEATURING ART FROM MIKE KELLEY!

We're very honored to say that Mike Kelley has allowed us to use images from his "Three Valleys" series of his photographs for our upcoming "Sun Valley" record!  Mike Kelley's work has had such a huge...
Posted by on Mon, 11 May 2009 09:15:00 GMT

New Album! SUN VALLEY

Hey all,I just wanted to take a minute and let everyone know that our new album, "Sun Valley" will be available soon... Check back for more info in the very near future!
Posted by on Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:23:00 GMT

*****NEW TRACKS UPLOADED!*****

We've uploaded a few tracks from the upcoming album... Check 'em out.Shawn
Posted by on Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:21:00 GMT

*****NEW ALBUM MIXED****

We've finished our next album... Will post more info soon... after we master it.Cheers,Shawn
Posted by on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:37:00 GMT