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Xylen Roberts

"Nothing Is True. Everything is Permitted."-H.I.S.

About Me

I make music. It sounds like a lot of different things. I don’t believe in genres, because genres only exist to pigeonhole people into marketable categories to produce self-replicating static images. There is no ’self’---everything in the universe is the same, and every random thing stems from that same universal source. THat said, I embrace the unexpected in my music, allowing influence to come from everywhere. THe sound varies not only from album to album, but often from song to song as well. I’ve been playing piano and singing since I was 13. I then took up percussion and sound manipulation in high school, and in the last year or two, have been incorporating programming and sampling into my mix. LIVE I am currently a one-man band consisting of all-of-the-above. Unsigned---I press my own releases onto CDRS and sell them at shows and, if asked by intersted parties, online. My albums are recorded onto computer programs and 4-tracks. Available titles are currently: "Itzamentals’ (2007), "What Animals May Come" (2006), "Which Way To Wizardry?" (2005), "Evaporation" (2005), and ’Confusion Hath Paul Reiser Its Masterpiece" (2003). To obtain any of these titles, please feel free to message me.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/10/2005
Band Members: Chris Robertson (keyboards, piano, vocals, programming, sampling, percussion)
Influences: everything...nothing...
Sounds Like: your guess is as good as mine
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

"Itzamentals" coming soon

Itzamentals is a 7 track mini-album of (you guessed it) instrumentals. Clocking in at 40-45 minutes, it would be considered an album to some. Not to me, considering most of my albums run 65-80 minues ...
Posted by Xylen Roberts on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:16:00 PST

MY COMPLETE ALBUMS AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE! ZIPPITY DO DA!

Several of my albums are available for download at http://www.esnips.com/profile/aa6d14cc-12ae-4771-b12f-7dc2f0 9cf3ee Click on this link and down below it will show a folder for each seperate album. C...
Posted by Xylen Roberts on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:28:00 PST

rough cut of "What Animals May Come" avaialble now/catalog overview

"What Animals May Come", 2006: 10 tracks of uncategorizable electro-somethingorother that mixes nutty spoken word seques, world folk sampling, chimney sweep synths (whatever the fudge that m...
Posted by Xylen Roberts on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 08:58:00 PST

excerpt from a Couches on Fire review of my show with J. Marinelli, Privates, & Acid Police

"Playing last wasn't necessarily on Xylen Roberts agenda for last night, but he took up the opportunity like a seasoned vet, calmly and humbly. Also choosing to expose the bar area to his erratic styl...
Posted by Xylen Roberts on Mon, 10 Apr 2006 09:39:00 PST