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FOR OPTIMAL SONIC REPRODUCTION & MAXIMUM LISTENING PLEASURE, DOWNLOAD AND PLAY ON YOUR FAVORITE HIGH FIDELITY SYSTEMS Playable on both stereo and mono phonographs------Blurring lines between indie electronica, avant, psych, & krautrock, hip-hop pastiche, cyclic funk minimalism, even classical and beat jazz textures and tonalities- Flipover Stylus is all and none of these things. "The only genre that should matter in the long run is what happens in your head when you create" says Brian Marzullo, the project's brain. "We build and reinforce barriers that shouldn't exist for informed musicians with open ears. Sound doesn't need walls or ceilings. You need to kill your icons to find your own voice-use the spirit of what influenced you, don't just wear them on your sleeve. Let them meet in your head-the blender, the listener will sort it out. Do what you love and others will find you. Distrust movements, they're for lemmings. Change society one person at a time, we're surrounded by the aimless, stupid and hypnotized. Unfortunately fascism is alive and well in America, and usually hiding behind a dashboard Jesus."A guest with DC area bands as diverse as the Bad Brains, United Mutation, and Honky Tonk Confidential, Brian Marzullo knew it was time for his own project......Flipover Stylus was born."Who is the Louis Pasteur of rock and roll?" - Steven Metz -Almost all music with visibility seems over pasteurized lately. Perfectionism makes music less perfect, because it extracts some of your humanity. You can re-take and mainstream your sound by various methods until it's timidly radio friendly. That won't do you any favors artistically. It may make you more cash, but ultimately irrelevant in the larger picture. Be raw, make mistakes, and nurture the good ones.Ten Flipover Stylus Operating Principles and Tenets1. Sometimes appropriate error and random actions to determine compositional course. 2. Use faux synthetic applications of organic source material, and the opposite. 3. Sometimes use indeterminate choices, as opposed to compositional or improvisational. 4. Attempt displacements of context, even when seemingly incongruous. 5. Disorientation through sound can be preferable, most opportunities must be taken. 6. Don't be quick to dismiss admirable unsuccessful work of yours or others. Look for the flashes and adapt them. 7. First impulses may be correct, or simply the quickest, easiest route. Unexpected detours are often more captivating. 8. Don't dismiss your primitive or rough early attempts,ever. They may adapt to more informed , proficient later work to form a more singular vision than you currently have. 9. Ideas that come to you quickly are gifts - blueprint them as soon as possible to not lose the original thought. 10.(a) 'Unfinished' work very often should be left as is. There are intuitive end points after which you are either diffusing your vision, or compromising for the marketplace. (b) 'Rough' , working mixdowns are frequently the most direct and must be documented."If you can't play rock and you can't play jazz, you put the two together and you've really got something" - Lou Reed----This product has been animal tested.----

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Member Since: 7/23/2005
Band Website: flipoverstylus.com
Band Members: Brian Marzullo-voice, synth, sound processing, loops, sampling, drums, percussion, found objects, drum machines, electronic percussion, keyboards, alto sax, metal and glass washboards, shawm------------------------------------------------------- ------ Produced, composed, arranged & recorded by Brian Marzullo---------------- Mastered by Roger Seibel (Sun Ra, YMO, Tortoise) @ SAE Mastering, Phoenix, AZ. ----------Adjunct: Al Bullock-gtr. 'Solar Plexus'.
Influences: CAN, Silver Apples, Joe Meek, James Brown/The J.B's, The Meters, Fela Anikulapo Kuti, Olivier Messiaen, Tarwater, Broadcast, Nico, Albert Ayler, Public Enemy, Captain Beefheart, Arto Lindsay, Minimal Compact, Pere Ubu, Amon Duul II , Peter Ivers, Booker T. and the MG's, Pram, Paul Hudson, Feathermop, Notwist, Ennio Morricone, Cabaret Voltaire, Avalanches, The Tenant, Neu, DJ Muggs, Chic, Bent, Italian & German Roots, Kraftwerk, Embryo's 'We Keep On', Lambchop, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Collecting LP's, 45's, & 78's, Trouble Funk, Cocteau's 'Orpheus', Transglobal Underground's 'International Times', David Munrow, Bomb Squad, Gang Of 4, Lalo Schifrin, Komeda, Good Brandy & Bad Women, High Tide's 'Sea Shanties', Soft Machine (I,II,II)George Clinton/Parliament/Funkadelic, Louis Armstrong, The Deviants, 13 & God, Hamilton Bohannon, La Dusseldorf, Cicadas, Buzzcocks, Holger Czukay, David Cronenberg, Marisa Fiordaliso, Debussy's Pelleas and Melisande, Augustus Pablo, Timbaland, Dirk Bogarde, Silence, Fellini, Fats Domino, Alan Wilson, Ron Zacapa Centenario, Sly and the Family Stone, Caffeine, August Darnell, James Chance, Aterciapelados, 60's Johnny Paycheck, Slug's 'the 3 Man Themes', Treatment Strategies, Robert Quine, Caviidae Porcellus, Tom Waits, King Sunny Ade, Modern Lovers, Jaki Liebezeit, Charles-Valentin Alkan, Environmental & Appliance Sounds, Chet Baker, PainOfLoss, Dario Argento, Rodenbach Alexander, War, early Tricky, Wire, To Rococo Rot, Wim Wenders, Lali Puna, No New York, Marinated Cuttlefish, Ambitious Lovers, Marty Paich, The Barkay's 'Holy Ghost', A Tribe Called Quest, Tied and Tickled Trio, Adderall, Suicide, Marc Ribot, Mad Capsule Markets, Betrayal, Eric Dolphy, Subbulakshmi, The Search for the American Anti-Idol, Mothers of Invention/F.Z. pre '71, Michael Karoli, Brian Wilson/B.Boys, Billy Mure, Aaliyah, Blonde Redhead, Extreme Bocce, Bert Kaempfert, Perry Como, Wynn Stewart, Television, Vediog Svaor, John Cale, Roxy Music(first 5), Laika, Th' Faith Healers, John Ford, Tony Bennett, Marisa Monte, Kip Hanrahan, The Kinks, Robert Maxwell, Prince Paul , DJ Krush, Thora Birch, Jack Bruce, Roy Wood, Rufus Thomas, Ray Price, Kenyon Hopkins, Chimay, Duvel, Brew Pubs, Nicky Skopelitis, Psychotherapy, The Cramps, 28 Days Later, Chris Connor, Plastic People of the Universe, Fugazi, Hatred of the Current Political Climate and the Sanctimonious Religious Right (not a band name,but feel free...), Jawbox, Steve Reich, Oobi, Johnny Bush, Esham Smith, Magma, Skatalites, Cafe Tacuba, Societal Disconnection, Tony Perkins, John Lydon, Bing Crosby, Jeri Southern, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Chili Garlic Sauce, Marlon Brando, J.S. Bach, Caetano Veloso, Dean Martin, David Lynch, Chuck Berry, The Delgados, Ms. John Soda, Eric Satie, Cardenal Mendoza, Third Ear Band, Nicky Skopelitis, Art Blakey, Faust, Pentangle, Tupac Shakur, Zongamin, Sam 'The Man' Taylor, John Cage, Richard Thompson, Wild Magnolias, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Elmer Bernstein, Dr. John, Chopin's Mazurkas, Morphine, Swans, Brainiac, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Scarlatti, Brian Jones, John Coltrane, Kurtis Blow, Speedy West, Lou Reed, Beastie Boys, Terry Riley, Alex Chilton, Mandrake Memorial, Bee Gees(63-75), Frank Sinatra, Liquid Sky, Legs Around My Neck, Magnetic Fields, Robert Ashley, Soul Coughing, Beany and Cecil, Company Flow, Jesus and Mary Chain, George Shearing, Material's 'Memory Serves' & 'Seven Souls', Eddy Arnold, Nobukazu Takemura, The Ramones, 13th Floor Elevators, Rick Nelson, The Animals, Scott Walker, Martin Denny, Curved Air, Roman Polanski, Caravan, Stereolab, Distorted Pony, Strawbs, Nelson Riddle, Don Gibson, Bo Diddley, Elvis Presley, Del Shannon, Gene Pitney, George Jones, Roy Orbison, Floyd Tilman, Johnny Cash, The Fall, My Bloody Valentine, Iggy Pop, Chris Connelly, Carlo Buti, Spirit, PFloyd 66-72, Jade Warrior, Perotin, Jah Wobble, Throbbing Gristle, Hawkwind, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, George Russell, Don Ellis, ...continued...
Sounds Like: a soundtrack for lucid dreams.
Record Label: Flippant- available Dischord.com, Tonevendor,etc.
Type of Label: Indie