Beat the Grid is an electronic music duo based out of Ithaca, NY. We are influenced by Brazilian, African, Jazz, and Soul music. The group sound lies somewhere off the grid, where wind energy and solar power fueled creativity and helped to keep this planet as well as the next one beautiful.
organic samples with live electronics, acoustic instruments, and vocals.
often the grid is echoed in nature; you can hear it by stepping outside.
these vibrations are in your environment: someone talking on a cellphone sitting next to a tree, automotive transport machines that pass over spacious water bodies where below sea creatures tolerate the racket as they are swept by the sea's current, a bird's wing mimicked by a much larger spacecraft, city grids and computer chips set in front of a background where mother nature used to be.
New Album: BEAT THE GRID [2009]
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"Armed with their laptops and a lot of soul, Beat The Grid shines as one of the hottest duos in Ithaca...an indefinable sonic sensation that's on its way to...an ever-exciting future."
-Cake Zine
