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VENUS OCEAN

About Me

Venus Ocean was launched in 1986 by Vincent Mantia as a glamour photography project creating catalogs and calendars much to the inspiration of the legendary Elmer Batters. A transformation appended Venus Ocean into more special effects photography (see slide shows below) and eventually specializing in CD packages for clients (samples seen at the website). In addition to special photography and graphic art design Vincent now also utilizes Venus Ocean Enterprises to produce the "Mantiace musical projects" >>>
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Member Since: 23/04/2008
Band Website: venusocean.com
Band Members: VINCENT MANTIA : keyboards, acoustic and electric guitars, bass, Moog taurus pedals, electronic drums, percussion, tenor and soprano saxophones, Theremin, special effects, tapes and loops. With special thanks to DOMENIC GULINO : synthesized drums on "Pleasures Of Chrome".


Influences:


Great music from many genres has been an enormous influence. The 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's progressive rock, classical, lounge, jazz-fusion, big band, electronic, musique concrete, soundtracks, psychedelia, ethnic, Theremin ... ahh and PARIS ...
~ ALL YOU TOUCH AND ALL YOU SEE IS ALL YOUR LIFE WILL EVER BE ~ (PF)

Sounds Like: MANTIACE®

Record Label: Venus Oceanâ„¢
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Seek and you shall find!

This philosophy needs no further explanation.... the time is NOW,  just do it!
Posted by on Sun, 15 Mar 2009 10:48:00 GMT

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Posted by on Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:42:00 GMT

Inspirational FORREST J ACKERMAN and BETTIE PAGE

This was a sad week for me losing Uncle Forry and Bettie Page. Both have been such inspirations for me growing up in the 50's. We also lost Maila Nurmi (Vampira) earlier this year! We lost many greats...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:19:00 GMT

Mort Garsons Zodiac Cosmic Sounds

From 1967, the very first rock-format album to ever feature the 'moog synthesizer'... click on the album cover/link for a look at some pertinent information about the album, good write-ups and where ...
Posted by on Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:37:00 GMT