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Defined Perception has become one of Southern Illinois' favorite regional touring acts in the two years they have been a group.
Fans in the band's hometown of Carbondale, IL have been dancing the night away at crowded performances at local venues such as, Hangar 9, Booby's Beer Garden, PK's, and Tres Hombres.
On the road, DP (Defined Perception) has been putting down the miles, performing at this years' Wakarusa Music Festival as well as traveling to St. Louis, Chicago, Iowa City, Black River Falls, Wisconsin, and Eureka Springs, Arkansas to name a few recent 'perceptions'.
DP has shared bills with other Midwestern acts such as Cornmeal, The Station, and Madahoochi. Last year the guys donated their skills at Toco Music Festival (Lesterville, MO, 8 Sept. 2006) and Rockfest (Carbondale, IL, 16 Oct. 2006) to raise money for charitable causes. In late January DP won the Waka Winter Classic Talent Showcase (Carbondale, IL, 31 Jan. 2007) earning them a spot at the well-known Wakarusa Music Festival in Lawrence, Kansas. More recently DP played a benefit for Community Radio 91.1 WDBX. All door proceeds went to the station (Carbondale, IL, 27 July 2007).
DP (Defined Perception) has also performed at eight festivals at the largest music venue in Southern Illinois, The Shawnee Natural Amphitheater; sharing headlining spots with acts such as Vince Herman of Leftover Salmon, Billy Nershi of String Cheese Incident, and Otiel Burbridge, of The Allman Brothers Band. During a particular night DP headlined performing Pink Floyd's entire album Animals before playing a full set of originals. The show was set to a spectacular display of lasers and intelligent lights by iLevel Visual Effects. Before many of the Cave events DP was invited to play live acoustic sets in the studio of WDBX 91.1 FM to promote the festival. The band will return to the Cave for another laser show in early October.
The quartet draws from a variety of genres such as rock, funk, newgrass, reggae, Latin, techno, and jazz to create their fusion of music. Along with their extremely well written and complex original material, DP uses the diversity of its member's individual styles to explode into a frenzy of improvisational grooves comprised of screaming guitar solos, raging organ, pianos and synths, block rockin' beats and funk/punk driven bass.
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