listen to my CD HERE
RLR07 CD
Fluorescent Grey. Gaseous Opal Orbs
solipsistic NATION No. 78: radio interview with fluorescent grey 2/22/08
'Organic Cadence' video recording, rhythmic editing by fluorescent grey. (no overdubbing used, all original source sounds from video)
PRANKOGRAPHY -
2007 - I took the first official Cycling 74 max/msp lecture in San fracnisco. To my surprise the instructor claimed he was giving 'private tech support' to sean booth of autechre for some of Autechre's max/msp patches. Later that day the teacher passed around a USB thumb drive with instruction patches on. I found an odd file somewhere on the drive we weren't supposed to look, a patch labeled 'AE_Fun' . Connecting two and two together in my head my first plan of action was to open this patch. Upon loading it i immediately realized it was the foundation for at least 1 of the songs off Confield , and probably used during most of the songs on their 2001 world tour. Being the child that i am i posted the patch online for anybody to download.
more information and download of AE patch here
2005 - Released a fake version of the Autechre album "Untilted" on soulseek and various file sharing networks. The hoax album spread so successfully that Sean Booth was asked about it in an interview.............. 'When discussing the recent hoax by Recordlabelrecords owner, Robert Martin, who released a fake new Autechre album over the net, before revealing all in a massively distributed, vaguely apologetic note, stating that it was an experiment following the recent hoax beheading of a US marine in Iraq, Sean scoffs The more fakes the merrier, weve released fakes ourselves, but not this time. If it were such a great publicity stunt, he wouldnt have to overpublicise it. Its worse because of the claim that what hes doing is as relevant as a fake beheading. His sense of priority is clearly fucked. '
Autechre interview where Sean Booth disses me
2004 - Released a fake beheading video starring my friend Ben (the great white hype) on internet file sharing networks as a response to how the Nick Berg video looked fake. The mainstream media was so inept that they found the video online and subsequently touted it as an actual american soldier being beheaded on video. This caused the entire world media network (AP, reuters, Al jazeera, Harratz, CBS, ABC, fox news, CNN) to spread the story. Once they finally (4 hours later) decided to call Ben (who clearly says his real name & address in the video) they realized Ben was still alive and it was all a hoax. The media tried to shift the blame away from themselves onto us and for the next 2 days they tried to destroy our image. It got so extreme that even Geraldo himself threatened to kick Ben's ass
Wikipedia entry on Beheading hoax
Video of Fox news claiming we could be arrested
SF chronicle interview with me where they correctly tell our side of the story
1999 - After being on the COIL mailing list for quite some time Ben and I decided to shake things up and break through the pretentious attitude of the people on it. We created a freestyle rap parody of COIL using only samples from the album Scatology. After its release, the album quickly sparked contraversy. World Serpent records reacted by banning the IP address of Record Label Records. Coil were humiliated by the tracks "exhibit a", and "exhibit b" on the album which proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that they sampled Dr. Dre, a claim which they had previously vehemently denied. listen to coil rap parody here
DISCOGRAPHY -
1996 fluorescent grey - Please Do Not Buy This Recording (Cassette)
1997 fluorescent grey - Swiveling Lawn Chairs Cassette RLR
1997 fluorescent grey - Untitled 1997 (CD) RLR
1998 fluorescent grey - Staircase made of balsa wood 1998 (Cassette) RRRecords
1998 V.A. RRRecords 500 locked grooves (LP)
1999 fluorescent grey - 20 - 20,000 Hz (3xCD) RLR
1999 fluorescent grey - Molten Ghost 1999 - (CD) RLR
2000 Auto Transmogrifying Mechanical Duendes 3x12'' RLR
2002 Benjamin Vanderford with fluorescent grey - Good Vs Bad 2 soundtrack RLR
2006 fluorescent grey - Asian Woman Mummy In My Tummy mp3 EP RLR
2006 fluorescent grey - Lying on the floor mingling with god (CD)
2007 V.A. The Wire Tapper 16 (included with Wire magazine)
2007 V.A. Ghos Busters III (CD) RLR
2007 V.A. Electro Music 2007
2008 V.A. Noise Fest 11 2008 'this one goes to 11'
2008 fluorescent grey - Gaseous Opal Orbs (CD) RLR
2008 V.A. The Wire Tapper 19 (included with Wire Magazine) (CD)
3/1/06 - GHOS BUSTERS III CD
Record Label Records auditory sampler w/ new tracks from Wobbly, Kossak, O.S.T. Sote, Farmers Manual, Kush Arora, Tomoroh Hidari, Runzelstirn and Gurgelstock, Brian English and Fluorescent Grey.:
buy RLR compilation here
1/12/07 - Mochipet / RLR release party