Ripple Effect - ProfilesArchive

About Me

Well, we've been kind of on hiatus for a few years, Brian is a new Dad, both work 9-5 jobs, so finding the time to put new tracks together has been, well, almost impossible! But, we figured that hey, let's put some of our tracks up here and see if anyone picks up on it. This is the outline of the bio we used when we were actively looking for a record deal:Ripple Effect is Brian Roach and Marc Waithe. Friends since high school, both shared a pleasure in unearthing new and interesting music and sounds, not to slavishly follow the cool crowd, but for their own genuine pleasure. For both, finding the intelligent dance music genre was their Holy Grail. Warp Records, Autechre, The Orb, Banco de Gaia, Children of the Bong and others, all seduced the duos imagination and intellect. This, they both realized, is the music of the future, not a fast track ticket to the good life, but a genuine and beautiful new way of expression, a communication for the next millennium. Starting in the late 1990s, Roach & Waithe came to the conclusion that, since they like the same music anyway, they should be making their own! They began putting tracks together in Waithes home studio, and have spent the subsequent years sculpting and refining their music, painstakingly building their sonic vision. The tracks spotlight a diversity of styles and range, creating a unique collection of sounds & rhythms, synthesized into a singular vision.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/8/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/rippleeffectmusic
Band Members: Brian Roach Marc Waithe
Influences: The Orb, Orbital, Banco de Gaia, Boards of Canada, Warp Records Artifical Intelligence early 90s artists, Global Communication, too many great artists using machines to create really unique, interesting, and beautiful music, jazz, late 80s/early 90s New York area hip hop, world music
Sounds Like: all of the above we guess. Kind of ambient, kind of techno, kind of it's own weird thing, we were never part of any 'scene' we just made the kind of ambient electronic music that we wanted to listen to. Basically, we wanted to be able to play our tracks for friends that weren't necessarily into techno, throw on an Orb track, throw on one of our tracks, throw on some Banco de Gaia, and have people just think that it all sounded great!
Record Label: Cosmic Playroom
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Were available on Beatport.com!!

Hey all, just wanted to let everyone know that 12 of our songs are available for download/purchase on beatport.com. You can find us through the 'Cosmic Playroom' label or by searching for 'Ripple Effe...
Posted by Ripple Effect on Fri, 03 Aug 2007 08:49:00 PST

'New Songs' on our page!!!

Hello myspace friends. We've added two 'new' songs to our page, 'The Mating Ritual' and 'Serentiy RE'. Both aren't 'new' in the sense of 'we just finished recording them' but in the sense of 'they've ...
Posted by Ripple Effect on Fri, 04 May 2007 12:07:00 PST

Update to say 'no update'!!

Hello myspace community. Just checking in since I haven't blogged in awhile to give the 'um, we have no updates' update! Well, my bandmate Marc got married, which is awesome, and my daughter is now 2,...
Posted by Ripple Effect on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 12:33:00 PST

Happy Holidays to all of our Myspace friends!

Just wanted to quickly wish anyone who comes to check us out before the end of the year a happy holiday season. I'm amazed by all of the great artists I've discovered on myspace this year, and can't w...
Posted by Ripple Effect on Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:56:00 PST

'New' track 'Southern Ghost's' posted!!

Hello to anyone who stumbles across this, or to any of our 'friends' who check in periodically to listen to our stuff. We've posted a 'new' track on our page. Not new in the sense of 'oh, we just crea...
Posted by Ripple Effect on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 08:52:00 PST

Inspiration from artists we've 'met' here!

Just wanted to say again how cool it's been to sort through all of the various artists who have accepted our add invites or who have requested an add. I've tried to listen to everyone's stuff, and it'...
Posted by Ripple Effect on Thu, 27 Jul 2006 12:34:00 PST

Thanks for the links!

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who agreed to link with us, it's an honor to share company with some brilliant musicians, and some good friends. Wish I had some Ripple Effect news to share, but ...
Posted by Ripple Effect on Thu, 25 May 2006 07:28:00 PST

Welcome to our myspace page!

Hey, if you have happened to stumble across this page, welcome. We made 2 albums and a demo of what we thought was pretty great ambient/techno etc. type stuff, but never pursued it with what I guess i...
Posted by Ripple Effect on Fri, 14 Apr 2006 07:14:00 PST