The
Buzz11 crew serves up a truly funky top shelf drum & bass with a more
sophisticated jazz influenced sound (in particular not some typical boom-boom).
With some trippy unfiltered
drums and stomach tugging basslines by the kilo Bob Sylvester delivers
mixes that are on a dub-house merry-go-round (with a dose of lukewarm acoustic),
uptempo, soft focus, melodic trance basis aka "everlasting repeat basis".
You will hear that a good
composition isn't necessarily about melody or harmony. It can be an inventive
use of samples, rhythms and effects as shown in all Buzz11's tracks.
Artist History :
Buzz11 can be traced back
to 1992. The original line up of Buzz11 (formerly known as S.M.K.) recorded
a demo tape entitled "Dream out Loud" in 1992. It was followed by two demos:
"Carwashend" (1993) and "Sorbet" (1993).
In 1993, during a politically
very correct electronic scene, Natural Sound Productions released their
CD sampler "New Collection of electronical music from Luxembourg Vol. 2"
including S.M.K.'s "Dream out Loud", "Carwashend" and "Sorbet".
Critics hailed their music
as "most worse ever heard"...Bob Sylvester explained, "Frustration, spoiled
relationships and growing up/old motivated our first musical steps, I guess
it shows in our music."
Bob spent the rest of the
90ties, experimenting (musically) & gaining ground with each song.
He appeared as a "guest" in side projects like the underground radio show
"Chicken Stomach", trying his hand at producing other bands.
In november 1998 Bob Sylvester
asked friend and co-writer Ramon
Mitarbeit to tackle the vocal department.
With no time wasted, Ramon Mitarbeit released a limited edition EP "Irrespirable...
" (named after the result of a hot spicy Indian meal). This soon came to
be recognized as an independent classic and got praised on air plays as
being a "very strange but cool song".
In early summer of 1999 Buzz11
recorded / sampled some material, including the song "Ambino" with guest
/ fill, keymaster Greg Sylvester from LUXUS.
The bands first full-length demo "Best of Electro Acoustic" was released
in 2000. The same year Bob produced bands like "XXX" (a funraphardcorepunkrock
band) & "TECHNOCOWS" (techno / trance).
Now... almost one year later
with new-found enthusiasm, founding member Bob Sylvester is back! Buzz11
have not only new songs (their CD "Virtual Voltage" was released on 4th
of July 2001) but the first RAMON MITARBEIT CD called "Mangue & Vanille"
has been released on december 6, 2001.
(to be continued...)
