Artist: Sound Tribe Sector 9
Genre(s):
New Age
Discography:
Artifact
Year: 2005
Tracks: 20
Founded in Georgia in the late '90s, Sound Tribe Sector 9 chop-chop tasteful a style of dub-influenced, breakbeat-infused psychedelic medicine with a profound emphasis on chemical group extemporisation, like to the work of jam dance band peers such as the Disco Biscuits, Lake Trout, and the New Deal.
Sound Tribe Sector 9's debut effort, Interplanetary Escape Vehicle (1998), was recorded shortly after the group's formation and provides only skimp hints of what the sound the band would develop, rather focussing on more or less generic instrumental funk and jazz grooves. With the add-on of percussionist Jeffree Lerner in 1999, the band's sound solidified into a powerfully original, highly danceable tapestry. Through changeless touring, the chemical group began to work up a large following among crush band fans. Two more releases -- Live (1999) and Offered Schematics Suggesting Peace (2000) -- captured both the band's developing sound and their increasing pursuit in Mayan mysticism and refinement. The former accurately attested the surefooted tone of the band's unappeasable live performances, spell the latter secondhand parallel tape loops, a blend of unrecorded and studio tracks, and wide enjoyment of invitee flutist Kofi Burbridge to create a more than subtle mix. With a regard for spirituality, equivalence, and a liberation of musical egos, the band eschews solos in favor of small, insistent parts that add together into a musical image that is at once monotone and texturally deep. The band resettled to Northern California in previous 2000.
