Biography Boom Bip & Doseone
Bryan Hollon, aka Boom Bip, is a producer and musician who experiments with many different genres and has developed a sound of his own. His music is mostly instrumental, but over the course of his career he has collaborated with several vocalists. He is currently signed to Lex Records, which, until 2005, was a division of Warp Records in the United Kingdom. He has also had releases on the U.S. based label Mush Records. Boom Bip is also known for the remix work that he has done for many artists on several different record labels. Some of those artists include Hot Hot Heat, Mogwai, Four Tet, M83, Danny Elfman, Pet, and Super Furry Animals.
The attention eventually led to Tom Brown, of Warp Records, asking Hollon to complete his first solo album for Lex Records. The album, Seed to Sun, was released in 2002. He has since released two more albums on Lex: a remix compendium entitled Corymb (2004), and most recently Blue Eyed in the Red Room (2005).
Boom Bip usually tours as full live band including drums, guitars, synths and many gadgets and machines. He has played many large festivals including: Pukkelpop, Coachella, Glastonbury and Transmusicales. He has toured with Super Furry Animals, Mice Parade, Interpol and others in the United States. He has shared the stage with the likes of Sonic Youth, The Cure, Mogwai, etc. Boom Bip and his touring bands have played some of the world's most famous venues such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, Sydney Opera House, Walt Disney Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Victor Vaserely's Foundation and many others.
BOOM BIP (aka. Bryan Hollon) debut solo album, Seed To Sun catapulted him from Cincinnatis hip hop underground to the lofty realms of the international indie cognoscenti, including John Peel heralding Boom Bip as a "modern day Captain Beefheart" after his first Peel Session.
Combining a palette of laptops, hip-hop and rock, Boom Bip went one further and turned Seed To Sun into a four piece live band, performing at Glastonbury, Dedbeat Festival, London's Ether Festival, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris to name a few. Boom Bip was also invited back to record a second Peel Session included on his 2004 album Corymb. including a string of extraordinary remixes by his contemporaries including Boards of Canada, Mogwai and Four Tet.
Meanwhile, Boom Bip upped stakes and moved to Silverlake in LA to start work on Blue Eyed in the Red Room. Cue rolling hills, flowers in bloom, views of Silverlake, beautiful sunsets every night and hummingbirds outside his studio window:
"This album was started on a clean slate, in a new place, with new inspiration,"
"You can hear that in the songs, the fear, excitement, loneliness and comfort that I've felt for the past year. With Seed To Sun I was in rut and a lot of dreaming and sadness were expressed in that album."At the same time, Blue Eyed in the Red Room found Boom Bip returned to his musical roots. He played every instrument on the album himself- which is not to say he has moved away from the ultra-finesse of his unique production style - the textures, sonic details and intricacies, tones, melodies and hypnotic reveries are all still to be found.
"I wanted the listener to get a sense of what is going on inside my head and my environment as much as possible," he explains. "Samples are a detour from that connection. Samples express what you like, but it's someone else's idea and product. To really connect with the listener it was essential that I play everything. While making the record I had the live show in mind the entire time. The new songs are 98% live instrumentation and have energy, structure, chord changes and dynamics. Not loop-based or beat-based like tracks in the past."
Although drums were Boom Bip's first instrument, it was the guitar that turned him into a songwriter. "Even though I've tinkered with guitar and used it in songs over the years, I never fully committed to it like I did with this record," he admits. "In times of beauty and peace I can lay down delicate acoustic parts and in times of excitement or anger I can thrash an electric."
Saccherlige is both a departure and development of his musical style. Where his debut left him branded him an electronic hip hop producer and Blue Eyed, a lush, organic instrumentalist, his new EP finds him moving wholely into computer generated sounds, danceable beats and melodic electronics in which he develops some of the harder, faster electro themes that have appeared throughout his previous albums.
Punchy beats and lush melodies that are trademarks of Bip's sound remain steadfast, however the influences of Giorgio Moroder and perhaps even 80s Italo prog-soundtrackers such as Goblin creep into the uptempo synth lines and there's more than a hint of grimey percussive baseline to guarantee dancefloor action. These are 5 tracks of the highest calibre and we can't wait until release date.
This EP is a link with his past work which has often included beat-driven club friendly electronics (The Move from Blue Eyed in the Red Room being a prime example) but also harks towards the sound of his next major project, Neon Neon with Gruff Rhys in which vintage / futuristic styles merge to perfection.
In 2007 Boom Bip formed the partnership Neon Neon with Gruff Rhys, who he originally collaborated with on his album Blue Eyed in the Red Room. Their debut single Trick for Treat was released in July 2007.
Remixers
Biography
Hollon is originally from Cincinnati, Ohio but has relocated to the city of Los Angeles, California. His career began as a DJ on Cincinnati's WAIF and also as a DJ at a small club there called Ripley's hosting an evening of jazz, hip-hop and electronic music. He soon hooked up with New York producer DJ Osiris and Robert Curcio to produce "The Low End Sequence EP", named after his evening at Ripley's. Not long after that he met rapper Doseone in the local clubs and open mic nights and they collaborated on their first album titled Circle for Mush Records. This album grabbed the attention of John Peel and Gilles Peterson in the UK and soon they were a name in the British Underground Rap and Electronic scene.The attention eventually led to Tom Brown, of Warp Records, asking Hollon to complete his first solo album for Lex Records. The album, Seed to Sun, was released in 2002. He has since released two more albums on Lex: a remix compendium entitled Corymb (2004), and most recently Blue Eyed in the Red Room (2005).
Boom Bip usually tours as full live band including drums, guitars, synths and many gadgets and machines. He has played many large festivals including: Pukkelpop, Coachella, Glastonbury and Transmusicales. He has toured with Super Furry Animals, Mice Parade, Interpol and others in the United States. He has shared the stage with the likes of Sonic Youth, The Cure, Mogwai, etc. Boom Bip and his touring bands have played some of the world's most famous venues such as Centre Pompidou in Paris, Sydney Opera House, Walt Disney Hall, Royal Festival Hall, Victor Vaserely's Foundation and many others.
BOOM BIP (aka. Bryan Hollon) debut solo album, Seed To Sun catapulted him from Cincinnatis hip hop underground to the lofty realms of the international indie cognoscenti, including John Peel heralding Boom Bip as a "modern day Captain Beefheart" after his first Peel Session.
Combining a palette of laptops, hip-hop and rock, Boom Bip went one further and turned Seed To Sun into a four piece live band, performing at Glastonbury, Dedbeat Festival, London's Ether Festival, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris to name a few. Boom Bip was also invited back to record a second Peel Session included on his 2004 album Corymb. including a string of extraordinary remixes by his contemporaries including Boards of Canada, Mogwai and Four Tet.
Meanwhile, Boom Bip upped stakes and moved to Silverlake in LA to start work on Blue Eyed in the Red Room. Cue rolling hills, flowers in bloom, views of Silverlake, beautiful sunsets every night and hummingbirds outside his studio window:
"This album was started on a clean slate, in a new place, with new inspiration,"
"You can hear that in the songs, the fear, excitement, loneliness and comfort that I've felt for the past year. With Seed To Sun I was in rut and a lot of dreaming and sadness were expressed in that album."At the same time, Blue Eyed in the Red Room found Boom Bip returned to his musical roots. He played every instrument on the album himself- which is not to say he has moved away from the ultra-finesse of his unique production style - the textures, sonic details and intricacies, tones, melodies and hypnotic reveries are all still to be found.
"I wanted the listener to get a sense of what is going on inside my head and my environment as much as possible," he explains. "Samples are a detour from that connection. Samples express what you like, but it's someone else's idea and product. To really connect with the listener it was essential that I play everything. While making the record I had the live show in mind the entire time. The new songs are 98% live instrumentation and have energy, structure, chord changes and dynamics. Not loop-based or beat-based like tracks in the past."
Although drums were Boom Bip's first instrument, it was the guitar that turned him into a songwriter. "Even though I've tinkered with guitar and used it in songs over the years, I never fully committed to it like I did with this record," he admits. "In times of beauty and peace I can lay down delicate acoustic parts and in times of excitement or anger I can thrash an electric."
Saccherlige is both a departure and development of his musical style. Where his debut left him branded him an electronic hip hop producer and Blue Eyed, a lush, organic instrumentalist, his new EP finds him moving wholely into computer generated sounds, danceable beats and melodic electronics in which he develops some of the harder, faster electro themes that have appeared throughout his previous albums.
Punchy beats and lush melodies that are trademarks of Bip's sound remain steadfast, however the influences of Giorgio Moroder and perhaps even 80s Italo prog-soundtrackers such as Goblin creep into the uptempo synth lines and there's more than a hint of grimey percussive baseline to guarantee dancefloor action. These are 5 tracks of the highest calibre and we can't wait until release date.
This EP is a link with his past work which has often included beat-driven club friendly electronics (The Move from Blue Eyed in the Red Room being a prime example) but also harks towards the sound of his next major project, Neon Neon with Gruff Rhys in which vintage / futuristic styles merge to perfection.
In 2007 Boom Bip formed the partnership Neon Neon with Gruff Rhys, who he originally collaborated with on his album Blue Eyed in the Red Room. Their debut single Trick for Treat was released in July 2007.
Discography
Solo: Albums/EPs/Singles
- 2002 - Seed to Sun
- 2002 - "Mannequin Hand Trapdoor I Reminder"
- 2004 - Corymb
- 2004 - "Morning & a Day EP"
- 2003 - "From Left to Right"
- 2005 - Blue Eyed in the Red Room
- 2005 - "Do's & Don'ts"
- 2007 - "Sacchrilege EP"
Solo: Break Records
- 2000 - Doo Doo Breaks Volume 1
- 2002 - Doo Doo Tones
- 2003 - Doo Doo Breaks Volume 2
with DJ Osiris
- 1998 - "The Low End Sequence EP"
with Doseone
- 2000 - Circle
with Daedelus
- 2004 - "28:06:42:12"
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