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DALLAS ORBITERMotorcycle Diagrams
Each song is an impressive piece of work, showcasing a band capable of expertly interlacing vocals with music, never letting one side of the equation overpower the other. Splendid Ezine
Magnesium Fireflies magically melds the mystic experimentalism of Pink Floyd, the quirky playfulness of the Flaming Lips, and the honey-soaked harmonies of the Hang Ups. City Pages
Dallas Orbiter spent a year building a home studio in the basement of drummer Greg Flanagan, and its new CD, Magnesium Fireflies, is proof that that time was wisely spent. The spacey, psychedelic set is full of intricately constructed jamming, but the layers and overdubs the band added while self-producing the record give Fireflies a real richness that should please fans of Miles Davis and More-era Pink Floyd. True to its well-chosen name, Dallas Orbiter plays music that sometimes floats as if it's barely tethered to Earth, but there's also an undeniable pop sensibility at work, especially on the CD's first two songs, the Syd-Barrett-esque "Bed of Stars" and the straight-up anthem "Arise." The Onion
A.V Club - Twin Cities ONION
Localized The decade in local music: 2008 Dallas OrbiterMotorcycle Diagrams(Princess Records)
The band: These five guys dared to strip away the theatricality and bombast of '70s glam rock, only to find there was something substantial underneath it after all.
The album: For anyone who thinks that all the fun of glam rock comes from the stage show and makeup, Dallas Orbiter proves that notion false. Motorcycle Diagrams sucks listeners in from the start without even a hint of eyeliner, and it's hard to shake afterward. "Hallelujah, The Jetpack Dandies" sounds like it could have been on David Bowie's Aladdin Sane or Hunky Dory, while "Ampbuzz Is For Lovers" has an ear-splitting intro that would turn Josh Homme green with envy. But what holds the gleaming, slippery, mercurial stew together is the Farfisa organ. Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd fans may cry foul, but the rest will simply listen and wonder why glam rock isn't more popular today.
2008 Pop music: Best records had confidence on trackBy Ross Raihala 12/28/2008
If there is a common thread running among the best records of 2008, it's one of confidence, whether it was Atmosphere flirting with the mainstream, Portishead reinventing themselves after an extended break or Gary Louris stepping out on his own for the first time. Here's a look at the best of what the year had to offer:
8. Dallas Orbiter, Motorcycle Diagrams (Princess Records): Under-the-radar fivesome Dallas Orbiter could easily slip into self-parody if they didn't clearly have such a passion for smart, squealing and over-the-top guitar rock. Fans of early Pink Floyd, "Ziggy"-era David Bowie and more recent Muse albums will find much to adore here. Key tracks: "Ampbuzz Is for Lovers," "The Damocles Files" Dallas OrbiterThu., December 4, 9:00pm
Local reviewers have described Dallas Orbiter as a psychedelic, spaced-out group of retrogazers. And while there is certainly some degree of substance to those labels, the quintet can't be defined by hippie banter alone. There's a wealth of tracks from this year's Motorcycle Diagrams that condense those comparative labels and overshadow them with ingenuity. Throughout the band's album is a balance of old and new; pulsing keyboards offset gripping guitars, colliding with tasteful pop arrangements. All of which will be on display when the band hits up the Hexagon Bar Thursday night, playing with local instrumental band Build My Gallows High and Dante & the Lobster. 21+. -Chris DeLine
Metromix Twin Cities Roll Call
Your weekly guide to music on the Twin Cities' small stages
Mind bending psychedelic rock has never exactly been the Twin Cities scenes calling card, but two bands currently gigging regularly are doing plenty to change that perception, and both are in action tonight.
Those seeking narcotized droning rock n roll lullabies to soothe them should check out To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie at the Turf Clubthe sound of feedback is rarely this beautiful. (9 p.m., $TBD, 21+)
For a sound equally prone to flights of feedback fed fancy but more enamored of twitchy prog-rock time signatures, check out Dallas Orbiters space rock textures at the Hexagon Bar. Its a win-win either way for lovers of adventurous outer fringes rock. (9 p.m., Free, 21+) -Rob van Alstyne
Dallas Orbiter'Motorcycle Diagrams'Princess RecordsOver indulgence from aging jazz-rockersFrom its sketchy, disjointed beginnings, punctuated drums, scattered guitar riffs and some tasty feedback, the jazz-rock offerings of Minneaplis four piece Dallas Orbiters third album Motorcycle Diagrams begins its descent. I say descent, as the album is challenging to like in the first instance. Its a difficult listen when the band are messing around and more comfortable to take in when they resort to comprehensible arrangements, such as on the upbeat, riff-driven Amp Buzz Is For Lovers, a more standard rock song than the jazzier offerings that crop up throughout. Amp Buzz has a sense of the seventies to it, of stadium rock gone indoors. The vocals arent exactly melodious or the melody easy to follow but there is something about it that works, however briefly.The band are capable of broader, Mercury Rev-esque soundscapes too, such as The Dawn & Jitters, disjointed and eerie, which gives the notion of a band with a lot of ability that listening to them wouldnt immediately suggest but a blueprint of their music would by revealing complexity and intricacy in abundance. And this is exactly the problem with Dallas Orbiter, they are far easier to respect than to enjoy. The album on the whole is overly long and generally unremarkable and by the time its finished its more of a relief than anything else. -Steven FanningIf you like the sound of this, then check these out? Mercury Rev
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What with that synth-punk thing that seemed like it would never, ever end still hanging around in the recesses of our collective memory, you're probably right to be a little skeptical about any band that pulls in keyboards and big, snarling guitars. It's a response conditioned by several years of increasingly grating and unimaginative dance-punk types. We know how it goes.
Bite down and ignore your instincts when Dallas Orbiter starts playing. If the band's keyboards and huge guitars attack vaguely shoehorns it into the dance-punk dance memories, it's only because you're seeing it in black and white and not with your ears. Instead of glitchy disco-punk or that weird synth-pop thing favored by pop-punk fanatics, Motorcycle Diagrams revs up its engines for nothing short of all-out rock. In Dallas Orbiter's hands, the union of electronics and rock guitars isn't a novel gimmick, but a forgone conclusion we should have all arrived at a long, long time ago.
So just get over the guitars and spacey sounds thing already. Dallas Orbiter's been doing this for years (even if it toiled in all but the most impenetrable obscurity) and knows how to approach its electro-rock hybrid: as songwriters. Again, that's probably a shock after seeing so many of the band's contemporaries rely upon the collision of organic and electronic elements to get them by. The band boasts the sort of well groomed vocals that'll draw the band comparisons to Death Cab, but the indie-pop comparisons end there. Motorcycle Diagrams is in love with the sort of guitars set to rattle the floors and leave your ears ringing. "Ampbuzz is for Lovers" and "The Damocles File" borrow the haze from early Jesus and Mary Chain albums, although the band's crunched-out, muscular guitars hint at '90s Midwestern bands like Honcho Overload and, to a lesser degree, Hum. "Bzzjh" is a full-blown digitized psychedelic freak-out, with manic drums beating away at keyboards screeching a sci-fi horror melody as guitar and bass churn in the song's underbelly. "New Chrome" momentarily sets down the traditional instruments for a bit of indie-tronica, albeit a wild-eyed and dangerous brand of indie-tronica, and "The Dawn and Jitters" goes the same route. Both exclusively electronic tracks aren't nearly as forceful as the act's more varied instrumentation.
Even in 2008, we're very, very slowly closing the gap that separates electronics and traditional bands. That's a heck of a shame for Dallas Orbiter, as Motorcycle Diagrams just might be one of our possible, and far-flung, rock futures. -Matt Schild
Mammoth Press
Dallas Orbiter Motorcycle Diagrams
There is a strange fusion of electronic fuzz-rock on Motorcycle Diagrams that is timeless and intriguing. One part Modest Mouse and one part Minus the Bear with a dash of psychedelic undertones, the record begins without much fanfare and finally gets good with the fourth track Stabbed By Grace. The group finally gets out of its low-key meanderings and breaks into some melodious songwriting.
Dallas Orbiter has some great songs on this record, and equally terrible ones as well. If you started this record from the fourth track on, you would hear a relaxed blend of sugary electronic pop that sets the mood for a quiet evening at home, of course this does not last long. The group seems to have a noisy side as well that just has to be heard and IS heard a little too much to make this a cohesive effort. On the track Bzzjh, the group jams around in for a couple of minutes and accomplishes nothing except mashing the keys on the organ and breaking up the flow of the previous couple of tracks.
The album then jumps around again, and heads back into a delightful music pattern, which unfortunately includes more noodling on the piano. I am left bewildered and shaking my head, this is something that could have been truly wonderful, but instead is ruined by screwball antics. This record is for you folks who like your pop music strange, and full of musical misbehavior. Otherwise, if you cannot take music that has no real direction this may be one to skip altogether.
RIYL: Beck, Modest Mouse, Alternative Space Rock
Adam J. Pugh
Dallas Orbiter Motorcycle Diagrams (Princess Records, 2008)Dallas Orbiter is yet another band to join psychedelic rock with pop. What is the difference between this band and the rest, you ask. Well, the difference is that this Minneapolis based group does it damn good. In Motorcycle Diagrams, their third album, they bring amazing ideas and somewhat retro psychedelic rock melodies.
The opening song of Motorcycle Diagrams is "Caspian." This is one of my favorite songs off of the album. It sounds alot like a Vampire Weekend song yet somehow much more subversive and more enjoyable. Less cohesive songs like "Ampbuzz is For Lovers" and "Maybe Soon The Lakeflies" take away from the otherwise good experience that is the album. But, where those fall short songs like "Stabbed By Grace" and "The Damocles File" not only make-up for the weaker efforts but also make this album one to remember. "Stabbed By Grace" shows their lyrical prowess when they belt out saying like "Nobody Honest Can Really Sleep Anymore." "The Damocles File" is by far the most accessible of the set. Containing catchy up-beat melodies it has a certain intangible that makes it easy to enjoy.
Overall Dallas Orbiter made a damn good album. Motorcycle Diagrams surpasses other albums of the genre. At the same time while it is very good it will not bring anything but more cult success to Dallas Orbiter. So for now all this album is, is another cult album that deserves much more attention than it will get.
Even though eclectic group Dallas Orbiter mainly dabble in otherworldly art-rock territory previously explored by the likes of Radiohead, Talking Heads, and Grandaddy, the Minneapolis-based quintet incorporates stylistic touches from jazz, funk, and trip-hop to create a listening experience thats both exhilarating and disorienting in a single song.
Like most groups who create music with a tinge of the avant-garde, Dallas Orbiters latest album, Motorcycle Diagrams, tries to throw its listeners a few sonic curveballs, most notably on the opening track Caspian and instrumental freak-out Bzzjh. (Dont ask me how to pronounce that). From there, Motorcycle Diagrams consists of beautifully hallucinogenic ballads (Brow Of Zeus, The Dawn & Jitters) and quirky, upbeat rockers (Ambuzz Is For Lovers, The Damocles File). While the artful detours, like on the haunted-house beginning of Maybe Soon The Lakeflies, dont really lead the listener to newfound paths, Motorcycle Diagrams has enough strong, consistent songwriting overall to make the album a worthwhile ride.
The album begins with Caspian, a track which sounds like the mutant sibling of Radioheads Airbag and one of Clap Your Hands Say Yeahs false-start-freak-out-the-listener album openers. Caspian has such diverse touches as call-and-response guitar licks, a syncopated bass line, herky-jerky start-stop drumming, and a deliberately over-distorted vocal. The end result of all these techniques is utter confusion, but also curiosity. The rhythm section eventually establishes a groove which sounds like chaos theory come to life, as swells of feedback firmly entrench themselves in the background. It's a little disappointing that Caspian sputters to an anti-climatic end, but it doesn't do so before piquing the listeners intrigue.
Dallas Orbiter then rewards those who are still captivated by launching into the sci-fi camp and dingy garage-rock of Ampbuzz Is For Lovers. At first, the tracks dissonant half-steps suggest another space oddity of some kind, but, shortly thereafter, Ampbuzz explodes into a raw, grungy guitar riff. The song still retains the edge of Caspian, but this time theres equal amounts of tension and release. The former arrivesin the form of a gnarly keyboard solo and the latter re-establishes itself every time the guitars dig their heels into the songs refrain. Elsewhere, The Dawn and Jitters either coolly invents the space reggae genre, or, more likely, adeptly adapts the funky art-rock chill of TV On The Radio and Stabbed By Grace combines a smooth, lounge-like atmosphere (particularly worth pointing out is the sliding bass line) with an uplifting, ethereal chorus.
Those invigorating motifs are what Dallas Orbiter do best, and Motorcycle Diagrams reaches its peak with a song called The Damocles File. The waves of keyboard arpeggios should have fans of Grandaddy smiling and nodding while the sharp, staccato rhythms will have everyone else heading straight for the dance floor. Structurally, File is standard, verse-chorus-verse pop song for the most part, but Dallas Orbiters tight playing still make it thrilling to hear. A couple of brief instrumental breakdown aptly demonstrate the jazz influence which occasionally creeps into the quintets music (see also the dub-reggae bass lines that crop up on tracks like Pigeon).
Of course, every peak has its valley, and while Dallas Orbiter dont really lose the momentum gained by The Damocles File, they dont quite keep up with it either. New Chrome has a nifty, Devo-esque, nervous twitch to it, but songs cant sustain themselves on quirk alone. Hallelujah, The Jetpack Dancer fairs much better, as it recalls a doo-wop song covered by Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie. Finally, Meet You closes Motorcycle Diagrams on an excellently epic note. The song begins with the kind of ambient atmospherics inherent in a Sigur Ros song, but then pivots to extended, heavy, but still experimental, jamming; Stoners should approve highly.
Though Motorcycle Diagrams is neither a musical miracle, nor simply psychedelia, Dallas Orbiter show enough promise to keep curious listeners interested. -Jonathan Graef
AIDING AND ABETTINGDallas OrbiterMotorcycle Diagrams(Princess) Loopy math-ish stuff. Reminds me a lot of Brainiac. I guess that reference may be lost on some of you. Too bad, man. Brainiac was the shit.What I like is that these guys mix their obvious proficiency and inclination toward analytical sounds with what can only be described as a deranged sensibility. There is no sense to a fair portion of this, except within the minds of the folks propagating it.And even when Dallas Orbiter retreats into geekland, the songs are engaging. There's always an interesting rhythm somewhere, and the sense of melody here is involved, but rarely convoluted beyond the realm of reality.Sure, it's a little weird. And it's guaranteed to reduce your chances of romance. Sacrifices must be made if good music is to survive.
Kudos and congrats to Dallas Orbiter on being featured in this week's XM Satellite Radio's Radar Report. You can check it out here.
Missing the sceneFormer UW-O students, Minneapolis-based Dallas Orbiter talk transition to big cityby Ryan Rougeux of the Advance-TitanFor most area bands, dreams of one day leaving their Oshkosh basements to sign to a major label and ride waves of stardom from continent to continent dominate. But for the ageing, five-piece rock ensemble, Dallas Orbiter, leaving their Oshkosh basement led to more modest ambitions as the band members are now approaching their mid-30s. At this point, it isnt really about being on American Idol or getting on the Warped Tour, Mark Miller, guitarist and vocalist for Dallas Orbiter, said. The band brings a modern fusion of acid and glam rock that is filled out by a wall of guitar effects and layers of synthesizer. There is some 70s stuff like Bowie and T. Rex, that kind of thing, said Miller. Local artist, Jeremiah Nelson, has played with the band on a few occasions. Although Nelson traditionally plays a more stripped down show than Dallas Orbiter, he likes performing with the band. They have a lot of well-written rock songs with lots of quarks and a psychedelic flair to it, said Nelson. It is all drilled into your face with a bunch of crazy effects. Tons of effects and lots of swirly guitars. For Dallas Orbiter, the venue largely dictates how the band will execute its performance. When we do shows at smaller clubs well play more covers, or if the PA stinks. We know if we play too loud, well just piss people off, drummer Greg Flanagan said. Our live shows are a bit louder than the albums would imply. The members of Dallas Orbiter attended classes at UW-Oshkosh in the late 90s and now reside in Minneapolis where they continue to make music out of a basement, playing as many shows as the weekend allows. We are all too old to hop in a van and go on tour, and too young to give it up, Flanagan said. I realistically dont think that we could go on tour for more than a week and it is hard to make enough money to even sustain a tour. Unlike Oshkosh, the Minneapolis music scene offers an extensive variety of clubs and venues for bands to play. But with such a large population, Dallas Orbiter finds it difficult to stand out in such an overwhelmingly large pool of artists. In Oshkosh, people go out and if it is their friends band, theyre excited to be there and they make it a fun show, said Flanagan. In Minneapolis, there is a great musician community, but all the musicians are playing out in one of the 50 places to play at, so it is a little harder to get a lot of people to come out to a show. The band also finds that Minneapolis residents are harder to impress. I think part of it is that the twin cities are so big and have so many bands that people get option paralysis. They dont know what shows to go to, and if they do go, they just stand around like they are waiting to be impressed, Flanagan said. Since the members of Dallas Orbiter took up residence in Minneapolis, several of the Oshkosh venues that they frequented have stopped bringing in bands or have shut down completely. When I was there, Barneys was the big place to play. It was across from North Scott Hall. Now I think there is a Jimmy Johns there, Flanagan said. Although the musical landscape for Oshkosh has narrowed, Miller does not attribute the blame to a lack of good musicians. There are still a lot of really good bands in Oshkosh, Miller said. I dont think it has anything to do with the bands, I think it is just business. Although the band has no immediate plans to make a jump at anything larger, Dallas Orbiter plans to release albums and enjoy the comfort of being a mostly studio band.
Dallas OrbiterMotorcycle Diagrams(Princess Records) From the outset of "Caspian," the opening track on Dallas Orbiter's sophomore effort, this album fairly gleams. The band has been (and will likely continue to be) compared to space rock in the Bowie vein. That's a fair assessment, but they're far less theatrical and light years from being a facsimile (no pun intended). The sci-fi references pop up here and there ("Hallelujah, the Jetpack Dandies," sounds like a long lost track from Bowie's Aladdin Sane), but often the lyrics seem rooted more in Greek mythology than anything else ("Brow of Zeus," "The Damocles File"), and there is more than a smidgeon of Pink Floyd-esque spaced-out weirdness present throughout, owing to the copious use of a Farfisa organ. I don't mean to describe an album that would appeal only to the hardest-core vinyl nerds and career potheads. To the contrary, Motorcycle Diagrams is immensely listenable and more than a little glossybut that gloss is nicked and pockmarked enough to keep the listener engaged through to the denouement. Each song has its own unique richness and texture, from the Queens of the Stone Age-tinged "Ampbuzz Is for Lovers" to the haunting, electronica-bruised, quasi-murder ballad "The Dawn & Jitters." "The Damocles File," in particular, seems ripe for radio play, though the album as a whole is bursting at its edges with some of the catchiest hooks I have come across in a long while. We're only a few weeks into '08, but this is already a contender for one of the year's best local albums.Pat O'Brien
Headliners Dallas Orbiter are one of my favorite new bands of late. Their new album, Motorcycle Diagrams, will be in heavy rotation in my cars CD player for quite some timeI cant stop listening to it. I think part of the reason lies in the fact that they dont stick hard and fast to any one genre.
On this night, the band was space rock-ish, but pretty funky (and lead singer Mark Miller writes killerand I mean killerhooks). The songs were all at their core, pop songs, but they had been tweaked, prodded and had additions built onto them, giving each song its own rich texture and undeniable magnetism. They played a few songs from their 2004 debut, Magnesium Fireflies, as well, and while those songs were enjoyable, they didnt entrance me like the songs from Diagrams, did.
The instrumentation was interesting to say the least. It included an organ, a synthesizer and the usual guitar, bass, drums, etc. but the whole was more than the sum of its parts. Everything was used in near-perfect fashion, from the weirdo, almost timeless looking film that played on the screen behind themMagritte and Dali paintings come to life and invading that old MTV show "Liquid Television"to the instruments themselves. There were big organ flourishes here and there and the occasional random guitar struck in the middle of everything, but nothing came off as showy or forced, it just seemed like exactly the right the thing at exactly the right time, much like Dallas Orbiter themselves could be in the coming months. - Pat O'Brien
Dallas Orbiter's space rock simply out of this worldDallas OrbiterMotorcycle Diagrams(Princess Records)Here we are, just a few days into 2008, and I've already found a serious contender for my year-end list that will run in this space about a dozen months from now.
Local space rockers Dallas Orbiter have issued their second proper album, "Motorcycle Diagrams," and it's a must-have for fans of psychedelic pop songs and squealing, noisy guitars. The band debuts it to the public tonight with a CD-release gig at the Varsity. Ouija Radio, the Chambermaids and Daughters of the Sun open.
The five guys in Dallas Orbiter are clearly record collectors, as they dig much deeper for inspiration than the last Flaming Lips album. They recall various acts and eras with obvious affection and fill the disc with sly nods to everyone from Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd ("Pigeon") to pianist and David Bowie collaborator Mike Garson ("The Damocles Files," the most immediately likable track on the album) to over-the-top British trio Muse ("Ampbuzz Is for Lovers"). But they rarely sound derivative, which again is a feat when so many similar acts are content to merely replicate what worked in the past. - ROSS RAIHALA
If music could shimmer, Dallas Orbiter's surely would. They take Aladdin Sane-era Bowie glam and tweak it a little (though they don't wear the skintight bodysuits, for better or worse), and mix in a healthy dose of Detroit garage rock. It's definitely dolled-up, but it doesn't seem like an affectation nor does it seem that the band is putting on airs. They temper their act with enough Queens of the Stone Age-esque swagger that would-be detractors have to dig pretty deep to take issue with much of it. The band is well-served by the workhorse quality present on their latest, Motorcycle Diagrams. Without coming across as too playful or wacky, the disc delivers just the right amount of fun. Openers Ouija Radio have a sound reminiscent of Missing Persons on amphetamines and are just as fun to watch, as their shows often end in hedonistic debauchery. Led by singer/badass Christy Hunt, Ouija Radio should be on everyone's short list for breakout artists in '08.With the Chambermaids and Daughters of the Sun.18+. $5. 9:00 p.m. 1308 Fourth St. SE, Minneapolis; 612.604.0222. Pat O'Brien
Dallas Orbiter (who hail from nowhere near Dallas; Minneapolis in fact) display quite a penchant for swirling psychedelics and memorable melodies on their second release "Magnesium Fireflies." The best track here is the opener, "Bed Of Stars", a weedy mini-symphony of sorts, with an elastic Stone Roses bass groove, guitars fed through wah-wah pedals, Mark Miller's relaxed-yet confident voice(think Elliot Smith mixed with Ian Brown), and twinkling keyboards that actually do somehow sound like a bed of stars. It's a shining example of how Dallas Orbiter get the most out of their recording studio and the array of instruments in their collection (In addition to the "regular" instruments, bowed saws, lap steel, flute recorder, programmers and farfisa are all used at different point throughout this eight song mini-album). Elsewhere things rock a little harder on "Arise" and "Molecules Kissing" which sound like something that would have fit nicely on The Flaming Lips' "Transmissions From The Satellite Heart." The band slows things down for "So Pretty" and "Akron" both of which are more than a little influenced by Radiohead's interstellar melancholy, and we're all better off for it. The album closes with "The Kids," which clocks in at just under 13 minutes and allows the band to indulge in their more experimental side, without sounding like art-school wankers. It took a few listens before this album fully clicked, but once it did it pulled me in like The Millennium Falcon going into the Death Star. Where they go from here is anyone's guess, but it should be quite a trip. David Mansdorf
Got 40 minutes or so to slap your headphones on and stare at the ceiling? Good, Dallas Orbiter is ready to hang out and give you something to do nothing to. These Minneapolis boys play an experimental brand of pop that goes down easy. The titular chorus from "Arise" is swooping, and its wall-of-sound throws enough at you to pin you down and make you catch your breath when it's all over. "Shoot the Lights Out" has sweet harmonies to finish off the skittering percussion and comes to a close before it drags on too long. More often than not, the band pushes their experimental musical ideas without getting lost. "73rd and Something" could have used some tightening -- a wiser choice would have been less wailing guitar and something else in the rhythm to anchor it down. Vocalist Mark Miller's delivery has a warble that doesn't always fit the music, and I can't help wonder if a bit more force would service the songs better. The 12+ minutes of "The Kids" loses some cohesiveness midway, but that's probably to be expected with such material. I can't be sure if its second half is simply a hidden track (with only a two-second pause between them), but I guess that's nature of extended jams: You can't tell what the heck is going on when the groove kicks into another gear. Boon Sheridan
Dallas OrbiterMagnesium Fireflies(CD, Princess, Progressive pop)Soft reflective pop interspersed with lengthy jazzy instrumental passages. This Minneapolis-based quintet is providing unusual content with their music. Instead of utilizing traditional pop formulas or recognizable chord progressions, these fellows allow spontaneity to trip into their tunes...often allowing them to go off on some rather remarkable tangents. The overall sound is something like combining progressive rock from the 1970s with underground pop of the 1990s. Magnesium Fireflies, while unpredictable and peculiar, is a strangely calming album. This band really flexes their muscles here, displaying an amazing range of styles and influences. The only problem they may face is that...their music is probably too complex for most listeners. But our guess it that these gents are in it for bucks or success anyway. Their music is inherently genuine and driven by artistic integrity. Cool tracks include "Bed of Stars," "So Pretty," and "Shoot the Lights Out." (Rating: 5)
Ok kids, time for some space rock. But I promise that youre not being lead into a vacuous, vocal-devoid expanse of jazz-inspired weirdness that youve probably experienced once or twice before. Dallas Orbiter definitely uses these elements in their music, but also maintains a structure where guitars and vocals can co-exist within a more experimental, electronically generated landscape. The bands CD Magnesium Fireflies is a listening experience, and it seems that much of the effort put into writing and arrangements was executed to make the sum of all parts merge to establish a mood and a narrative by working together to create varying levels of intensity interleaved with multiple layers of sonic integrity at least thats how my ear perceives it.Magnesium Fireflies is the third release the band has put out since its inception in 2000 and once you listen to it, youll be amazed at how the band fuses some discernible outside influences and conventional and obscure instrumentation and manages to deliver some very enjoyable and lucid music.
LOST AT SEADallas OrbiterMagnesium FirefliesPrincess RecordsRating: 8/10
Magnesium Fireflies weighs in with a mere 8 songs, which apparently precludes it from official "album" status. But at the same time I would doubt that 8 songs qualifies it for the status of an EP. Regardless, it's track listing landed it in the mailer stuffed with short players to be reviewed for my seminal column, EPmd, which is the final chance for any CD or vinyl single or EP to see a review before being permanently dispatched. Given the caliber of this release, I felt it was my civic duty to give it a proper write up so that you, dear reader, might be better informed to make your own decision as to whether or not it is an album.
Dallas Orbiter play extremely tuneful, clever pop songs that are only really in danger of criticism through their striking similarity to the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev. Although lyrics like "arise, magnesium fireflies" and "synapses are just molecules kissing" certainly sound like they could have been swiped from the Wayne Coyne songbook, it would be unfair to dismiss the band as pale imitators, and they do jump off on some more pure-psych directions over the course of Magnesium Fireflies. The weirder instrumental excursions are more distinctive but are also the slightly less successful; but if the band can combine those two strengths they could move toward the lofty heights of the groups with which they are surely sick of being compared. - Erick Bieritz
Summer 05
Dallas Orbiter Magnesium Fireflies Princess Records This band out of Minneapolis manages to walk the line between creative indie pop rock and an otherworldly sound that features enough programmed noise to make your brain overload - though with ease. The entire disc has its own uniqueness to it, a complete flow through poetically melodic vocals and psychedelic musical moments that are accentuated by a number of instruments. Though the five members hold their own while using the basics of the drums, bass and acoustic guitars, the way each is featured in the forefront is a credit to the diversity on this album. Using a bowed saw, lap steel, farfisa, filters, Rhoads piano and synths, extra details are added during lines like "you look so pretty, when you're digging my grave." Standout tracks include "Bed Of Stars," "73rd and Something" and "Akron." -J.C. Carnahan
COPPER PRESSA candy-coated treat of psychedelia, 70s glam pop, 80s retro, 90s alternative and British rock all mixed into one, Magnesium Fireflies is a breathtaking record, genuinely appealing to the senses. Dallas Orbiter, an electro-rock band from Minneapolis seems to find abnormal amounts of creative power, finding the means to write and perform songs that transcend most music today that claims commercial radio airplay.
Yet with all this praise, the music seeks to lack coherency and structure throughout the record, which may mean their artwork only merits college radio airplay. The songs do not fit the traditional framework of composition, and although the instrumentation is pretty, subtle, stunning and hauntingly rich at times, there are many instances that too much noise and flavors are present, and really not working in the overall grand scheme of themes. Still, that is surely Dallas Orbiters intent, and with deeper listening and introspection, they are confident their music has already reached a devoted following as they continue to tour. The songs are full of life, awkward melodies, dissonant and strange instrumentation, that in the end, being unique and original in successful fashion is what this group is. Magnesium Fireflies is a journey of high-octane fueled psychedelia, and one listener must be fully ready to appreciate and intake its magic. Shawn M. Haney
COPPER PRESSGo looking for any given musical influence on Magnesium Fireflies and you're likely to find it. Dallas Orbiter (as it happens, their preferred orbit is Minneapolis, over one thousand miles to the north) blend vocal harmonies and guitar-based pop and expand the resulting sound infinitely outward with electronic effects. What comes out of the stereo speakers is an intimately grand distillation of recent music history: Sixties radio pop, seventies psychedelica, eighties jazz fusion, nineties indie rock and present-day Britpop.
Where electronica is concerned, bands have a tendency to to be gratuitous before they are judicious. Dallas Orbiter's songs do incorporate quite a bit - the eighth and final track, "The Kids," is a nearly thirteen-minute ambient outro (with a verse-chorus format buried in the middle) that makes use of everything in the band's home studio - but never seems ungainly or over-tinkered the way, say, The Cardigans' Gran Turismo or Swell's Everybody Wants to Know at times can barely support themselves under the weight of ProTools noodling.
Direct comparisons to Seattle's Voyager One wouldn't be entirely out of place, not least because both bands seem to find a welcome metaphor in outer space and their desired sound. But Dallas Orbiter - at least on this disc, technically their second full-length - are distinct from V1 in that there are noticeable interstices between the Minneapolis outfit's manifold instrumental layers. V1 has often tended to go for a thick, enveloping fog of noise pop.
Though it has few outright faults (aside, that is, from the purple nonsense of Stephen McCabe's commendatory liner notes), Magnesium Fireflies is not exactly remarkable; it is poetic, intelligent and self-assured, and above all, enjoyable. It leaves one confident that this band has a truly groundbreaking album in them somewhere. Eric J. Iannelli
AIDING AND ABETTINGApril 2005Dallas OrbiterMagnesium Fireflies(Princess)There's something about Minnesota that seems to inspire kids to play uptempo, off-kilter music. Think about it; even the most famous musical denizens of the Twin Cities are considered weird, if not demented. And hell, anyone who would call an album "Magnesium Fireflies" can't be all well.That's cool with me. Dallas Orbiter does depart a bit from the formula I described above. While the songs here are decidedly off-kilter--trending somewhere between straight up psychedelia and simple dementia--the boys aren't afraid to be contemplative when necessary. Always, though, with an attendant boot to the head.These boys aren't weird for the sake of being weird, though. There's a method to the lunacy. The songs make more sense than the sounds that make them up, if that makes any sense at all. Sometimes it helps to be able to assemble a song after it has passed, but hey, isn't that exactly the sort of band music critics love?Of course. Dallas Orbiter doesn't make things easy for its listeners. But it does reward the adventurous with a journey that is well worth the fare, one that improves in value every time you take it. Get lost. And don't come back until your head has been rearranged.
SATELLITE'S GONEAt least a year has passed since any local band of note has tried to be Radiohead, so space-rockers Dallas Orbiter might be able to draw a decent crowd to their CD-release party tonight at the Uptown for "Magnesium Fireflies," their third album. Actually, the CD has less of the Thom Yorke kind of paranoia and more of a smiley, bubbly, cosmic feel (see: Grandaddy), especially in the charming would-be single "Arise." Its best track, though, is a swirling, 12-minute, lost-in-space tune called "The Kids," which closes out the eight-song collection on cloud nine (or is that "Plan 9"?). Chris Riemenschneider
Dallas OrbiterMagnesium Fireflies
Dallas Orbiter is a Minneapolis band that will be experimenting with modern space rock one minute and deliver you a pop gem the next.
On the bands third record, Magnesium Fireflies, the pop gem is Arise. Standing alongside that perfectly crafted pop are songs such as the passionate opening experiment Bed of Stars and the cool sounding fusion of 73rd and Something.
It is talent and grit like this that is causing Dallas Orbiter to generate considerable buzz on the Twin Cities music scene. -Karl Leslie
Dallas Orbiter spent a year building a home studio in the basement of drummer Greg Flanagan, and its new CD, Magnesium Fireflies, is proof that that time was wisely spent. The spacey, psychedelic set is full of intricately constructed jamming, but the layers and overdubs the band added while self-producing the record give Fireflies a real richness that should please fans of Miles Davis and More-era Pink Floyd. True to its well-chosen name, Dallas Orbiter plays music that sometimes floats as if its barely tethered to Earth, but theres also an undeniable pop sensibility at work, especially on the CDs first two songs, the Syd-Barrett-esque Bed of Stars and the straight-up anthem Arise. Opening acts for this CD release show include Radiohead-ish locals Umbrella Sequence and a solo performance by James Diers of the bands Love-cars and Halloween, Alaska.
PRINCESS RECORDS LISTENING PARTYFriday January 7th, 6pmDALLAS ORBITER, REDSTART AND REVERSE COWGIRL According to Einstein, matter and energy are essentially the same. Given the massive body of evidence presented on Magnesium Fireflies, DALLAS ORBITER employ E=MC2 as adroitly as any stiff who ever donned a lab coat. Luckily, for all its radiance, the Minneapolis-based quartet's (sic) debut album is radiation-free; its innumerable explosions exhilirating as champagne bubbles. Britpop elegance, garage rock torque, one of the nation's most colorful sonic palettes, melodies both hooky and exotic--the band's inspired intergalactic pop would be a big enough deal even if they didn't go around turning sound into light. Come, if you feel inclined, for the free food at this gala listening party for Dallas Orbiter and illustrious Princess Records labelmates REDSTART (Wendy Lewis, Michael Lewis, Jeremy Ylvisaker, Martin Dosh, and Greg Lewis). You'll end up staying for the music. Rod Smith
Dallas Orbiter, Umbrella Sequence, James Diers, Bridge Club (Friday, January 14th, 2004, Uptown Bar, Minneapolis) What is it about Minnesotans? When the temperature drops to 20 below zero, we all pile into our automobiles and hit the bars as if drinking too much might help us forget the weather. (Well, actually it does.) When I arrived at the Uptown Bar Friday night the club was already so packed there was a traffic jam in the entryway. The occasion? The Tinderbox Music Showcase, an event which I understand sold out in 2004. And it didnt look like tonights weather was going to dampen this years event in the slightest.I only got to hear opening band The Bridge Clubs final couple songs, but I can report that this trio, which got quite a reputation last year as being one of the new it bands in the Twin Cities, is forging their way on into 2005, still deserving their spot as stalwart rockers and scenester favorites. Quite a few fans were obviously on hand to see this always seemingly tighter garage rock band open up the nights music.Second on the bill was James Diers of Halloween, Alaska and Love-Cars fame. Diers set was nothing short of ethereal. Sometimes nothing can beat watching a lone and unassuming individual sonically captivating an audience. Diers played solo electric, at times accompanied by prerecorded drum and keyboard tracks (ostensibly the drum samples were of one Dave King, Halloween, Alaska//Happy Apple drummer, who was tied up over at the Cedar Cultural Center where Happy Apple was doing a CD release party. The Happy Apple show, incidentally, was also packed according to a report from one mobile music fan who had just returned from the West Bank.)Diers selections Friday night featured Love-Cars as well as Halloween, Alaska tracks, including Des Moines, (you know, the one that ends with that repeated 20 times around the block bit) which had a certain added intensity to it and drew much applause. It dawned on me while taking another listen to their debut disk today that Halloween, Alaska reminds me of Prefab Sprout because of a combination of Diers voice and Ev Olcotts production. (Paddy McAloons vocals with Thomas Dolbys production have a similar comforting immediacy.) Rumor has it there will be a new offering from Halloween, Alaska coming out on Princess Records sometime in March, 2005.Umbrella Sequence was up next after a short break. Ive seen this band maybe 3 or 4 times, and each show is different. Tonights seemed to stay pretty much right on course; it was tight and enjoyable, and I can see why this band continues to do well. Live, the Radiohead influence is almost more apparent than on their CDs, but theres nothing wrong with that. Grins of enjoyment from seemingly immer-backpacked keyboardist and vocalist Ryan Rupprecht always seem to give Umbrella sequence shows an extra ounce of added charm.For some reason, towards the end of the Umbrella Sequence set the audience dropped offa lot. My theory that people were leaving the Uptown to get to the Triple Rock to see Kid Dakota was disproved the following morning when I learned that the same sort of exodus was occurring at the Triple Rock as well at about the same time. So unless people were heading to some private party no one told me about, maybe they were actually going home to get under their blankets.Its too bad so many people left because Dallas Orbiter, the unabashedly geeky 5 piece Twin Cities space-rock band, put on a solid show to about a 60 percent full music room. Lead singer Mark Miller had this professorial Mork and Mindy era Robin Williams look going for him tonight in a blue and red striped shirt and spectacles hanging on the end of his nose---not your normal rock star getup to say the least. (The horizontal stripes got me thinking think this band might have oddly fit in at a band shell in The Village if the surreal British TV series The Prisoner had been filmed last year instead of the late sixties.) Dallas Orbiter played many songs from their new CD Magnesium Fireflies (Princess Records, November, 2004) and even a damn fine cover of Palmcorder Yajna by The Mountain Goats (You know the song, the one about the vedic ritual of self-sacrifice from We Shall All Be Healed with the twisted repeating line And the headstones climbed up the hills.) Miller has the perfectly thin and intense voice necessary to pull this song off well, though a friend also noted their version sounded a little like Roxy Music. Something weird about the mix made it almost un-listenable without earplugs (it sounded just fine with them in) that might have explained why many people moved to the bar-side of the club during the DO set. The set took a bit of a downward slide during its final thirdthe energy drifted a bit with a slow ballad (it might have the shimmering and slow Akron) and another song I did not recognizebut they pulled it out in the end with the spooky and grooving Bed of Stars, the opening track off the new CD, with its half step rising and falling chord progressions. David de Young
As this week's Triple Rock Press Update so matter of factly pointed out, "It's too cold to go sledding, so a rock show is the perfect prevention for cabin fever."
Of course there are many shows tonight, but I am torn mainly between two. Kid Dakota, Rob Skoro and the Ashtray Hearts are at the Triple Rock in what should be a triple whammy of a bill. The ever twisting and turning Steve McPherson promises a full report from that show.
I myself will be heading to the Tinderbox Showcase in hopes that their quadruple bill will steam up the windows of the Uptown Bar a bit. The bill features Bridge Club, James Diers (of Love-Cars and Halloween Alaska, The Umbrella Sequence, and Dallas Orbiter in the headline spot celebrating the release of their new CD Magnesium Fireflies on Princess Records.)
I'm excited to hear Dallas Orbiter live for the first time. Truth be told, I was not familar with the band until I received their new disk (their third release) in the mail a week or so ago. As musical guests on KQ Homegrown Sunday night, the band seemed willing to accept the frequent label of "intergalactic space rock" because the term is so nearly meaningless it gives them the freedom to do just about anything. The disk is at times funky, at times poppy, at times weird (like when the melody of the opening track "Bed of Stars" is co-opted by that tremulous sound Alexander Courage used in the theme from Star Trek and when phaser sounds erupt in the functional title song of the album, "Arise.") Despite its "space moments," the album is surprisingly down to earth, listenable and fun. Only a severely under-exposed ear will miss the strong Radiohead influence on tracks like "So Pretty."
Of course you don't have to take my word on any of this as you can preview the entire album on the band's website: http://www.dallasorbiter.com.)
Consider this my own "A List" or "Hot Ticket" promo piece for a show that has already been pushed by The City Pages, The Pulse and the Star Trib. What I'm really saying is that given the sub-zero forecast for tonight you might need a little extra assurance that you're headed for a sure-fire thing. This is it. David de Young
Especially impressed was I by that aforementioned group called Dallas Orbiter who got onstage with tiny flashlights fastened to their heads and played one piece - must have been an hour long or so - that seemed to be about the protean stew out of which life evolved. The only lyric in this synthy, rocky, chaotic stew was, my friend/date for the evening Leslie O'Leary (who actually enjoyed the music and recently lamented not having her name appear on Google hi, there, Lez) and I agreed after some confusion, "there are seventy-five million kinds of life." Sung over and over again, we got the point, and it augmented the message of the whole piece rather well. The lyric marked the high point of cogent "music" as most people understand it in an hour of otherwise disassembled, chaotic and maligned strangeness that somehow seemed to hold together pretty well as performance. I would not encourage people to listen to this set on headphones in a dark room with a flashlight tied to their heads on acid in a basement specifically. I would encourage them to come out and watch this band do their thing. The band jumped from saws to basses to keys to drums to instruments you couldn't quite make out in the dark. I liked it and might even give "experimental" music a second listen now that I've seen it with my own eyes. I might even find the Focus Quintet's members and watch them record eggbeaters grinding a bowl of toothpaste while their keyboardist plays only the black keys in all seriousness. It would be interesting to watch. Kevin Anthony Kautzman
The last performance I would see that night, although not the last performance of the festival, was Dallas Orbiter. As if photographing bands in the dark isn't hard enough, the only lighting this group would tolerate was a small flashlight bound to each of their foreheads. As millions of little LEDs joined those flashlights, the group began what seemed to be an improvisational piece. I've seen handsaws played before, and of course would always rather hear that than a shovel. But then Dallas Orbiter surprised us all by shifting away from random experimentation into hard-pounding rock, piercing whistles, and a star war's worth of electronic bleeps and pops. The rock jam continued like a rumbling train for several minutes until another improvisational interlude, and then again back to the pounding rock, the speakers barely able produce the noises being demanded of them.
The crowd loved it, and we were happy to leave the festival on such an optimistic note. Don't get me wrong; it kills me to think I was missing two bands, but exhaustion has become my enemy as my age has increased. To paraphrase the emperor in Amadeus, one can only hear so many notes in an evening, and as it was now approaching midnight I had been hearing notes for almost 12 hours. Sure the night had its ups and downs, but everyone's entitled to their own feelings about what worked and what didn't. To those I've critisized, I would also restate that such a personal expression is inevitably not going to be appreciated by everyone. My opinion is mine alone. Zak Metz


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EA Sports just released the first gameplay footage for the latest installment in their NHL video game series, NHL 13.
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Although the Davis family had established a farm and bred blooded horses on their Kentucky land, by 1810 the family returned to the Deep South. For a year they lived in Louisiana before moving to Wilkinson County, Mississippi. There, Jefferson Davis began his formal education at age five. Dissatisfied with his son's school, Samuel Davis decided to send his seven year old son to be educated in Kentucky. Davis entered a school of the Dominican Order near Bardstown and Springfield, Kentucky. After nearly two years in the Dominican school, Davis returned home at the insistence of his mother.
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A seascapes Painting is a photograph, painting, or other work of art which depicts the sea. Recent seminal use of this word in the UK: A combination of adjacent land, coastline and sea within an area, defined by a mix of land-sea inter-visibility and coastal landscape character assessment, with major headlands forming division points between one seascape area and the next. This approach to coastal landscape planning was developed jointly by Government environmental bodies in Wales (UK) and Ireland in 2000 to assist spatial planning for (at that time new) offshore wind farm developments. The resulting "Guide to best practice in seascape assessment", (Marine Institute, Ireland, 2001), have since been adapted and applied in Scotland (Scottish Natural Heritage, UK, 2004) and in England (Defra, 2005) and Wales (Countryside Council for Wales, 2007) for guidance to offshore wind farm developers and for carrying out spatial planning assessments.
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