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In the News (Sat 19 Dec 09)

  
  A Sound Tribe Sector 9 Site ...Sound Tribe Sector 9, STS9, STS 9, Sector 9, Sector9, Setlists, setlists, interviews, ...
STS9 enhances its music with a meticulously crafted melange of lighting, spatial, and cinematic effects.
STS9 is simply one of the warmest, most joyful groups one could imagine watching, and this warmth spills over into the audience, creating an interplay that defies description.
The music is lush and intricate, and compositions seem to develop lives of their own, feeding from and reacting to the participation of the audience.
www.angelfire.com /indie/sts9   (1374 words)

  
 Sts9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
album description : STS9 is proud to announce the release of Live At Home, a collection of 23 unreleased tracks created over the past 3 years at home and on the road.
STS9 is one of the most original, boundless, and spiritually guided bands in the universe...
Science Funk Jam Monumental : (sound tribe)Sector 9 is the best jam band that I came up to in recent light years.They have this kind of space travel journeys through the musical expression...
music.mysic.com /Artist/Sts9   (368 words)

  
 Tickets for Sound Tribe Sector 9 [Austin, TX] at LA ZONA ROSA - FRI APR 8 2005 * 8:00PM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
STS9 have taken their passion for playing live instruments and married it to a love for intricate composition and sound exploration.
STS9 have as much of an affection for samplers and computers as they do pianos, drums, bass, and guitars.
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premier.startickets.com /specials/LZR09APR05.htm   (2092 words)

  
 Cincinnati CityBeat : 02/09/2005 : 9 to 5
STS9 rises above other similarly beat-driven faux-Jazz projects by humanizing the technology and using the computer aspects of the production process as a compositional tool rather than as a tacked-on afterthought.
Combining organic live recording with sampling and an intense approach to layering and structuring, STS9 has fashioned a studio tactic they describe as "sonic sculpture." It's an apt description, although "sonic collage" could be equally appropriate terminology.
STS9 is proof positive that technology and soul can work together in a single musical form without sacrificing the personality of either in the process.
www.citybeat.com /2005-02-09/music.shtml   (1063 words)

  
 Sound Tribe Sector 9: Modern Artifact
On the contrary, they are a band that readily and happily goes against the grain, choosing to rebel against categorical constraints and pave their own path by not being afraid to include all of music, and its glory.
STS9 is a band that is constantly evolving, that is perpetually undergoing transition.
STS9 is not a jam band, but they sure can jam.
www.glidemagazine.com /articles155.html   (1237 words)

  
 Sound Tribe Sector 9 - Free Music Downloads - MP3 Downloads - Download.com Music
Instrumental quintet Sound Tribe Sector 9 (STS9) creates live, improvised electronic music that makes use of jazz-fusion, downtempo, drum 'n' bass, and other vibrant, abstract sounds found floating through the air around their hometown of Athens, Ga. Polyrhythmic and multilayered, STS9's compositions are full of hidden subtleties and built around endless waves of rhythm.
STS9 have defined a songwriting style that approaches composition through sound sculpture.
Look for STS9 to be touring throughout 2005, with special guests joining them during their ARTiFACT tour in the spring, followed by international touring further into the year.
music.download.com /soundtribesector9/3600-8362_32-100615316.html   (662 words)

  
 nuvo.net / STS9 creates sonic frenzy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
STS9 opened with “ReEmergence,” a blossoming aura of electronic tranquility, combined with the tonic grooves of bassist Dave Murphy, drummer Zach Velmer and percussionist Jeffree Lerner.
Listening to STS9 on CD is great, but seeing them live and in concert is a completely different experience.
In a world that continues to be swallowed up by the great corporate monster, Sound Tribe Sector 9 stands up as one of the leaders of a movement that tries to bring life back into music.
www.nuvo.net /archive/2005/02/23/sts9_creates_sonic_frenzy.html   (416 words)

  
 livetronica dot net - Sound Tribe Sector 9 exclusive interview   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
STS9, its a total mystery, we're not even sure where it came from.
STS9: Doing what we do is just a good platform to share what our friends are doing.
STS9: Lately everday is different, hough it consists mostly of music somehow.
livetronica.net /sts9.shtml   (755 words)

  
 WKDU Communique   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
STS9 was up next, and it was clear who most of the crowd was there to see.
STS9 had a very elaborate stage setup, with a keyboardist, two drummers (one on bongos and another on a traditional drum set), a guitarist, and a bassist.
STS9 started out inoffensively enough, but their songs didn’t really do anything for me. The drum set drummer did a fantastic job of keeping the fast beats, but I can’t understand why STS9 would want to make the really lame guitar lines the center of their music.
www.wkdu.org /communique.cfm?article_id=88   (694 words)

  
 Crazewire: "Live at Home" with STS9
STS9 is currently working on its first studio album in three years, which Live at Home is not.
Live at Home is not strictly for fans of STS9, but for anyone open to exploratory music.
These are the instruments that the band has chosen to use, and like the members of STS9, each is equally important.
www.crazewire.com /features/20030902308.php   (524 words)

  
 Crazewire: The G4 as a Musical Instrument, Sound Tribe Sector 9
More of a collective of artists then a band, STS9 meshes electronica and live trance into a style of music that attracts both noodle-dancers and rave-kids.
STS9 makes its music available online at music on demand services like DCN, Rhapsody and the band�s own fan-based digital archive, sts9.fm.
While audience taping isn�t unique to STS9, by providing free streams of nearly every show mere days after the performance, that band is using the Internet in ways that are unprecedented to make its music accessible and in most cases, free to fans.
www.crazewire.com /features/20030508228.php   (4074 words)

  
 Vox Magazine ----Electronic energy: Ride the groove of Sound Tribe Sector 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
STS9, based out of the San Francisco and Santa Cruz areas, is like an extended family.
Columbia resident Seamus McKenzie, who has been a fan since 2001, has seen STS9 in concert nine times and says the intense connection with the audience is one of the most important aspects of the band’s performances.
Kevin Triplett, a Columbia resident and STS9 fan for three years, says he has been e-mailing the group for more than a year asking them to visit Columbia.
www.voxmagazine.com /story.php?ID=6659   (710 words)

  
 JamBase | STS9 HIT CRITICAL & COMMERCIAL ACCLAIM
On February 8, 2005, STS9 released ARTiFACT, their first studio album in five years, to a barrage of commercial and critical success.
STS9 have been steadily climbing CMJ's Top 200 chart for four consecutive weeks, currently at #83.
Hot on the heels of the band's most successful touring year ever, the band's 2005 tour has reaped even greater success with ticket pre-sales at the highest levels in the band's eight-year career and sold-out shows nationwide including Denver, two nights in Chicago, two nights in New York, and Washington DC, among others.
www.jambase.com /headsup.asp?storyID=6289   (602 words)

  
 Aspen Times News for Aspen Colorado - Arts and Entertainment
Sound Tribe Sector 9 - commonly known as STS9 - is best known for their all-instrumental live performances, which, combining the sonic palette of techno and the looseness of jam-jazz invite high-energy dancing.
When STS9 was formed - as a trio of childhood friends Velmer, Brown and Murphy - the focus was on tightly structured songs.
For STS9 and its contemporaries, the issue of combining real-time instrumentation with modern effects is a constant challenge and source of creativity.
www.aspentimes.com /article/20050203/AE/102030004   (661 words)

  
 Pollstar -- The Concert Hotwire
The concerts draw devoted fans who are inspired to dance for several hours and some who make their own recordings of the jams.
After concluding a two-album deal with Landslide Records, STS9 is planning to launch its own yet-unnamed label, which will release an album of live recordings this spring.
In the meantime, STS9 is set to launch its next tour February 28th.
www.pollstar.com /news/viewhotstar.pl?Artist=SOUTRI   (986 words)

  
 Artifact
Supposedly, STS9 are wonderful on stage (I admit to never having seen them live) but this review is based on the album in question and not on the group's direction or capabilities beyond the studio.
I've seen soundtribe play live and they're great, but this cd is a true representation of the band's talent, creativity, philosophy, and direction...which is forward.
STS9 has defined a new genre with their latest studio work: Elevator Trance.
www.elipsiselectronics.com /B0007GAEK8/Artifact.html   (1314 words)

  
 STS9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As an Alliance, we are excited to announce that in 2005, we will be working to enhance the way we come together with the STS9 Community.
We at STS9 know every one of our fans that has the resources to contribute to our food drive tour will, and we thank you for your support in the effort to end child hunger in the United States.
The Conscious Alliance is a grass roots organization out of Boulder, Colorado that is working to help feed the hungry in communities all across the United States.
sts9.com /info.php?i=14   (637 words)

  
 nuvo.net / STS9’s organic poetry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
With their innovative use of computers, musical instruments and positive vibrations, the California-based quintet produces a unique environment of creative expression that is inspiring and uplifting.
Despite the absence of lyrics, STS9 speaks in a fluid, poetic language.
NUVO spoke with STS9 drummer Zack Velmer recently about the new disc and the group’s philosophy.
www.nuvo.net /archive/2005/02/09/sts9s_organic_poetry.html   (652 words)

  
 STS9 Release ARTiFACT To Mass Critical And Commercial Acclaim @ Top40-Charts.com - 40 Top 20 & Top 40 Music Charts from ...
Hot on the heels of the band's most successful touring year ever, the band's 2005 tour has reaped even greater success with ticket pre-sales at the highest levels in the band's 8-year career and sold-out shows nationwide including Denver, two nights in Chicago, two nights in New York, and Washington DC, among others.
The ARTiFACT tour continues throughout the spring (see dates below) and STS9 will be participating in this year's Bonnaroo Festival and as a highlight at this year's Winter Music Conference.
XLR8R coins STS9 as "one of the most intriguing, innovative outfits around." Relix magazine raved about ARTiFACT by stating, "Songs shift and blur like sand dunes, rising into gorgeously curved drifts, then softly crumbling into their ghostly components.
top40-charts.com /news.php?nid=13925   (606 words)

  
 Sound Tribe Sector 9: Snowmass, Boulder & Denver, Colorado - February 3-5
A nice take on “STS9” followed, as did a rough, but forceful “Open E.” Highlighting the second set would be “Somesing,” one of the most electronic feeling tracks off Artifact.
This tune signifies a darker side to STS9 that’s arisen over the last year, a side that pushes the sound in a more progressive rock direction.
For three nights, STS9 brought the heat to the state of Colorado and showed the music world just why they are a band to look out for in 2005.
www.glidemagazine.com /1/reviews666.html   (801 words)

  
 STS9 Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Live At Home, a collection of 23 unreleased tracks created over the past 3 years at home and on the road.
Though distinctly STS9, listeners will find the band embarking on a new musical exploration.
Seasons 01 is an adventure into smooth sonic layers and rhythms of live drum-n-bass, jungle, house, funk, and jazz.
sts9music.com /store/web/music.jsp   (284 words)

  
 FriendsOfCheese.com - incidents   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The first set was a great treat especiall to hear some of the old school bluegrass we all know and love.
STS9 as the opener, sealed the deal in convincing me to fly from Minneapolis for the 2 night bender.
When the rest of STS9 and the Cheesers joined up, the contributions of each instrument, built the most rhythmic and peaking jam around.
www.friendsofcheese.com /Incidents.asp?Action=ViewIncident&IncidentId=2003090601   (1084 words)

  
 SOUND TRIBE SECTOR 9   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
And it doesnÕt hurt that STS9 evolved out of a musically diverse suburban environment, a multi-cultured environment where the members of STS9 were influenced by the numerous sonic strings the band would later weave into their own tonal tapestries.
Already drawing from complex polyrhythmic music like Afrobeat and acid jazz, STS9 realized that regurgitating elemental blues was not what they were meant to do.
From the start, STS9 has been a band concerned with flow, and the intense connection they establish with the audience invites a sort of reciprocal energy that influences everything that happens on stage.
www.irvingplaza.com /bands/bio.php?ID=1271   (898 words)

  
 STS9 Live in Tahoe :: August 23 :: Truckee Regional Park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The show will feature two sets of STS9 in the beautiful Truckee Regional Park Amphitheater, a spacious but intimate venue surrounded by trees and bordered by the Truckee River.
STS9 creates a fluid and energizing soundscape, an organic-electronic blend of jungle, ambient, dub and drum & bass with striking visuals that results in an exhilarating sensory experience.
STS9 blends breakbeats, liquid jazz, funk and even goth-industrial, genres which are seemingly far-flung but which meld seamlessly in the band's performances.
www.hsmusic.net /announcements/STS9040823.html   (297 words)

  
 STS9 Is Coming Too - Vermont Cynic - Arts
While Artifact is a departure from their more experimental live sound, it still captures a voice that is unique to STS9.
On Monday February 21 at Higher Ground you can be sure that you will hear some old favorites as well as some new material.
DB: As most of your listeners know, you all have a very diverse and eclectic style, can you name some artists and or albums that truly inspired you to become who you are today?
vermontcynic.com /news/2005/02/15/Arts/Sts9-Is.Coming.Too-867925.shtml   (589 words)

  
 Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
It is with tremendous sorrow that STS9 will be canceling their appearance at the Wakarusa Festival due to a death in one of the band members’ family.
Our fans have been unwavering in their support and loyalty throughout our entire career and we cannot put into words how much we appreciate it.
STS9 almost defy categorization, having merged a variety of influences into a unique sound that people seem to have a hard time pinning down.
www.wakarusa.com /2005/musiclineup.asp   (2723 words)

  
 SYSTEM RECORDINGS WEBSTORE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
With their use of an array of electronic and acoustic instruments, STS9 have taken their passion for playing live to ever-growing loyal audiences across North America, Europe, Japan, and beyond.
Sharing the stage and with such acts as James Brown, Perry Farrell, Tortoise, LTJ Bukem, Telefon Tel Aviv, the Roots, Blackalicious and Ozomatli, STS9 are unbound from musical labels, genres, or stereotypes.
With the release of their new studio album, ARTiFACT, STS9 have chosen to take a complete hands-on approach, producing and arranging all of the material them-selves and releasing it through their 1320 Records label in conjunction with System Recordings.
www.systemrecordings.com /store/product_info.php?products_id=141   (317 words)

  
 STS9-Hapas Night Club South Maui - powered by Hula Tickets
STS9 continue the Maui party with this larger club
Don't miss this 2nd and last show before the band flies to Oahu for 1 last show on their way back from Japan Tour.
jam grooves, STS9 play long party shows that always rock the house, #1 Itunes live electronica.
www.hulatickets.com /evinfo.php?refnug=jam&sid=&eventid=9029   (100 words)

  
 Home
Very much anticipated by any STS9 fan, I pre-ordered it as soon the actual release date was announced.
It all starts off with the intro track, which is used in live shows from time to time, called “Musical Story, Yes”.
It tell us how what you are about to hear is the musical story of STS9.
www.jammedonline.com /artifact.html   (514 words)

  
 Jomo Entertainment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
STS9 will be returning to Atlanta for two big outdoor shows at the Masquerade Music Park.
Fresh off the heels of three sold out shows at the Georgia Theatre in Athens, the guys in STS9 are working on assembling a line up of friends and special guests to make these shows a mini festival in and of itself.
On Sept 10 and 11 it's STS9 at the Georgia Theatre.
www.jomoentertainment.com /news.php   (13157 words)

  
 Act Profile for - NiteLite Event Planning   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Originally a trio from the Atlanta, Georgia suburb of Stone Mountain, Murphy, guitarist Hunter Brown and drummer Zach Velmer, friends since childhood, were eventually joined by keyboardist David Phipps and percussionist Jeffree Lerner.
The energy of the music moves back and forth between the players and the audience, connecting concepts of time and space into a sort of musical “happening.” And those who attend an STS9 show will agree—the band speaks to them, not at them.
Recently the band has been most interested in channeling their energy into their next studio album with the goal of conceptually presenting their ongoing range of interests.
www.nitelitepromo.com /act-profile.asp?act=234   (511 words)

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