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Flooting Grooves - Debut Album "Upsyde Downe" PEAK Records - March 2007
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LOOTING GROOVES
Debut Album
"Upsyde Downe"
Peak Records (PR012)
March 2007
Following the recent psy-stomping-night-time spree with the releases of "Peakopath" and Yab Yum's debut album "Nocturnal Emissions", PEAK RECORDS is now on a mission to explore the chill side of the moon…and is proud to introduce artist and producer FLOOTING GROOVES with his debut album "UPSYDE DOWNE".
Ethnic-ambient-groovy-downtempo-psy-progressive-cyber-chill-floaty-flooty would be a few words to describe FLOOTING GROOVES' music…if only words were enough to describe sound! His trademark is the well-crafted combination of these different styles, producing tight, funky beats, with a silver flute free-floating and gliding on top.
“UPSYDE DOWNE” is a psychedelic odyssey that travels from the land of beatless chill all the way to planet prog, in 8 tracks. Intelligent, trippy and organic, FLOOTING GROOVES’ album is the offspring of hard work, art work and heart work!
The emphasis is on groovy, airborne, spacey sounds that make you feel good!
Tracklist
1. Mbirations
2. Across The Threshold
3. Thermal Shock
4. Mystic Mountain
5. Wavelength
6. Birds
7. Zero Defect
8. Spacedrift
Mastered by Huby Sea & Vincent Villuis @ ultimae.com
Artwork by Titine Leu
Graphic design by Ajja & Tanina Munchkina
Artist profile
FLOOTING GROOVES is Pearce Van Der Merwe. Born in Cape Town in 1975, he grew up in South Africa and Italy, surrounded by music. Having a varied background ranging from classical to jazz, rock and related styles, he started playing flute after hearing Jethro Tull. Groups like Ozric Tentacles and Pink Floyd opened him up to Psychedelia and that's where his journey began!
A party in Amsterdam in 2000 changed the course of things forever, marking Pearce's introduction to the trance scene, with its addictive and infectious grooves! Another turning point was the meeting of like-minded musicians and beings Dan Symons (a.k.a Dymons) and Ajja Leu (one half of Yab Yum) who both played instruments and laptops. The initial meeting and jamming eventually led to Pearce moving to Switzerland to join The Peaking Goddess Collective (PGC): the organic chill and psy trance band formed in 2003 by Ajja, Dymons & Master Margherita, which combines laptops and synths with live instruments: Flute, Guitar, percussion, Bass & Fx.
After his beginnings with the PGC, where his flute found the perfect niche in which to evolve, he started to participate actively in the production of the collective's tracks. Soon, he was also producing music solo, finding his own sound and ultimately performing live: FLOOTING GROOVES! Ethnic, groovy, floaty and psychedelic, his music ranges from chill to airy progressive beats. His performances are always a success and music lovers greatly appreciate the sight of the live instrument fusing with machine production.
In the past two years, Pearce has performed live at a great deal of parties and festivals including the renowned Boom 2006 in Portugal and Soulclipse in Turkey, both with his FLOOTING GROOVES project and with The PGC. The trance caravan has taken him to South Africa, Switzerland, The Netherlands Portugal, England, France, Turkey, Ireland and Germany. And his 2007 agenda is filling up with new performances around the world.
Since 2004, FLOOTING GROOVES has released a number of tracks on Peak Records and Electric Dreams. He has contributed to virtually all the Peak Records releases with down tempo tracks for the chill compilations as well as chill intros and outros for the night-time compilations. More releases are to come!
2007 will be a busy year for FLOOTING GROOVES! He will be promoting "Upsyde Downe" his full-length debut album, as well as The Peaking Goddess Collective’s debut studio album, which is set for release in March 2007. May his trails be happy and fruitful, and may your trails cross his!
For more information on Flooting Grooves visit: http://www.myspace.com/flootinggrooves
http://www.peakrec.com
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Zoolog
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MercuryFall
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Posted : Mar 26, 2007 20:32
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XaMă CirKus aKa. ay-ash
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Psyberpunk
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Posted : Apr 12, 2007 22:23
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killer killer killer... looooooove it  
Great job Pearce! Cd turning in loop in the office since 3 days .. and still so much good "surprises" in your floating textures
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MercuryFall
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Posted : May 25, 2007 14:25
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Coming back to this topic to say how wonderful, well done and impressive this album is!
I can't stop listening to it, it is very deep and groovy at the same time, with the natural sounds of the flute, the gutitar or the didjeridoo on top of the electronica,
it is a MUST HAVE!!
Go and buy it!
 V/A Floating Mirror - OUT NOW - with Celles, Midimal, Electrypnose, Melodix, Troll Scientists, Yab Yum, Gaspard, Ajja, Cradle of Beats! Info on
http://www.myspace.com/moonlooprecords
http://www.psyshop.com/shop/CDs/mol/mol1cd001.html |
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Slimseth
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Posted : May 26, 2007 04:45
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I need to get this one...
I have been listening to the national radio Couleur 3 the other day and they played a really killer sound... it was like 7pm or so...
The track was real real killer... and then they say track by Flooting Groves... at that moment all came clear to my head... I need your album Pearce...
All the best to all@peak
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive music!"
Kristian Wilson - former CEO Nintendo Corp. |
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Stregone
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Posted : May 26, 2007 15:02
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HEy Pearce very nice album 
I enjoy a lot
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kukan-dub-lagan/ItaiTaiko
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Posted : May 26, 2007 15:33
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my best to pearce
very nice album
cool flow
cheers mate
many respect from israel
ps-snir also think it is great
Check out my music page - free music , new style and more :) |
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DJ Milosz
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Posted : May 26, 2007 23:26
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Very impressive dbeut album. Will be listening to this for a very long time to come for sure |
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le barde
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Posted : Jun 15, 2007 01:47
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"Very impressive dbeut album"
+1
i can say it's enjoyed in a lot of places ! |
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