| Thumbtack Smoothie doesn't easily
fit into your standard electronic categories, so don't try. Bring
a helmet and a microscope. This is fury unleashed, digits whirling
amid chunks of molten synthetics and the power of sound: thunder
from the depths and the heights of a code unknown. Through pulsations
of noise removed from the twelve tone system, relentless shadow
boxers emerge. Thumbtack Smoothie (a.k.a. Carl Coletti)
made the strange transformation from studio session/live drummer
(with bands like The Walkers, The Neighborhoods,
Ottmar Liebert and Luna Negra, the Jason Newsted-led
Godswallop and Pancake Circus) to experimental electronic
musician. His new album Fall Back reflects an artist
reaching towards the peak of his extremely weird powers. 8 years
ago, he was a drummer who stumbled upon the (then) Metallica
Bass-player's portable sampler. Today he is easily one of San
Francisco's boldest sonic alchemists. Naturally transferring his
percussive knowledge to drum programming and sound manipulation,
Thumbtack Smoothie creates his densely layered tracks by loading
his herd of samplers with insanely intricate sonic entities of
his design and then plays the sampler pads real time, improvising
and responding to the overdubbed layers of sound as only a drummer
of his caliber can. While tapping the sampler pads his waving
hands disturb infrared light D-Beam controllers that change the
parameters of the effects on his samples. This level of control
shifts him into the territory of insane puppet master in complete
command of his audio assault. This unorthodox style of track creation/performance
unhinged from traditional production methods allows Thumbtack
Smoothie's latest creation, the LP Fall Back, to
soar to places unexplored in the realm of experimental electronic
music.
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