![]() ![]() The forthcoming album entitled, "Invasive Species", also is written, performed, produced, and recorded by Hastings 3000 and slated to be released in the U.S.A. The debut album entitled, "A New Monster"was written, performed, produced, and recorded by Hastings 3000 and was released on Bare Ass Records (Kailua, HI) and distributed in Japan by Chicken Katsu Records (Okinawa, Japan) in 2010. Hastings 3000 plays approximately fifty instruments live and in the studio. The show was a live performance utilizing a hologram projection onto billowing clouds of smoke. In 2011, Hastings 3000 used Skype to perform a cross-continental live performance from The Polynesian Cultural Center in Oahu, Hawaii to the legendary main room at First Avenue in Minneapolis, MN, USA. In 2010, while still in Fuck Knights, Hastings 3000 formed moving towards a broader spectrum of conceptual, visual, and audio live performance experience. Hastings 3000 was a founding member of the garage/punk band Fuck Knights (Munster Records-Spain, Crustacean Records-WI, USA, Big Action Records-MN, USA Ionik Records-NYC, USA). Stylistically, Hastings 3000 pushes for a balance of originality, and the irreverent stylings of 70's punk, 80's pop, and modern electronic. Other live performances may have twenty or more military uniformed people onstage doing choreographed movements set to experimental soundscapes with projected images. Live performances include deconstructing the "traditional" rock band, as Hastings 3000 often plays a stripped down, partially homemade drum kit, an electric guitar with a pencil, and vocalizing socially and politically conscious lyrics. ![]() Along with donning elaborate costumes, such as ironic extreme capitalistic businessman suits, often referencing the hypocritical aspect of excess, human consumption, and extreme capitalism. While deconstructing the traditional rock n' roll band, Hastings 3000 plays a stripped down partially homemade drum kit that he plays using both of his feet, hands, and voice through a distorted echo-plex with energetic stylings of 70's punk to 80's electro.Ī recurring theme is the gas mask, which hints at humankind's loss of respect for air, food, water, fire, and earth. Coupled with pounding tribal beats, lasers, 60's sci-fi samples, and socially conscious lyrics. Hastings 3000 is a one person conceptual rock show with a gas mask, guitar, and a smoke machine. Minneapolis' Hastings 3000 is a conceptual solo project that is entrenched in visual and sound. Pre-order 'Extinction 6' on tape or digitally here.For a select few, art and rock 'n roll performance is an obsession. ‘The Endling’ is one of the LP’s more sombre, light tracks one that seems to resign in its fragility and crystalline, organic sounds. It’s another engaging release from an understated and unique artist whose reputation is steadily, and rightfully growing. It’s morbid, jarring and all very real, but nonetheless, this album remains deeply enjoyable, with or without taking its context into account. This album presents a perspective genuinely lacking comprehension of the current state of the world and how we've let it get so far gone." “Instead, I felt as if I was a visiting body watching a society implode. ![]() "Last winter, during a period of intense mental isolation/alienation, totally consumed in the research for this album, I started to feel disconnected from humankind to an extent that I felt no-longer human,” he explained. It’s not quite hopeless, but it’s worn down. Amid the lush droplets of sound and warm backdrops there is a foreboding atmosphere. #Dj shadow humankind full#Though full of mesmerising sound designs, fragile melodic passages and rich ambience, there is trouble coursing through its 14 tracks. ‘Extinction 6’ is out on 16th November and, according to its press release, is “an ethereal exploration of waste, greed and ultimately the failures of our society”.Ī multidisciplinary artist and environmentalist, FitzGerald – who is including his surname for this release – has described the process behind the album as an intense one. Following a superb LP on one of our favourite labels, Local Action, Orlando FitzGerald has launched the New Info label with a mesmerizing ambient tape. ![]()
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