artist:
Free The Robots

"Santa Ana DJ/producer Chris Alfaro probably knows more about music than you do. He has applied his advanced knowledge of jazz, funk, rock, hip-hop and electronic music to his Free the Robots solo project, and the diligent studying and crate-digging have paid serious dividends. Call him an old-school avant-gardist. Free the Robots creates instrumental hip-hop based on obscure samples that are ingeniously spliced and juxtaposed for maximum friction and frisson. Check out the self-titled EP on Elsewhere Studios for proof. The first track is called “Listen to the Future,” and it’s not an idle boast. These tracks swing and funk and bliss out and aren’t afraid to wave their prog or Bollywood or pre-bop-jazz freak flags." -OC Weekly

track:
Unknown

name:
Chris Alfaro

age:
25

location:
Santa Ana, CA

describe your sound:
Take raw traditional jazz, add some Indian spice to it, blended with hypnotizing psychedelic sounds and progressive melodies. Dirty the drums up a bit with some heavy breaks and confusing rhythms added with a touch of electronic synthesizer blips and you’re on the right path. Only at this point you’re about half way to where Free the Robots is going. Sound direction is a fluid concept for this project, constantly changing from catchy up-tempo b-boy classics to melodic down-tempo depressants, to heavy beat driven epic masterpieces.

about the song
Fact:
This song was strictly made for the live shows only, never to be officially released. It was a part of 10 new songs that were made in a, one-month, span for my the show ever! (Free the Robots & Prefuse 73 @ the Low End Theory)

Story:
After booking a show with such a headliner, I got all stressed out because I was the premiering a sold out show with no plan, as a solo live act. I figured since I didn’t have the means or the time to formulate a crazy live set, I had to compensate somehow. I made about 10+ exclusive tracks in one month, put them in a DJ set accompanied by re-edits, noisy shit, condensed heavy parts and whatever I could do with two turntables and a Kaos effects pad. “Unknown” was one of those tracks and now the beast is loose!

How it was recorded:
Stressed out and scared for the show…needed to relax…put on an old Bjork record (Post) I hadn’t listened to in a while to chill out…heard her voice creep out “while I crawl in to the unknown…” no more chill time for me…the rest is history…

Mistakes:
Whoops! I’m accidentally releasing it now...

check:
Myspace.com/freetherobots
freetherobots@gmail.com