The Skaters say that the substance of their music is defined by the interplay of ideas and the transformation of themselves into characters while playing and while living and using the inner dialogue that comes with cognizing the symbols of the outside world as a ground for the music to stand. The music for them becomes deeply psychological because we are experiencing all these hallucinogenic sensations while playing. The “thing” that we think is a phenomenon can only be experienced through playing. The Skaters are from Southern California and consist of Spencer Clark and James Ferraro. They met in 2002. When asked about the purpose of their music, James Ferraro replied, “My life has been a serious journey to spread gnarly vibes. I often think about the sensation of catching a Frisbee and I think this sensation is the intersection for the fourth dimension. The fourth dimensional space not clearly seen sticking it’s face through from a section of space we cannot perceive. And the sensation points me in the direction towards seeing the true relation of things.” The other adds: The search for intake-out can flood with the imagining of another plane; with this second imagination a destination is not determined but thought of as possible, and the will that comes from imagining this whole experience to exist is limitless.
I love everything I have ever heard from The Skaters, and from James Ferraro’s project Vodka Soap. When I saw Clark perform as Vodka Soap many months ago, I was transfixed. It was beautiful and sonorous and weird and scary all at the same time. It was so fucking trippy I couldn’t believe my ears.
“The Skaters might already be a household name to some of you and if that?s the case I think you already know what to do. The rest of you might as well start with Crowned Purple Gowns as with anything else as it displays more of the kind of humming resonance, droning hypnotism and feedback-drenched ritualism that we’ve come to expect from these guys. When thinking about it, it?s truly amazing how shards of feedback and hot pools of distortion can sound this beautiful, if not even spiritual. Crowned Purple Gowns offers damaged extended sound sculptors, dusted sonic planes and corroded noise destruction that at the same time actually manages to be transportational and even meditative.” – Digitalis Industries
The Skaters
Crowned Purple Gowns
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“Yet another gorgeous chunk of musical murk from these Berlin based noisemakers. Not sure what they do or how they do it, but they manage to make tape hiss sound divine, and warbly defective recording equipment sound like it was meant to be busted. This latest 12″ is more of what we’ve come to love about these guys. A grimy, gritty dream world of dripping low end and thick sludgy ambiance. One side is completely vocal based it sounds like, with lots of moaning and coo-ing and mumbling and chanting and wailing and groaning and howling, all drenched in tape hiss and amp buzz and reverb and delay and whatever other effects seemed to be within reach, all of these disparate vocals get all tangled up into a weird swirl of sound that almost sounds like a bunch of dusty old 78s being played at once. The flip side is more standard Skaters fare, weird muted rhythms, mumbled vocals, guitar hum, synth buzz, snake charmer melodies, all sorts of rumble and warble and shimmer smeared into goopy soundscapes that crawl and ooooooooze. Packaged in a super glossy full color collage sleeve with hand screened liner notes on the inside.” – Aquarius Records
The Skaters
Dispersed Royalty Ornaments
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The Skaters
Receding Smokebath
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