Artist description The Buzz11 crew serves up - trippy unfiltered drums and stomach tugging basslines by the kilo. Subliminal boss Bob Sylvester delivers sublime mixes that are on a dub-house merry-go-round with a dose of lukewarm, uptempo, soft focus, melodic trance basis aka "everlasting repeat basis".

Music Style Pure unfiltered alternative, ambient , drum'n bass, jungle, urban, rock, pop, dance, trance, trip-hop, rap music.

Musical Influences Frank Zappa & the girl from the bus

Similar Artists Art of Noise, Apollo 440, Fatboy Slim, Sven Vaeth, Moby, Daft Punk, Dust Brothers, Acoustic Alchemy, Bourbonese Qualk, U2

Artist History Buzz11, very active and full of life, delivers stories of life in general & as a group they represent pure energy. Buzz11 can be traced back to 1992. The original line up of Buzz11 (formerly known as S.M.K.) recorded a demo tape entitled "Dream out Loud" in 1992. It was followed by two demos: "Carwashend" (1993) and "Sorbet" (1993). In 1993, Natural Sound Productions released their CD sampler "New Collection of Electronical Music from Luxembourg Vol. 2" including S.M.K.'s "Dream out Loud", "Carwashend" and "Sorbet". Bob spent the rest of the 90ties, experimenting (musically) & gaining ground. He appeared as a "guest" in side projects like the underground radio show "Chicken Stomach", trying his hand at producing other bands. In november 1998 Bob Sylvester asked friend and co-writer Ramon Mitarbeit to tackle the vocal department. With no time wasted, Ramon Mitarbeit released a limited edition EP "Irrespirable... " (named after the result of a hot spicy Indian meal). This soon came to be recognized as an independent classic and got praised on air plays as being a "very strange but cool song". In early summer of 1999 Buzz11 recorded / sampled some material, including the song "Ambino" with guest / fill, organist Greg Sylvester. The bands first full-length demo "Best of Electro Acoustic" was released in 2000. The same year Bob produced bands like "XXX" (a funraphardcorepunkrock band) & "TECHNOCOWS" (techno / trance). On 4th July 2001, Buzz11's released with newfound enthusiasm their first full length CD "Virtual Voltage", including "Cadaques" and "Ambino". For the "BLUE BASTARD RETURNS" CD, released in December 2001, chickn'MO revisited the "Buzz11 featuring RAMON MITARBEIT" track "Elle te sousse" ("She sucks"). In "Elle te sousse" Ramon Mitarbeit puts in the picture a story about dependence and tells the listener about THE compulsive addiction to the cigarette which SUCKS, or like he says "this terrible mistress sucks... (see press reviews below...). chickn'Mo rearranged a song written by Romain Junck (bass) / Willie Pultz (guitar) by adding some keyboards and Ramon's "Elle te sousse" vocal track. In early 2002, the first "Buzz11 featuring RAMON MITARBEIT" CD, called "Mangue & Vanille" was out. Besides the original version of "Elle te sousse", "Mangue & Vanille" includes also the track "Les actionnaires" ("The shareholders") that deals about September 11th, 2001. Ramons vision about these events begins with harmony before turning into tragedy. Finally, the only belongings left to the "Shareholders" are their shoes.... The "Les actionnaires" and "The Meaning of Life (Nitemare)" video clips were part of a Buzz11 "short-cuts" feature called "BuzZAP" shown on December, 20th 2002, at the "Sonic Faces" festival at the "Culture Factory" in Esch-Alzette. For Chrismas 2002, Buzz11 & "His Voice" Ramon released a special Christmas CD entitled "RAMON CHANTE NOEL" ("Ramon sings Christmas") including a revisited version of the French Christmas Classic "Petit Papa Noël". In "Petit Papa Noël" Ramon, as Father Christmas, complains about his exhausting job, running expenses and Christmas symbols... Finally, Buzz11 realesed their new CD entitled "ZORROPA" on 20th December 2002.

Group Members Bob Sylvester (Guests : Ramon Mitarbeit, chickn'MO, C. Eichman(NY)

Albums VIRTUAL VOLTAGE (2001) - BLUE BASTARD RETURNS (Radio ARA Indie Compilation - 2001) - MANGUE & VANILLE (2002) RIPPLES (AllCDsFree Indie Compilation - 2002)

Press Reviews D'Land 01/25/02, Jean-Michel Treinen about the Radio ARA "Blue Bastard Return's" compilation : "The real poets and creative artists are to be found in the category "Indies"..... Ramon Mitarbeit had an very pleasantly effect in our respectable ears. He convinced us with a Gainsbourg like meditation about cigarettes...." Tageblatt 01/02, RoK about the "Buzz11 /Ramon Mitarbeit" contribution to the "Blue Bastard Return's" compilation : The only track which we liked all over, comes from the so far unknown "Ramon Mitarbeit" which repects at least today's "musical spirit", like " Old School" and "Dirty", and presents almost like Afroman and Stefan Raab a zippy and relaxed "Smoker's song". www.disagreement.net, 2002, The Return Of The Bloe Baaschtert ...One of the most boring parts are Ramon Mitarbeit's spoken words about a cigarette.

Additional Info LUXEMBURGER ROCK LEXIKON by Luke Haas - EDITIONS PHI

Location Luxembourg, Gasperich - Luxembourg

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