Artist description A process of audio sampling, mixing and matching into audio collage, writing and recording parts. Musicians today are more music processors than anything else. You get to try out hundreds even thousands of combinations to craft the perfect track. Collaboration is two guys sitting at the audio desk and letting their imaginations fly. The music reflects our mood and passions at the time: West Coast Hip Hop, campy (bad!) science fiction, genre-bending and genre-blending forms of jazz and urban (Dance/Trance/Techno) music. Above all, we wanted to present what’s possible. We wanted to fill a void in what is available to the music-loving public. We wanted to take a 21st century audience on a journey, and leave them uplifted and cleansed. We wantedto make the greatest album of the 21st century to date, if not of all time. Spiritual meaning? Perhaps. I think that primarily we wanted to do something that would be constanly interesting, even fascinating. There is so much boring, predictable music out there. We wanted to do something different, while remaining true to ourselves. We did this for our own amusement. We figured that if we were pleased, that other discriminating listeners would also dig it. Everybody’s looking for meaning. We took down the barriers. We would have no musical barriers.

Music Style Progressive electronica, hip-hop, trance, techno, ambient, house

Musical Influences Air, Pink Floyd, Jean-Michell Jarre, TuPac, Trance, Orbital

Similar Artists Pink Floyd, Jean-Michell Jarre, TuPac, Air, St. Germain, Moby, Village People, FSOL, Enigma, Aphex Twin, Orbital, Everything But The Girl, Propellerheads, Future Sound of London, Trance, Orbital

Artist History ORIGIN OF THE TITLE: IMAGINING MANDOLINS...The phrase comes from Commander J's Manifesto, the ralling cry for the resistance (the freedom fighters). In the part of the Manifesto where he details his plan, he acknowledges it is ambitious, and writes: "You might be imagining a Death March at this point, when it would be a hell of a lot more productive to be imagining mandolins."The phrase catches on and becomes the name of the mission, not unlike Operation Desert Storm.Operation Imagining Mandolins (or I.M. to insiders) also has the added effect of sounding like the most positive affirmation that can be made: I AM. It symbolizes pride, identity, being, resolve.Some historians consider it a positive by-product of the Manifesto. Others argue that it was by design--and credit the brilliance of Commander J.

Group Members Randy Jones, original Village People cowboy (YYYY…MCA), has a new SciFi-Electronica CD, Imagining Mandolins (produced with partner Will Grega). It can be heard in its entirety at Jones’ web site (www.randyjonesworld.com).The CD explores a range of Electronica styles from Techno, House and Hip Hop, to Trance and Ambient, with whimsical science fiction elements scattered throughout. The duo claims the music was channeled through them, and is an alien artifact that describes the origin of the human species after an invasion by an alien race upon our planetary ancestors. There is a tie-in to Jones’ web site that reveals and expands upon the story, in much the same way the “Blair Witch Project” web site amplified the film of the same name. Grega and Jones are partners in Pop Front Productions, a New York City-based entertainment company. Randy Jones’ performance history includes performing the classic Village People hits “YMCA,” “Macho Man,” and “In The Navy,” as well as starring in the 1980 film “Can’t Stop The Music.” He has appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, amassed 65 gold and platinum albums and singles, sold over 50 million records, and won an American Music Award (1978). Jones is the featured narrator on the recently aired “E! True Hollywood Story: Village People.”Will Grega is a New York City-based writer, composer and producer. For more details, please visit: www.randyjonesworld.com. The site is a full-featured multimedia site, with photo galleries, animations, MIDI files, and complete MP3 tracks from the new album.

Albums Imagining Mandolins

Press Reviews Flying Saucer -- "A very fun song featuring campy science fiction movie samples over a cool electronic groove." -- 'DaBrayne' Producer Picks: Electronic Music

Location New York City, NY - USA

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