Artist description If music be the euphonious arrangement of sounds in time to fill the void of silence, then Concept-D may truly be said to be a group of adept composers who do not idly interrupt the cosmic quiet. The four members of the San Diegan ensemble, Chad Tuthill, David Butterfield, Edgar Alminar, and Mike Joseph, had creatively collaborated and played together in one form or another for years before formally uniting under the name Concept-D in 2000, and have since been ceaselessly directing their collective energies toward the contrivance and refinement of bold, inspired music. In addition to artistic ingenuity, the four have in common a profound and singular distaste for labeling and categorization, owing to the odious imposition of boundaries and preconceptions that invariably come with them. Consequently, their music is quite unique and cannot truly be said to belong to any particular genre or to exemplify any one style: like its architects, the music lives in defiance of classification and limitation, and no solitary descriptive term suffices. One aptly thorough and elaborate description that has been made of their musical melange is funky groove hip hop, jazzy space rawk, and ambient psychedelia. In addition to the aforementioned, another remarkable quality of their music is that for all its novelty and atypicality, when one begins listening to it for the first time, it seems almost immediately fond and familiar - as though it were a treasured old favorite that has lain within the deepest well of remembrance for time immemorial. In spite of this distinct impression, however, upon careful consideration, one inevitably arrives at the paradoxical conclusion that one has never before heard its like. The inexplicability of this phenomenon is but another small part of their mystique. Concept-D is quite simply one of the most exciting, refreshing, and aurally stimulating tetrad of music makers to grace the waning San Diego cultural scene today. If the first two albums are any indication of what is yet to come, their future work promises to be agreeably replete with all the enriching musical innovation and conceptualization that one has come to expect from these surpassingly talented artists. -Ryan Hawley - University of California, Riverside

Group Members Chaddy T - Bass Guitar/Vocals Mike Talls - Guitar/Vocals DJ GarGar - Turntables/Samples/Sax/Vocals Davey Squats - Drums/Percussion

Albums Conceptualistic Departure (2001) / Euphonious Arrangement EP (2003) / The Leading Cause of Cancer (Available Now)

Location San Diego, California - USA

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