Artist description Do you like good science fiction movies? Do you like intelligent electronic music? Then have a listen to F451. You may be pleasantly surprised! F451 Fuse Electronic music and "found sounds" with the worlds of Science Fiction. The result is an unusual form of audio sensoria! HSR says: "From the opening track you know you're on a one way trip to "Hardware Heaven" .... Thumping bass and rhythm combine with TV samples to act as a backdrop for a robotic vocal that 'sings' verse and chorus...The songs - are dramatic and memorable. As for me, I'm grabbing my leathers and hammer-drill, and I'm off to find me a Replicant."

Music Style synth/sample electronic

Musical Influences Front242/KLF/808State/Bjork/Fini tribe

Artist History It all started in a CD Listening Bar we dropped into while we were in Germany. We came upon a CD single entitled "101", by a band called "Finitribe", and it blew us away. While F451's sound ended up going in a different direction, listening to this track was an inspiration. Shortly after returning home a test song "Mortal" was Recorded to see how the seminal ideas that were perculating would work together in a recording. We had experimented with using computer generated speech synthesis in tracks recorded years earlier for a group called "Psyche" and were looking for a smoother more realistic type of synth voice to add to our mixes. It was coincidental that right at this time we found a "Speak and Spell" that a local store was giving away on clearance sale. The voice from this unit was perfectly suited to us and that was when speech synthesis was added to our music, and F451 was born.In 2000 the project was revived by it's producer and new tracks were recorded. Our MP3.com site contains most of the mixes recorded by F451.We hope you enjoy the mixes represented here. If you like, drop us a line and give us your positive comments. Thanks for your support!

Instruments Samplers/Synths

Albums F451

Press Reviews *HSR picked F451 as top act, and added: "F451 promise a menacing sound and deliver with a kick in the teeth and an approach that sets them apart ..." *Listen.com says:..."Hard, near-EBM beats pound mechanically, providing a martial base for the stiff melodies and blasts of synth."

Additional Info Buy the F451 Sampling CD for your Sampler! It contains F451's original sample library used on their mixes. Also, later this year, prizes will be offered for your best remixes of F451 songs!

Location Technopolis, Geo-front - Germany

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