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Sometimes ACIDplanet.com ® delivers a true remix crowd pleaser. This is one of those times. Take a little of all your favourite remix contests and mix it together, you’ll end up with Ready Fire Aim.
The band offers up “So Fine” for your penultimate remixing experience.

About the Band

Yahoo! Music, “Top 5 Under-The-Radar Albums You Need To Hear”:

"This Changes Nothing is not your run of the mill trip-hoppish endevour. Instead the duo mix rock instrumentation and at times sound on par with some of the best Depeche Mode tracks ever recorded. The CD is absolutely danceable and infectious, but it does something only a handful of electronica acts can accomplish -- it also works as a pure pop album. If you're a fan of Depeche Mode or Erasure you must make a point not to miss this release, you'll thank me after you click that big round Play button."

A collaboration between singer, poet, author, actor and political commentator Sage Rader and DJ/ producer Shaun Morris (AKA Stakka), Ready Fire Aim have come up with a stealth concept album. RFA’s debut release, This Changes Nothing, conjures shades of Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, The Postal Service, Jane’s Addiction, and even Pink Floyd, but with a twisted, hyper-processed and hypnotic sound that truly sets them apart. And you can dance to it.

From the creepy opening strains of electric violin squeezed and squelched through a phalanx of effects pedals on "End of Over,” to the Reznor-esque clipped beats and crackles of "Lush But Dark,” the album is a raucous journey through electronic beat styles and modes of signal manipulation, often harking back to ‘80s Brit synth pop, but also conjuring the dystopic dreams of a music from the future. Vocally, Sage runs the gamut from gravel-voiced romantic with a dark secret ("Happy Love Song”) to caterwauling champ who could give Perry Farrell a run for his lucre ("I Would for You.”) Lyrically, he tackles topics ranging from relationships long past their prime (on the club-funky anthem "Beautiful Thing”) to backroom jockeying for power (the rocked-out "Laff It Up”).

Sage first got into music through the violin, which he picked up as a child while living in London. Then in high school, he studied violin performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, under the tutelage of Stephen Clapp, now the Dean of the School of Music at Julliard, before chucking it all to roam the earth. Along the way, he became a poet (he was reviewed by The Guardian as the "Michael Moore Of Poetry”), writer and actor, grabbed a choice role in the film Beyond The Ocean (nominated for the Sundance Grand Jury Prize), publishing an illustrated confessional called Sex Drugs and Sunday School and performing his poetry and political stand-up in venues around the world. Sage has shared the stage with Bob Geldof, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti in such venues as BBC One, BBC Radio, UK Channel Four, The Brighton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, and the Sundance Film Festival.

Shaun "Stakka” Morris grew up in Brighton, England, where he began DJ-ing at an early age. As a fan of everyone from Jean-Michel Jarre to Just-Ice, he developed a wide-ranging palette and eventually got into making beats of his own just as acid house and big beat were giving way to London‘s hardcore rave scene and, eventually, drum ’n bass. He adopted the name Stakka and teamed up with Keir Tyrer to produce a string of progressive dance tracks for the Liftin‘ Spirits label (as Stakka & K. Tee), while also working with Nathan Vinall under a litany of aliases. Stakka has spent an average of about 12 hours a day in the studio for the last 15 years, yet somehow found the time to be a principal at Deaf Dumb + Blind Communications (the label that signed Fujiya and Miyagi in the U.S.); work on his own sample library company called Digital-Redux; as well as do sound design for production companies (commercials, documentary, film, etc.) After moving to New York in 2002, he and DJ DB began collaborating as Ror-Shak and released an album, Deep, in early 2007.

MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/readyfireaimnyc
Webpage: http://www.rfasociety.com

Tips

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