Our very first Stratos Ensemble recording session with Jazz/progressive-rock, industry-legend bassist, Doug Lunn. The whole set is temporarily available as a free download. Just click the download icon.

Personnel:

Coco Roussel - drums
Daniel Coffeng - guitar and guitar synth
Dean De Benedictis - keyboard/synth and embellishments
Doug Lunn - fretless bass

(photo by Marcin Majkowski https://www.facebook.com/marcin.majkowski.16)

Live Set - 1st Doug Session - The Stratos Ensemble

The Stratos Ensemble is a progressive jazz band, the brainchild of producer Dean De Benedictis. The Fateless Flows Collective was an organization that Dean once ran, but now is simply the brand canopy that represents many of his extended projects, such as collaborations with original FF members and related material. Dean has decided to merge both his Stratos Ensemble content and his general Fateless Flows content on this particular SC page. 

The company name was originally the name of an electronic music collective Dean ran from 2003-05. From 2007-11 there was a plan to relaunch Fateless Flows as a record label, but it fell through. What remains are video channels on Youtube and Vimeo, and this Soundcloud page. Dean keeps his art and content coming, so he still uses the FF brand to release anything he works on that he also maintains rights control of, be it solo efforts or collaborative. Dean also has a separate SC page for his solo material.

Fateless Flows main image by Michael Jantzen and Dean De Benedictis. 

Dean De Benedictis' website can be found here:
http://deandebenedictis.com/

(Michael Jantzen's website:
http://www.michaeljantzen.com/Welcome.html)

Recreational:

Electronic Musician: 

No commercial purposes, 
only doing it for the love 
of this type of music.

Music for non-existing
Games & Movies!



DJ BASTART went solo in the autumn of 2007. 
Since 1994, Alexey Orlov – otherwise known as BASTART - participated in various alternative electronic and hip hop projects in the city of Kaliningrad. He was born in the city of Koenigsberg, which was previously in East Prussia and is now known as Kaliningrad in the Russian Federation. Alexey has been brought up adsorbing the energy produced by the mixtures of cultures from east Europe, Russia and Prussia. Since his early years, he has observed and been influenced by both individuals and their cultural musical heritages and so developed his own unique style. Experimenting in various styles with modern electronic music, he realised the existing frameworks did not allow for his expression  so he created his own style, working and traveling outside Russia, acquiring new knowledge and developing his own unique style. He has created essentially new sounds, ignoring previously set rules and stereotypes.

At present then, DJ BASTART  is a mix of all the genres and styles from Alexey’s own heritage and experiences. It is an experiment using a "cocktail" effect, which the majority of people would not even contemplate. His desire is to achieve a live sound on each track with the least use of synthetic or digital tools. Project DJ BASTART is a project of only one person - the composer and beat maker, DJ. Not subscribing to the "club" world, Alexey, as DJ BASTART, prefers to play his music using turntables, improvising continuously with compiled tracks and those of individual instruments, creating a very unique blend of sound unrivalled to other studio productions.


Проект DJ BASTART был создан осенью 2007 года. Начиная с 1994 года, Алексей Орлов - а.к.а. BASTART - участвовал в различных альтернативных электронных и hip hop проектах города Калининграда. Проект DJ BASTART - это смесь всех направлений и стилей, которые автору кажутся достойными и заслуживающими наиболее пристального внимания на данном этапе его творчества,такие как Trip Hop, Drum&Bass, Acid Jazz, Indietronica и т.д. Смесь, несущая в себе этнический и традиционный оттенок мест, где были взяты настроения, определяющие концепцию треков. Это эксперимент по приготовлению "коктейля", ингредиенты которого в принципе большинство людей предпочитают не смешивать. 
Это желание добиться "живого" концертного звучания каждого трека 
с наименьшим внедрением синтетики цифровых инструментов.
Проект DJ BASTART это проект одного человека - композитора, битмейкера , ди джея. Не являясь представителем "клубного" мира современного мегаполиса и не питая особенной любви к этой культуре, Алексей, тем не менее, подписывается как DJ BASTART, так как предпочитает играть свои произведения, используя проигрыватели, импровизируя с рисунками треков и минусов, предавая им отличное от студийного звучание.

Thanks for listening. J

http://www.last.fm/music/Jeffrey+Collins

Live Set - 1st Doug Session - The Stratos Ensemble

The Stratos Ensemble & Fateless Flows Music