Steve Barsotti is a sound artist and educator who lives in San Diego. He has ventured into various approaches to art making including photography, printmaking, performance, invented instruments, improvisation, object recording, location recording, phonography, electro-acoustic-pull-strange-sounds-from-everyday-objects, and there is sure to be more. The common thread has always been a close examination of easily bypassed details; image from angles that you would not normally see, sounds that can only be heard through contact mics and amplification, sonic qualities of materials that are used in everyday life. 

He was a member of the Seattle Phonographers Union, a field recording wielding group of improvisers. The Union is described as " moving beyond habitual experience of sound and uncover what is foreign in the familiar and familiar about the foreign; to explore what we hear and relearn what we know" They have been performing together for 20 years. (www.seapho.org)

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What's on?

Soon on release :

- First E.P 7 tracks by Myself ID 'Is Dead) Indie Pop Electro (FR) including 4 Remixes by Plastique de Rêve, Den Haan, Joris Mulen, Loki Starfish

So... Stay tuned !

LIVE/DJ/PRODUCER/MIREALRECORDS LABEL MANAGER

skYELEktrA began playing piano at the age of 5 & classically trained at the Conservatory of Toulouse, her hometown. She began her musical career on stage in the early 90s as a keyboard player in several punk-rock/garage bands such as Les Méduses, Aznia Bout Bout ', The Shifters, touring all over France. She is noted for her communicative musicality! Later on, she discovered artists such as Anne Clark, DAF, Bjork, and this fascinating & growing electro movement ... After buying her first "Groovebox" drum machine, she meets PG2M a famous collective that organises rave parties in the South of France & gets invited to join the team as the sound engineer & the editor of the band. This meeting will determine all her current carrier, giving her the opportunity to work alongside international artists Dj's, Producers, and Vj's : Mc Jamalski, 69db Dr. Floy, Arno, R-One, Sextoy ... These seven years of "life in the castle" near Albi (FR) took her to Japan for the Shanti Festival, at the Kube Club in Tokyo, in the United States (CA), where she perfects her knowledge  in becoming the "backup" keyboardist of several artists of the US Reggae Scene: Jamaican Reggae with Sister I Live (Dub/Reggae from the Barbados), Ismael & the Peacemakers & the Roots "stricktly" of Donny Rasta & the Roots Vibrations. Back in France, Skyelektra comes back to electronic edition & studio recording with PG2M for 3 albums, and begins her solo career in 2006 with an analog Live-Act "Opus 4 a Muse & a Friend » which gives birth to her first Electroclash E.P Bypass OP [Marasm/Toolbox/Music4VIP/Dad Records] collaborating with Dj Prisce de Cockroach (UK) & Mc Lopposum Déviant (FR). Will follow many remixes ... Over the years her style has turned into a more minimal Techno & her DJ sets have already rocked many dancefloors of Barcelona, ​​Zagreb, Berlin, Paris & Copenhagen. In 2009, she joins the Mondomix Media's team as a label manager assistant and pulls out the Party Admit It You Love Me Techno, inviting a great selection of artists: Mz Sunday Luv (Berlin/Get Physical/Bar 25/KNM), Luna Martinez (Barcelona/Fatales), Myself Is Dead (Paris/Crocodile) ...

In 2009 she relocates near Barcelona where she plays regularly with SaïkoTunes then creates the label Mireal Records that she currently manages.

This year 2012 marks the official start of the label and several musical collaborations should follow shortly...

 

Selected Discography of Skyelektra


2007 : Skyelektra « Bypass Op » – Music4VIP 01
 
2008 : Skyelektra - Model Z  Vinyl pictured couloured 12"– Marasm label
 
2008 : Skyelektra - Model Z  Vinyl pictured couloured 12"– Toolbox Records
 
2009 : Skyelektra « Dream On » – Music4VIP 02
 
2009 : Zarkoff remix Skyelektra « Down 4 a RDV »– Music4VIP 03
 
2009 : Skyelektra « Graffiti »– Music4VIP 04
 
2010 : Skyelektra - Saïko Tunes « Barcelona's Calling » – Music4VIP 05
 
2012 : Skyelektra  « He's Story » – Dad Records compilation Best of Electro Pop 2012

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