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Chris Bates is a bassist and composer from Minneapolis, MN. His new trio album 'Good Vibes' will be released April 15th. Chris' quintet Red 5 released the album 'New Hope' in the fall of 2012. In addition to Good Vibes and Red 5, Chris is a member of the Atlantis Quartet, Red Planet and Framework.  Previews and tasty bits of these projects are here on Soundcloud.

Found sound fanatics: rejoice! In Popcast, Pop Up Archive's house podcast, we excavate gems from Pop Up Archive's public audio. Recordings range from 1904 wax cylinder songs to NASA's interstellar rumbles. 

Listen as we resurface and reexamine forgotten sounds in this series of intimate micro-podcasts.

We're not the best, but we're pretty good.

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