BEWARE! Only the brave and strong of attention span will ever finish reading this bio!

I'm basically a mad scientist who, starting at the age of twelve or so, tried to apply a scientific epistemology to religion.
Eventually that lead me to a new goal of teaching philosophy.  I often waste precious time, writing music, researching the history of music, and trying to improve my humble recording setup.  That’s why I’m here. 
I'm obsessed with Industrial, along with early jazz and blues music.

I often imagine myself as a jazz musician who is trapped in a gothic-industrial universe.  The world is a harsh place made of concrete and grinding gears that force us to resist our sentiments and become part of the mindless assembly line.  The gods are toothless giants that enjoy pinching all natural men and women between their swollen and infected gums.  I’m a sentimental, and inexplicably hopeful, guitar player, who wishes he could sing, cutting through the soot filled air with melodies of humanity.
 That description sounds idiotic and pretentious.  If someone else described their music in that way, I might hit him or her in the face.  I’ve done it to myself before, and I seem to be earning it for speaking this way.
But I keep developing my music, as if it will one day be an honor to that description.
Consider for a moment that famous recording of Louis Armstrong singing "What a wonderful World." 
He grew up in a part of New Orleans that was so violent it was known as “the Battlefield.”  He began playing on the cornet. The popularity of the trumpet and cornet in the development of jazz was caused by the over abundance of those instruments left behind from the Civil War. 
The backdrop of his career is the inhumane treatment of his parents under slavery in the U.S. and his own struggles having been born in the aftermath.  The artifacts of war and rang through the air. Jazz musicians picked up the pieces and did the best they could with them. 
Armstrong's raspy almost monster-like voice, belts out "And I said to myself. What a wonderful world!" 
It was defiant and it was beautiful! 
That is my rationalization for the claim that there is an unexplored connection between Jazz and Industrial Music.   But I might just imagine that connection, because I’m a tool bag that should be punched in the mouth.

I think Industrial is about finding beauty in the horror, and I think Jazz and blues were about beauty from the horror as well. 

Some industrial musicians grew up looking at the Berlin wall and knowing they had family that love and cared for them trapped on the other side. They had to resist that love and give into the circumstance that forced them to resist those sentiments.  The machine would force them to be something other than what their natural sentiments would have made them.
 
Sometimes I imagine my music growing in the direction of an extremely disturbing musical that takes place in a dystopian New Orleans, or Chicago, or some other city associated with the history of Jazz. 

Again, that sounds silly and pretentious, so I'm tempted to punch myself in the face.

Then the plot of the musical involves a musician who gains a religious like following.  The dominant religion at the time opposes moral sentiments such as "compassion" other than in situations where acting on compassion involves a gruesome twist. 
So, even when I write music, I fail to escape my urge to write about philosophy. 
So again, I probably should punch myself in the face. 

I don't feel my music can be performed correctly without a live band.  But until I learned how to write in notation well enough or finish meticulously recording each individual track, I'm not sure how to describe it to other musicians. 

To get down to it, if you are like me, and have a project that you should probably get punched in the face for, maybe we can exchange time and help each other working on our projects.
(I will not be accepting punches in the face at this time.)

Currently, I've been working with <A href= "http://soundcloud.com/daring-danielle"> Daring Danielle, </a> on her Industrial Cello project.
But she does not deserve a punch in the face.
 Unlike me, she is a nice person.
She also has natural talent that emphasizes my deep inferiority. 

P.S.  Before I would be willing to meet with anyone for collaboration I must first confirm that neither you will kill me, nor I will kill you.

Can techno-bebop-metal-fired instrumentals co-exist with vocal tunes inspired by the madcap geniuses of ‘60s pop? What if you added ambient soundtracks a la Morricone/Fripp and clavinet-singed funky blues from the P-Funk playbook? Top it off with acoustic ballads where smiley melodies camouflage bitter lyricism about broken love, often rendered in off-beat tunings, and you sorta begin to complete the recipe.

They can and do on “Sketches of Spam,” the 16-track, 69-minute, genre-surfing debut release from Spaghetti Eastern Music (Bad Egg Records, 30003), the solo project of New York City and Hudson Valley-based guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Sal Cataldi. 

Cataldi’s much-varied sound is the product of an insatiable musical soul and a record collection rivaling the Smithsonian’s.  This debut album is an hour-plus journey through contrasting moods, with instrumentals inspired by 70’s Miles, Krautrock, Ennio Morricone, Bhangra, Fripp & Eno and ECM’s icy guitar great Terje Rypdal giving way to bare-bones acoustic vocal tunes – ones oft anchored on unusual tunings, with narratives that chart the course of difficult loves, in styles that range from Brit Folk to Bossa.

Spaghetti Eastern Music has received consistent critical raves, for live performances and the selective release of early mixes of works now fully realized on this debut disc 

Time Out New York writes: "Cataldi's largely instrumental, Eastern-influenced jams are infused with some delicate guitar work and hauntingly moody atmosphere." Newsday adds: “Mad scientist-guitarist-keyboardist Cataldi brings da funk and throws it in a mixer with electronica, bebop and blues.”  Called “truly excellent” by The Village Voice, “triumphantly funkified” by UPI, “a stimulating soloist” by The New York Press and “a jazz virtuoso without the need to prove it” by Aquarian Weekly.  East Coast Rocker/Rolling Stone writer John Swenson, the man who penned the liner notes to Frank Zappa’s “Shut Up n Play Yer Guitar,” may have put it best, “he’s the hippie guitarist playing to another dimension.” 

The authority on all things Beatles, The Beatles Examiner recently praised the album’s “ sharp soaring guitar jams” and called the distinctive cover of “Ticket to Ride,” “incredible, a wonderfully moody re-imagining” of the Lennon classic. Huffington Post dubs it “the perfect soundtrack for New York City life,” while WFMU’s Irene Trudel calls it “charming melodic and off-center,” a collection that is now enjoy airplay on radio including WFUV’s “Mixed Bag,” SiriusXM, WFMU, Oakland’s KALX,  NYC-area college station including WCWP and WHPC and many more.  The CD’s title is a lighthearted tribute to Miles Davis’ atmospheric classic, “Sketches of Spain,” one ripe for this digital overload and lunchmeat age!

Prior to Spaghetti Eastern Music, Cataldi performed and recorded with a host of notables in a number of genres, including the critically-acclaimed Knitting Factory faves The Hari Karaoke Trio of Doom (an industrial/ambient jazz dub extravaganza co-led with drummer D. Hitchcock featuring Eno/Brand X bassist Percy Jones), the avant-jazz/Afro-funk band Collector, Brooklyn’s comedy rockers Frank’s Museum, Lower East Side mainstays The Trachtenberg Family Slideshow Players and in the guitar orchestra of pioneering No Wave minimalist Rhys Chatham, on his “A Crimson Grail - Live at Lincoln Center” (Nonesuch Records, 2011).  He's been a familiar face in the club scene in New York, having performed at venues like CBGB, Galapagos, NorthSix, the Celebrate Brooklyn Festival, Otto's Shrunken Head, the Parkside Lounge, the Sidewalk Cafe and many more.

“Sketches of Spam” was recorded largely on the waves, at the studio aboard Cataldi’s home, The Houseboat Garlic Knot, in the waters off the Big Apple.  Additional recording, engineering and mastering was done at Parcheesi Recording Studios by Grammy-Award winning engineer Bob Stander (Hubert Sumlin, Patti Rothenberg), who also plays electric bass on two tracks.

DIGITAL WES 
OWNER OF DUB H PRODUCTIONS, 
DUB H PUBLISHING, & DIGITAL WES ENTERTAINMENT LLC 

MTV's Pop, Rock and Hip-hop artist Digital Wes, Producer, Engineer, Writer, Mixer, Master, former name Loca Mota & Harris, born on November 11, 1992 as Wesley R. Harris from Sacramento, California. Digital Wes is now a graduate of Musicians Institute of Hollywood, in the field of Audio Engineer, and highly admired by his teaching staff. Digital performs and produces several types of music such as pop, rock, dance, rap, hip-hop, techno, classical, and not limited to just one type of genre. He signed a promotional agreement with MTV for his music and his newly released album. 

He has plans to continue his studies in Post Production. He had an opportunity to mix music for singer Brian McKnight during the course of his studies. He was recently asked to join Shanica Knowles engineering team for the production of her music. In February 2011, he signed with ScrewURecords with a distribution through Universal Music, and has worked with artists like Wylout, Skandoe, Black Mobb, Dymin Dope, Illegal Mindz, Lil Wayne and Gucci Mane. Digital Wes is also the cousin of the music director mogul Myron McKinley of the RnB group, Earth, Wind and Fire. 

At a younger age he traveled, appeared and sang at several star-studded events with Children of The World Choir of Beverly Hills from 2005-2008, and met actors such as Sting, Natalie Cole, Robert Downey, the late Ed McMahon and Dustin Hoffman. 

In March 2010 Digital Wes joined the group 2-2-0 aka Second2None Ent. He introduced 2-2-0 to the music, they brought him the dance, together they formed an entertainment group with over 600,000 You Tube views with their astronomical talent. He was the lead vocal artist for the group prior to going solo in February 2012, when the group decided to separate despite their fan base and popularity. 

His first hit group single "Cameras With The Flashing Lights" produced by Digital Wes, was selected by Executive Teddy Sykes of DRS radio and Chris Woodard of Indie Urban Radio. 

In April 2010, he performed for the Tori Spelling & Dean Show at the Graff Lab, and took 2nd place at the La Showdown with 2-2-0, held at the La Convention Center. In November 2010 he took 2nd place at the Cali Dance Festival also with 2-2-0 held at the La Sports Arena for which he is still owed $3,000 winnings by a promoter who failed to pay winnings to placed winners. In February 2011, he performed at the Key Club for Daviello with Lloyd Banks as a dancer during the NBA All-Star Weekend. 

He completed video shoots with N3w Era, TruAce, The R3jectz, Nick Cannon's Wonder Broz, Young Sam and Wiz Khalifa. His younger brother played the role of lil Wiz Khalifa in the video titled “Aint Changing Me.” Digital Wes’s music commercial aired on Time Warner BET throughout the Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, Hollywood and the Antelope Valley. His first solo video shoot “I Go Fanatic” was just completed, and will be aired on BET, VH-1, MTV, Telemundo and several networks. He plans to shoot one video a month to complete his hit singles. 

He completed a school tour in 2011 with KNS Rockstar of Konfist Entertainment supporting the theme "Stop The Bullying" for Ventura County. He was recently named as an International Hiphop Artist by the CEO of International HipHop out of Detroit, and the promo artist for Fan Club International. 

He launched the first 2012 California Fair Tours featuring artists like Young Nephew, Shugga Shane Bcf, Young Skeet and Compton's Buck. He will be starting his solo 2013 California Fair Tour. He has an upcoming show at the Lancaster Clear Channel Stadium for Battle Of The Bands May 4, 2013, the Los Angeles Convention Center, May 11, 2013, and The Airliner opening with Spider Loc for Styles of Beyond June 28, 2013, Rising Star Music Awards July 20, 2013, the OC Fair July 27, 2013 at the huge Hangar, and an upcoming tour starting July 2013. 

He has completed 11 concert shows, MANN in Oxnard, BAD AZZ, 2ndIINone at Club Moose by Huncho Promotions, G-HOOD MUSIC GROUP by Kurupt & Huncho Promotions, Glasses Malone for 498TheFam Entertainment, BC Music Conference at the Millenium Biltmore, Humble Rhythm Kingdom Knights Gospel Concert, Who Kid Woody & Young Ace, Dub-C, RA The Rugged Man, West Coast Hiphop Awards at the Los Angeles Convention Center for which he was a nominee, and the 2011 Fremont Experience concert for Big Mike of UGMX. He also opened at the Airliner for Dub-C and Ra The Rugged Man. He completed two tour shows, Nick Cannon's "Speakers On Blast" and Rep Yo City tour for Huncho Promotions. 

He has performed at many clubs in the Los Angeles area such as the Dragonfly, Terrace, Rhythm Lounge, Club Silk, Club Rain, Club Entourage, Key Club, Mango Tango, Mazzikas, Epic Lounge, 2nd St Jazz twice, Club Moose, Airliner twice, and the Back Door. He has also performed at venues for 100.9 The Heat, KJLH radio at the Boys and Girls Club in San Pedro and the Compton Air Show. 

He has built his fan-base in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles, Oxnard, Ventura, Brazil, Israel, Jerusalem, Nottingham, UK, Russia, Nigeria Japan, Egypt, and several international countries. He has over 158,000 subscribed radio listeners. He is now established as an Urban Indie Radio Artist by DJ Chris Woodard, and a Las Vegas AnR Radio artist. His single "I Go Fanatic" receives regular air-play on several radio stations including Coast2coast, Rhapsody, Last.Fm, Jango, Spotify, Breezy's Brazilian radio, Live365, and coming soon to Pandora & IHeart. 
He has 175,160 subscribed radio listeners on Jango Radio. 

Digital Wes talents include the electric guitar and prior acting experience for which he has appeared twice on Everybody Hates Chris, Cold Case, Lincoln Heights and twice on the final episodes of Outlaw alongside Jimmy Smits. He is represented by Central Casting and KJAR & Associates. He currently takes hip-hop dance classes taught by actor and dance choreographer Adolfo Quinones(ShabbaDoo)from the movie Breakin & Breakin 2: Electric Bugaloo. 

He has done collaborations with B.F.L.Y., Spider Loc, Lil Will, Jon Doe, Ksysenka, Shugga Shane, and D-Tox out of Bangladesh. He dropped his hit songs "Fanatic Remix" Ft. Spider Loc of GUNIT, and another "Fanatic Remix Part 2" Ft. Dylan Dili from the hit TV show "Making The Band." 

Digital Wes is becoming well-known in the music industry, dedicated and working very hard to maintain that goal. His first single release "Lamborghini Doors Up" with his 2nd single "I Go Fanatic," is just the beginning of his upcoming album "The Illumination" released March 28, 2013. The album is a series of Pop, Rock, and Hip-hop. November 11, 2012 marked his birthday, also the day he dropped his sponsored Datpiff mixtape titled "Soul Expressions" featuring other artists including his 13 year old cousin artist Benny F. 

He maintained two weeks in a row the number 1 to the 6 spot on Spotify radio as a Top Artist along with artists like Chris Brown, Usher, Miguel, Trey Songz, Rick Ross, Lil Wayne, 2Chainz, Wale, Kanye West, Meek Mill, Chris Brown and Beyonce. His new album has top tracks listed on Spotify radio. 

He is in the April 2012 spotlight issue of El Barrio HipHop Underground magazine, the local Antelope Valley Our Weekly newspaper September 2011 issue, August 2012 issue of BiPolar Magazine, November 2012 issue of The Making Of The Classic as the "The New Classic" artist, January 2013 issue of Hostile Magazine, February 2013 issue of OneWest Magazine by OG Cuicide, and the March 2013 cover issue of El Barrio. He also has a featured web page on the MTV website. 

He has done interviews on live radio with Q104.7FM, the sister station of Power106LA, Celebrity Teen Scene, Urban Soul Radio, Everybody's Radio, Breezy's Blog Talk Radio in Brazil, Las Vegas AnR Radio, KLIQFM, and several others upcoming. 

His sponsors are El Barrio Magazine, BiPolar Magazine, Urban Culture Magazine of Las Vegas,Urban Guerilla, Mayhem Cars, Classic Touch Custom Cars, Caramba Tequila, Kliq Radio, Urban Soul Radio, and Wair Radio. His ringtones are sponsored by DJ Eightmile of Detroit. 


Digital Wes music can be heard on the following internet radio stations: 
COAST2COAST RADIO 
LIVE 365 
Kiss FM 103.1 Houston 
The Mix 92.9 Hartford 
Choice 107 Columbia 
KPTR FM Atlanta 
Power99 Jamz Housto 
Star 957 FM San Francisco 
Hot 104 
KJX-FM 
Blazin New Music 
WDGR - DJ Kelz 
WDOM - DJ Nsyne 
Power 92 
Wild 98 
LAST.FM 
JANGO 
SPOTIFY 
RADIO AIRPLAY PROS 
Urban Soul Radio 
Las Vegas A&R Radio, 
Breezys Radio Show in Brazil, 
Mary Mac Radio Show(International Recording Artist) 
NexRadio, 
Q104.7FM 
KLIQFM 

Press Links: 
MTV:http://www.mtv.com/artists/digital-wes/ 
EL BARRIO MAGAZINE COVER FEBRUARY 2013 
THE MAKING OF CLASSIC MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2012 
http://issuu.com/mprintmedia/docs/classic.issue/29 
BIPOLAR MAGAZINE AUGUST 2012 
http://issuu.com/bipolargear/docs/august_mag?mode=mobi&iin=email 
EL BARRIO MAGAZINE APRIL 2012 - PAGES 23,33-34 
http://issuu.com/barriomagazine809/docs/april_issue 
OUR WEEKLY MAGAZINE: http://ourweekly.com/antelope-valley/second2none-wants-be-first-group-its-kind. 

Social Medias: 
TWITTER: @realdigitalwes 
INSTAGRAM: Digitalscreed 
MYSPACE: www.myspace.com/lilmisfit007 
FACEBOOK:www.facebook.com/iamdharris 
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/digitalwestv 
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/iamharristv 
YOUTUBE: http://www.youtube.com/second2nonetv 

Links: 
MTV:http://www.mtv.com/artists/digital-wes/ 
DATPIFF: http://www.datpiff.com/Digital-Wes-Soul-Expressions-mixtape.417186.html 
CDBABY:www.cdbaby.com/Artist/DigitalWes 
SOUNDCLOUD: soundcloud.com/screwurecords/digital-wes-i-go-fanatic 
REVERBNATION: www.reverbnation.com/DigitalWes 
EMUSIC: www.emusic.com/album/digital-wes/i-go-fanatic/13415592/ 
AMAZON: www.amazon.com/Lamborghini-Doors-Up-Explicit/.../B008DB5HII 
ITUNES: itunes.apple.com/us/album/i-go-fanatic-single/id529839385 
TECHN9NE: http://www.therealtechn9ne.com/photo/digital-wes-screw-u-recordz-1 
JANGO: http://www.jango.com/music/DIGITAL+WES?l=0 
LAST.FM: http://www.last.fm/user/DIGITALWES 
BANDWAGONGIGS: http://www.bandwagongigs.com/epk/DigitalWes 
INDIE CHARTS: indiecharts.com/Profile.php?butname=899709180 
INDIE URBAN RADIO: http://www.live365.com/index.live&action=new1 
LINKEDIN: http://www.linkedin.com/in/digitalwes 
URBAN CULTURE MAGAZINE: http://www.urbanculturemagazine.org/profile/DigitalWes 
IP MUSIC GROUP: http://www.ipmusicgroup.com/profile/DigitalWes 
LEIMERT PARK: http://www.leimertparkbeat.com/profile/DigitalWes 
COAST2COAST:coast2coastmixtapes.com/member/digital-wes 
TECHN9NE: www.therealtechn9ne.com/photo/digital-wes-screw-u-recordz 


DW Team: 
Booking: DigitalWesEnt@gmail.com 
Manager: Rosalyn Harris 661 435 7828 
AnR Label Rep: 14KAY 323 635 1507 
Digital Wes Assistant: Lady T 661 236 8044 
Press Inquiries: Ms. Rosalyn Harris 661 435 7828 
Publicist: Niki Fuzell 661 338 7718 
Public Relations: Amber Schwartz 818 402 9682 
Legal Team: Arlene Glover, Esq 424 785 0575 
DJ: Dj Spinn 310 780 0473 
Promoter: Jiji Strong 
Security Team: Howard - Crew Protection 
Videographers/Photography: Raalow Street Tv, Emanuel, Selective Lens 
Choreographer: Adolfo "ShabbaDoo" Quinones 
Hairstylist: Shonda of SupaStar 

 
myPPK.com/get/digitalwes 

INFLUENCES: JIMI HENDRIX, KATY PERRY 

 
 
  
 

DJ, co-founder & editor-in-chief of @CouvrexChefs.

📺 Two-part recap of our adventures with Mathilde Raynal (Rinse) at the Bogota Music Market, known as BOmm:
Part 1 starring Indus, Vidéo Club, Paradisco, Muakk,  Lila Sky, Raptor House, DJ Babatr, Pedro Le Dino... 🔗 rinse.fm/episodes/mathilde-raynal-29-10-2025-1600
Part 2 starring Brenda & Maria Manuela, Wost, TraTraTrax, Rionegro (Cómeme, Polen Records), Nico Parga, DJ Maison, la guaracha, Boom Full Meke (Bclip, Monosóniko Champetúo, Llorona Records, Paria Records), picó soundsystems ...🔗 rinse.fm/episodes/mathilde-raynal-15-12-2025-1400
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SELECTED PAST GIGS:
2025
➯ 21.12 Badatopia x Couvre x Chefs & Misantropical: Merca Bae, DJ Hidrataccioni & more @ Badaboum, Paris

2024
➯ 21.12 Philou CxC all night long @ ALG, Paris
➯ 06.07 Philou CxC all night long @ ALG, Paris
➯ 30.05 Dreambow @ Pardo Club, Guadalajara (MX)
➯ 25.05 Amuleto @ Radio28, Cholula (MX)
➯ 18.05 Riesgo @ Biblioteca 611, Monterrey (MX)
➯ 22.03 TERMINAL LABEL NIGHT @ Le Chinois, Montreuil

2023
➯ 07.10 Météo 7 ans - The End @ Kzern, Geneva (CH)
➯ 01.09 Nova Danse @ La Cité Fertile, Pantin
➯ 14.07 Global System x Couvre x Chefs & Matraca @ La Machine du Moulin Rouge 

2020
➯ 01.02 w/ Joka (LVCF), Aasco, Hidden Peaks, BJF. Biel (CH)
➯ 10.01 POLAAR 63 @ ALG, Paris

2019
➯ 02.11 Lowup Records Takeover @ ALG, Paris
➯ 19.09 Equinoxe Autumn Party, Poitiers
➯ 02.08 WE! - Global Club Music w/ Lao, Blaise Deville & BJF. Geneva, Switzerland
➯ 28.06 CxC & Big Brothers présentent Lechuga Zafiro & Siete Catorce, @ Le Klub, Paris
➯ 17.05 Couvre x Chefs w/ Zutzut, Fausto Bahía, Bob Sleigh, Carin Kelly & BJF , La Java, Paris
➯ 12.04 YUM-YUM Meteo w/ Hoemelettes, Carin Kelly, K-Neu, BJF, L'Officine 2.0, Paris

2018
➯ 28.12 Future Sounds Of Fragentina! w/ King Doudou, BJF & Pekodjinn @ La Gravière, Geneva (CH)
➯ 29.11 Boiler Room B2B2B2B Paris w/ Boukan Records, [re]sources, Promesses
➯ 02.11 YUM-YUM Meteo w/ Sunareht, Flagalova & Sylvere, L'Officine 2.0, Paris
➯ 29.09 Professeur Promesses # 15 w/ Tomasa Del Real & Orgasmic, La Java
➯ 07.07 Hello Birds Festival, Etretat
➯ 24.05 Yung Beef en CDMX w/ Mi$$il, Mexico City (MX)
➯ 19.05 01-800-P E R R E O w/ Tomasa del Real, Oaxaca (MX)
➯ 11.05 Club Viral, Monterrey (MX)

2017
➯ 04.08 Bon Esprit • La Machine du Moulin Rouge w/ DJ Lycox, Paris
➯ 24.06 King Doudou & Friends, Grenoble
➯ 17.03 L'Autre Canal 10 ANS, Nancy

2016
➯ 25.11 Lait de Coco invite Plage Club w/ Tevea, Konga Konga, BB.Bok, Jeuneclyde, Liège (BE)
➯ 26.02 Wesh! Soundsystem w/ Nidia Minaj, Mini Club Rotonde, Paris

2015
➯ 26.03 w/ King Doudou, Borchi & Disque DJ, Legión Americana, Mexico City (MX)
➯ 18.02 Miércoles de Cumbia w/ N3gro dub, Guacamayo Tropical, Cumbia Lab, Club Atlántico, Mexico City (MX)
➯ 14.02 Salón Sonorama, Torreón (MX)
➯ 14.01 Miércoles de Cumbia w/ Cumbia Cosmonauts, Club Atlántico, Mexico City (MX)

2014
➯ 04.07 Who's Next, w/ Bonne Gueule blog, Paris

2013
➯ 23.07 Côte D'Amour w/ L'analytique de l'aliment, Batofar, Paris
➯ 17.03 Mexican Experience, Playa Acapulco Diamante, Acapulco (MX)

2012
➯ 10.02 w/ Niña Dioz, Club Atlántico, Mexico City (MX)

2011
➯ 31.12 Sativa Terraza, Puerto Escondido (MX)

Former front man of '90s London indie hopefuls The Spectators, Ellis hit his 40s after two decades of musical quiescence with a headful of song - largely induced by his confused, but (mutually) liberating extraction from an ailing and failing marriage.  
 
The songs brim with melody and melancholy, musing on life lessons, love lost and middle aged angst.  A dash of humour and a smack of self-derision stops the songs tipping over into sentimentality, but never take away from the candour at their core. 
 
In a world awash with male-singer-songwriter-piano-players, he doesn't lay claim to uniqueness (think Gary Barlow meets Elton John in a dark space and a bad mood). But the voice is dirt swathed in radio-friendly velvet, and the songs are immediate and infectious in their simplicity.  
 
He cites Leonard Cohen, Scott Walker and Nina Simone as influences and describes his music as "infinitely more effective than selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors." 

He follows his 2019 EP, The Truth, with The World Returned, a more rhythmically driven and sonically rich set of songs which on one side consider our tendency toward complicit subjugation to technology, and on the other potential of hope for the future.
 
Stephen Ellis lives in Prestwich, Manchester and can be found “in and around” with piano in tow. His second EP, The World Returned is now available and more will follow later in the year.

˙·٠•●♥ Farhan ♥●•٠·˙

I turn to reach for the high if you verses• So until I live I fight for your curses• My trigger blows makes you a cut• I guarantee I won’t miss you by the use of shut• I'm going to do what I never do before• Run as you never run before~
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Well bout maself, 1ST OF ALL bcum smthng gr8 in this world to knock the blocks off those ppl hu have been against me....I need a good deal ov time alone n Aa'm also selective bout ma interests, usually preferrin 2 study things in depth or participate in physical r hands-on activities. I don't find any reason 2 lower ma expectations. I go 4 what i really want. people describe me as matter-ov-fact, polite, n responsible n i believe dat everythin is not as sparklin as it seems.
I've strong opinions, i may sometimes act a bit controllin r inflexible. 
Aa'm badly obsessed wid Music n photography u can say,Aa'm a straight forward person, if i like somethin,i do appreciate it but if i don't like somethin,i say very clearly dat somethin is bad in it,
Aa'm not dat much experienced bout life, bt what i've learnt 4rm dis life is dat u must b independent n educated,if not den dere is nothin bt hell, Don't b dependent on any1,for dat purpose,u must have 2 b educated, I think dat if we help someone den we don't have 2 expect da same from dat person,i know sometimes i become a lil more religious dan usual, i don't like liars, no 1 is perfect at all, and at last wanna dO sumthing fOr Others tO remember when i pass away!

- I LOVE music, it helps me forget why the world it's so fucked up.
- Im a official gamer of xbox 360.
Such a long introduction...
i know aa'm kinda weird
I really don't have that much to say, if you want to know me better, just ask me ♥
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with the civilized flame of her kiss on my cheek, i can see through dark i believe. home gets stranger and strange gets warmer. fucking irony of nature or normals of moderns. where did i put my hands when lights have left us. i need to.

-i’m so tired of reading messed up minds of my generation. i may beg for a simple question and i promise, will say yes to anything.-

it hurts my fingertips, i can’t deny. sky full of clowns lady but why, why affection must be hidden by eyes. i am great at lying. all the walls of this town know that. -i told them.-

some random guy tells me that he can find weed for me if i want and some chemicals maybe. so this stoned walls were right. magnets work properly. fuck it! no one will believe me now. why would i tell truth then. knowing that limitation is fantasy, makes you silly, you said. i feel brilliant, so brilliant that i should buy a notebook and a pen and write these down. 

"the blind fake camera, the sick republic, the unions/money collectors, are you feeling it? you are the tool of the current idiotic trick of gods. they will open you up and fill with nonsense till you got full like a woman who cannot give birth to anyone, anymore. you know what they do to those woman, right? kiss their hands and lie and leave."

Assalamu alaikum (Peace be upon you).
Felpa Prod.
Felpa Producciones.

Low frequency lover. Atmospheric Junkie. Intrepid music explorer. I work for Straight Six Music managing labels including Bad Taste Recordings, V Recordings and Grid. Selective Promo & PR. 

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