Data/Booty
Nolens Volens, //, and nonnon
MSSV-017
Data/Booty is a 25 track, 38-minute, 145 beat-per-minute blitz into the Chicago Booty House underground. A refreshed take on the 90s genre, the album is packed with energetic, hypnotically intense, bouncing basslines, and 808 claps to make your booty shake.
Data/Booty twists the genre on it's head, dusts it off with new production values, and gives it a modern and unique edge. The result is a bass crunching, booty twerkin club album that pulls elements from the electro, techno, minimal, and hard house dance music scenes. The beats are bumping, simple and crowded with profane, lascivious, directive lyrics and features vocals from Keith Masters, Vamp, P.O.N.Y., MC Boyar-D, gRape, V Marie, MC Huang, Con Collider, Gian, Treeman, Young Traficante, and Spit Fabulouz.
About Nolens Volens
Nolens Volens, Andrew Glassett, is a prolific electronic musician, producer, and dj who has released nine albums over the last six years. Growing up in Jerome, Idaho, Nolens Volens helped pioneer the underground punk scene. With degrees in Audiology and Speech Pathology, Nolens Volens began mixing social and psychological implications of sound and music. Indicative of the moniker he carries, Nolens Volens flirts with the duality of sound, teetering on the edge between pleasure and pain. In the early 2000's, Nolens Volens cofounded the MSSV label with // (Jonathan Higley) and nonnon (Dave Madden).
About //
// is US electronic producer and DJ Jonathan Higley. // began creating mixtapes, makeshift electronic instruments, and computer programs out of his father's Chicago-based studio at the age of 11. This early exposure to music and electronics continued when his family moved to Miami, where he began producing, DJing, and experimenting with electronic music. In 2008, Higley began production and DJing under the moniker //, but has also released tracks under the aliases XX, Collider, and O.N.. // found his unpronounceable name while coding software-based instruments. Through hacking out lines of code with '//', he created unpredictable, atypical sounds. // is known for his multi-laptop DJ setups and 6-hour marathon techno sets. His productions are eclectic, vacillating between techno, minimal, and downtempo while continually meshing thick bass lines, grooving drums, post-rock influences, and cinematic overtones.
About nonnon
Dave Madden's (aka dj webern, non non, Chomsky at the Bit, Wasabe P) earliest memories have nothing to do with playing ball, or going to grandma's, or riding a tricycle around Ogden: they involve pondering the oddity of the Magical Mystery Tour album art, playing a one-string guitar along with Paint it Black and trying to figure out what the hell some guy meant by I am the Lizard King -- thank heavens for hippie moms!
After spending his teenage years obsessed with Bauhaus and Depeche Mode, Dave attended university to study sound engineering/jazz guitar. He soon realized that being behind the console isn't where he wanted to be so, on a whim, he switched to composition and started writing all the weird academic music that chases everyone out of Humanities 101 -- focusing on computer assisted composition and, specifically, improvisation. He uses a laptop and electronics (such a cute term) to perform and DJ all over the world, from Montreal to Chico, California, in universities, museums and ghetto coffee shops, preferring the types of crowds who enjoy John Cage back to back with Massive Attack and his own realtime manipulation of both.
Dave has worked for video game companies, film, television and all other manner of music-as-commodity companies. Now post-grad school, Dave spends his time still in front of a console, though listening to his own music, comprised of field recordings, found sounds and feedback. He is currently finishing up 1) a collection of white label remixes that he will probably leave on park benches, as he cant afford a team of lawyers to clear the samples 2) an album with post-hop act Lapsed due Spring 2007. He continues to DJ and perform (most recently as 1/2 of the live version of Lapsed) and also writes about and reviews music for SplendidMagazine.com, SLUG Magazine and The Squid's Ear.