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The Bran Flakes are a sound collage group from Seattle, Washington who specialise in creating music from pre-existing sources. The group’s members include Otis Fodder (in San Francisco, CA), Mildred Pitt (in Seattle, WA) and several special guests (located around the globe) who typically provide vocal contributions.
Along with other bands such as Negativland and The Evolution Control Committee, the Bran Flakes make extensive use of sampling, recontextualizing the samples into new works. The group scours thrift shops for obscure and quirky LPs; some of their songs also make use of recognizably famous basslines, television shows, and soundtracks from video games. The unauthorised nature of much of their work has prevented the band’s work from wide commercial release.
Following the 1998 release of I Remember When I Break Down on Ovenguard Music, on which Otis Fodder was sole writer, the group’s first album as a duo was in 1999, with Hey Won’t Somebody Come and Play on Ovenguard Music. 2001 saw the release of, I Don’t Have a Friend on Lomo Records. Their 2002 album Bounces! was released on the band’s own Happi Tyme Records, and contained their most popular song, “
Good Times a Goo Goo”, which sampled extensively from Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear’s performance of “Moving Right Along” from The Muppet Movie.
Along with other bands such as Negativland and The Evolution Control Committee, the Bran Flakes make extensive use of sampling, recontextualizing the samples into new works. The group scours thrift shops for obscure and quirky LPs; some of their songs also make use of recognizably famous basslines, television shows, and soundtracks from video games. The unauthorised nature of much of their work has prevented the band’s work from wide commercial release.
Following the 1998 release of I Remember When I Break Down on Ovenguard Music, on which Otis Fodder was sole writer, the group’s first album as a duo was in 1999, with Hey Won’t Somebody Come and Play on Ovenguard Music. 2001 saw the release of, I Don’t Have a Friend on Lomo Records. Their 2002 album Bounces! was released on the band’s own Happi Tyme Records, and contained their most popular song, “
Good Times a Goo Goo”, which sampled extensively from Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear’s performance of “Moving Right Along” from The Muppet Movie.
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I Have Hands
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Bounces
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I Don't Have a Friend
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Hey Won't Somebody Come and Play
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Shoutbox
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SimonRoy wrote:
Some crazy good holiday music by the Bran Flakes http://www.thebranflakes.com/holiday/ free download until December 31st
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rosztajn wrote:
very nice...great stuff
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chinneths wrote:
<3 it
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Stereohead228 wrote:
O________O
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GinjaXL wrote:
such silliness, I love it.
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mijnd3rt wrote:
FAN!
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dougsharp wrote:
glork
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jickjickthetick wrote:
so dumb and so awesome
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toy-maker wrote:
i'm not going to listen to music because its difficult but because i like it DUH
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toy-maker wrote:
i like it so i'll listen to it. who gives a damn
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everything wrote:
Hey guys, listen to SixShooterSam. Don't forget about the direct correlation between technical difficulty and your enjoyment of music.
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SixShooterSam wrote:
even Stock, Hausen & Walkman are more elegant than this "I Have Hands" album.
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jynx wrote:
Hmph. Not like in my day. None of your fancy-schmancy transitions and layering and melody and other modern nonsense. Then it was "bang bang bang" and that was all you could hear. That was proper music.
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SixShooterSam wrote:
This type of sampling is so talentless and shitty to me. Almost no layering, just 1 off samples at the same BPM, so fucking dull and boring.
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jynx wrote:
Reminds me of Stock, Hausen & Walkman.
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jocrow wrote:
52 weeks peppermillrecords.com
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due_friday wrote:
now connected to: http://www.lastfm.de/group/Shirley+and+Spinoza+Radio
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toy-maker wrote:
oh my god i love this o_o
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SimonRoy wrote:
Listening to "I Have Hands" right now and loving it deeply !
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iida4 wrote:
I somehow feel 'Good Times A Goo Goo' is a great song to start the morning with.
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News
Bran Flakes Collaboration with R. Stevie Moore
18 Aug 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/thebranflakes
Over the past decade we've been collaborating with our pal R Stevie Moore and here is our most recent output... a 8 minute song/remix... Came Twice. It appears on the new RSM release Sentimental Ties.. …
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The Bran Flakes LIVE! + Pitchfork.tv
3 Apr 2009 | from blog.myspace.com/thebranflakes
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