The Bran Flakes

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The Bran Flakes
OriginSeattle, Washington
Genres
Years active1992–present
Labels
  • Ovenguard Music
  • Lomo
  • Illegal Art
  • Future Logic Development Corporation
Websitethebranflakes.com
Members

The Bran Flakes are a Canadian-American indie pop group formed in Seattle in 1992. The group, whose line-up comprises from Montreal, Quebec, and from Seattle, Washington, specializes in creating sound collages from pre-existing sources.[1] Until 1997, they recorded on 4-track in bedrooms and did not play any shows, putting out hand dubbed cassette tapes and distributing tapes through direct mail-order, zines and indie catalogs.[2]

Career[]

The Bran Flakes make extensive use of sampling, recontextualizing the samples into new works, often resulting in ironic statements about modern pop and media culture. 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 unauthorized nature of such sampling has prevented much of the band's work from official commercial release. However, they did contribute six tracks to the fully authorized Raymond Scott Rewired, an album of Scott remixes (including tracks by The Evolution Control Committee and Go Home Productions) which was released in February 2014 on the Basta label.[3]

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 (Otis Fodder and Mildred Pitt) was in 1999, with Hey Won't Somebody Come and Play on Ovenguard Music. I Don't Have a Friend was released in 2001 on Lomo Records. Their 2002 album Bounces! was released on the band's own , and contained one of their most popular songs; "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.

In 2008 the band signed with the label Illegal Art, known for such acts as Girl Talk and Steinski.

Personnel[]

Discography[]

The Bran Flakes have a core catalogue consisting of 7 studio albums and one compilation.[4]

  • I Remember When I Break Down (1998)
  • Hey Won't Somebody Come and Play? (1999)
  • I Don't Have a Friend (2000)
  • Bounces! (2002)
  • Bubbles (2007)
  • I Have Hands (2009)
  • Ultimate Hits (2016, compilation)
  • HELP ME (2017)

Live performances[]

1998

  • Omnimedia V0.3 (January 24)
  • Church of the Subgenius Devival (March 14–15)
  • Coffee Messiah (May 2)
  • Omnimedia V0.5 (October 17–18)

1999

  • Meet the Sonicabal (February 20)
  • Electromuse2 Festival (May 14–21)
  • Art's Edge Festival (June 27)

2000

  • Sonicabal 2 Showcase (September 23)
  • Halloween Fright Night (October 31)

2001

  • I Don't Have a Friend Release Party (May 24)
  • 7th Annual Olympia Experimental Music Festival (June 16)
  • Nova Nights Freak Out Party (October 25)

2002

  • Bounces! Release Party (November 6)
  • Sonarchy (November 16)

2003

  • Nerd Rock (February 3)

2004

  • I.D.E.A.L. Festival (March 6)

2005

  • Brides of Frankenstein (August 6)

2009

  • Sepomana Festival (April 18)

2011

  • Convergence Festival (September 4)

2012

  • ONN/OF Festival (January 28)

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/bran-flakes-mn0000625560/biography
  2. ^ https://thebranflakes.bandcamp.com/
  3. ^ Raymond Scott Rewired website
  4. ^ https://www.thebranflakes.com/disco/

External links[]

The Bran Flakes[]

Band members[]

Interviews[]

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