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ABOUT:  Director Feline & the Space Order Collective

Branching off from his band I APACHE EYE (who he is still a member of), Director Feline began his "solo career"
in mid 2004. Since the "band" for his solo music was just himself at this point, the first album was released
under the name Director Feline. "is this outer space?", an album written & recorded for the Crap Art
"Album-A-Day" project (where the rules say an album of 20 or more minutes must be created from scratch in 24
hours). "Is this outer space?" was conceived, written, recorded, and mixed in 4 hours total! It was released
by B&R Records (the label that releases most IAE albums) soon after completion, and was a nice success.

After his first solo release, D.F. went back to his IAE duties, and they worked on more music together. A few
months later, D.F. felt the urge to take a 'vacation' into solo-land again - but this time, he felt, must be
different. He needed a band.....so he went on a member search.

First, he went to his close friend Curdt Lockie, someone he knew to be an amazing musician. Curdt was quick to
join up, and with him came his girlfriend, Sammy Winder. Curdt and Sammy had previously worked together as the
duo 'the growth between us', which had previously shared a few local club bills with IAE. With Curdt and Sammy,
D.F. now had a solid rhythm section. Next, he thought, he needed something extra. Placing ads up at a few
local clubs and music/instrument stores, D.F. announced his new band was on the search for someone to 'fill the
gaps' (as the flyer read) of their soon-to-be rawk stylings. Plus, D.F. wanted to explore a few areas hinted/toyed
at with his work in IAE - samples, loops, sim-synths, noises, beats, etc. 

About a week later (maybe a bit more), and after D.F. had already turned down a few interested people who didn't
seem to quite 'gel' with the ideas the 'band' was experimenting with, Kennedy Black called. Pointing her to the
first Director Feline release as an example (something he forgot to add to the flyer), Kennedy called back two
days later, completely interested and in 'step' with the silliness/experimenting/rawking that was about to go
down. Plus, with her laptop and computer skills, she was the perfect candidate. Soon after 'jamming' with the
still-not-quite-ready 'band', Kennedy Black joined up officially. The search was over.

Soon after work began on the follow-up to "is this outer space?", D.F. and the team started to notice how new
and different (at least to the previous work) sounds/songs this new line-up was producing. Something had to be
done, and quick. 

On that day, "Director Feline & the Space Order Collective" was born.

Then came the finished next album, named "desperate", which was also released by B&R Records. After receiving
much support and love with this new release, the band knew things were heading in the proper direction!
Inspired by how well received their first album together had been, they quickly began work on a sequel, the
album that became their strangest yet, "under fire"! Putting 200% of their artistic effort into this album,
they really feel like it's a perfect example of what the band should sound like. "I'm very happy with this
album," Sammy was quoted as saying at practice following the release (again by B&R). "Everything is
exactly the way it should be. It just sounds like us!"



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