Fantastapotamus
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The best kept secret in music

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"In Brief: Fantastapotamus"

"Melding the all-out groove-tastic-ness of early MMW with all the magic found in a malfunctioning SNES console, Portland power trio Fantasta are the missing link between blazing, hard-driving funk and off-the-wall IDM. Grabbing influences from all across the map (jazz, indie, rock, electronica, etc. etc.), Fantasta somehow keep it real while taking the roof off. The energy and connectivity positively pour out of the three in waves. The live show is not to be missed."

-Jonathan Pfeffer, of www.tinymixtapes.com - Tiny Mix Tapes, tinymixtapes.com


Discography

LPs:
Fantastapotamus - Scrumptruessence [2003]
Fantastapotamus - Double Happiness [2004]
Fantastapotamus - Live at the Goodfoot [2005]

Sam Krulewitch takes many of the tracks from Double Happiness and gets them played often at Oberlin College. Ian does the same at University of Oregon. Fantastapotamus is preparing to record a definitive LP in the coming year. Some of the tracks are on circulation on Myspace.com.

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Feeling a bit camera shy

Bio

Fantastapotamus is friendship and the pure love of music. The band came into existence in a high school band room, where we jammed away every lunch hour for two years. Not content to keep their meetings limited to these outings, Fantasta grew into their living rooms, each of us bringing songs and ideas back to the band.

Fantastapotamus grew under the radar this way for six years, as a creative outlet, as a method of musical self-improvement, and as a connection between close friends. Though college separated us, we kept coming back to Fantasta every break, joyously alarmed at how the music kept growing.

Each of us is an aspiring professional musician in our own right. Every fresh meeting with Fantasta brings new musical virtuosity, new ideas, and new songs. We've grown in an insulated bubble, incubated by our own growing talents and by our pure sonic desires and influences. The music has taken an odd path between MMW, The Meters, A Super Nintendo video game soundtrack, Galactic, and Soulive.

We love our idols to death, but we also follow our musical heart. Fantastapotamus is a more-than half-decade friendship between friends, a completely unique musical adventure that will inevitably work its way into the world around.

Summer of 2005 marked the beginning of heavy gigging. Picking up shows in the Pacific Northwest, with Portland as a home base, Fantastapotamus wants to make up lost time by playing as much as possible to the fans that we know are waiting for that perfect, catchy, funky statement that we have been preparing for six years.