Maceo Plex and Jon Dasilva | it

There are at least four bands named Complex: a British psychedelic rock group, a Japanese rock supergroup, a Tanzanian band, and a Finnish punk band. 1) A psychedelic rock band from the UK. Their two albums are among the most sought-after artefacts of British psychedelia. Only 99 copies of each album were pressed. Despite the fact the debut album was recorded in November 1970 it sounds like it's straight out of the Summer of love. Basically we're talking echo-laden organ-driven garage psychedelia which is marred only by poor sound quality. Eight of the eleven compositions were penned by Steve Coe...

Located deep within the circuitry of a mechanical alien host known as Maetrik you will find a complex web of synaptic dispersements resembling what could be called a soul. And this soul which drives it's host and manipulates it's every move is finally beginning to emerge. Its name is Maceo Plex. The emergence of such an entity has been the result of a need for feeling, a need for interplanetary funk. We as humans consider this need a feeling, a feeling rooted in emotion, and emotion being the very basis of humanity. Maceo Plex is on a quest to fullfil...

La fortuna baciò il sassofonista Maceo Parker quando il fratello Melvin entrò nella band del padrino del funk/soul James Brown negli anni 60. Appena uscito dal college, Parker ebbe questo ingaggio con i JB e non ebbe da pentirsi. Già negli anni 70 tentò la carriera da solista ma tornò da James Brown diverse volte. Assieme al trombonista Fred Wesley e sassofonista Pee Wee Ellis, Parker fu famoso come membro degli ottoni di JB, portando avanti un concetto di horn section, spesso copiato, inventato da James Brown. Maceo fece anche parte del clan Parliament/Funkadelic. .

German rave/techno/trance act from the mid 90's. Various producers were involved in this project. The first singles were made by Ramon Zenker, Andreas Schneider and Uwe Papenroth. Later other producers joined the project, as the original producers moved on to other projects The "face" of Perplexer was Marc Olbertz (DJ since 1993). He played as DJ Perplexer at raves and was the interviewee in magazines and on TV. .