Flying White Dots is a producer/remixer/laptop DJ called Bryan who lives in Brighton, England. A versatile DJ who has rocked many parties since 1994, he learned how to mash in 2005. Over the next year or so his skills improved tremendously and his works evolved into a distinctly psychedelic mashup sound and created some of the most original and unique sounds around.
October 2006 saw the release of web-only all-star psychedelic mashup album "Staring At The Sky", available for free on the downloads page. When first released, "Staring At The Sky" created quite a buzz in the bootleg mashup scene, “True School Walrus” in particular, with many people mistakenly thinking it was Go Home Productions or The Kleptones under another name. Both said artists gave it the thumbs up, along with XFM’s Eddy Temple Morris, who was the first DJ to give it radio play and described it as “extraordinary”. Opening track “Colossal Intro” even made it into his Bombs of the Year of 2006.
In February 2007, Flying White Dots released a three track web-only ep "At War With The Misfits", which contained the massive "Yeah Yeah Yeah What's Going On", which received radio airplay from Radio One’s Colin Murray.
In May of the same year, Mr Flying White Dots handed a copy of “Staring At The Sky” to Radio One DJ and Bestival curator Rob Da Bank. When the track “A Day Of Madness” was played on his radio show, Mr FWD was delighted, especially when he heard the album described as “eleven tracks of wonderment”. More delight was to come when the following week another track from the same album was also played on Radio One. It seemed Mr Da Bank had a new favourite bootleg mashup type band. Band? Well, there is a distinctive sound certainly, and influences are worn proudly.
September of that year saw Flying White Dots play a DJ set of his favourite tunes of all time on the All Time Top 100 Ice Cream Van at the mighty Bestival. An awesome time was had by all who went to this most excellent of festivals.
In October 2007, the second album "Into the Great Unknown" was released to unanimous acclaim, which included “Walking On Clouds”, a track made mainly from the same samples the Orb used on their seminal classic “Little Fluffy Clouds”, alongside belters such as “Kill Phil” and downtempo cheeky numbers like “Your Poetry” and “Sunday Morning, April 14th” which blended electronica classics with vocals which were very, erm, middle of the road. “Into The Great Unknown” confirmed Flying White Dots was not going to be a fad. Rob Da Bank described it as “such a brilliant bootleg album” on his Radio One show.
2008 saw Flying White Dots warm up for the Orb in their hometown of Brighton with a spectacular audio visual show. Visuals were provided by Bryan’s VJ Ryan, and FWD got to use the Orb’s projector. With synchronized visuals and audio parts including a breathtaking rocket launch, this was quite stunning.
A homage to all things acid house, psychedelic and Floydian called “Land Of Oz” came out in the middle of Summer 2008, clocking in at 9 minutes 39 seconds, the longest and most ambitious track FWD has ever done.
The third album"3D" came out in November of the same year, and it showed a darker, more abstract, deeper and more textured sound. Listening to the album, it takes nine minutes before you hear a vocal line, and the line in particular is “You walked in to the party” from “Vanity” which could well be about Warren Beatty. Who knows? Some people found “3D” to be a bit of a departure from previous albums and many considered it to be the best work to date.
2009 saw FWD standing on the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square and getting booked officially for Bestival 2009. A dream come true. Preceding this, a new album “CMYK” came out. A brighter, more optimistic and summery offering than previous albums, it shows FWD in full strength and full power. To have a listen to this, and others, head over to the download page.
Bookings/contact: bryan@flyingwhitedots.com
