Blixaboy
- Location: Denton, TX
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- Bio: Mwanza "Wanz" Dover has been passionately writing, performing and recording music for the better part of the past 20 years. With a resume as diverse as his, it's not ... (more)
- Bio: Mwanza "Wanz" Dover has been passionately writing, performing and recording music for the better part of the past 20 years. With a resume as diverse as his, it's not surprising that the music he is making now as Blixaboy is pushing the dubstep genre into exciting directions by incorporating elements of shoegaze, dub, minimal techno, krautrock and film composition.
Founding the 90s space rock band Mazinga Phaser in Denton, TX, Dover helped put the area's psychedelic rock scene on the map with features in Magnet and Rolling Stone magazines, while he expanded this sound to include more electronics andgarage rock energy in his subsequent band, The Falcon Project. Dover studied composition and sound design at theUniversity of North Texas' Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (C.E.M.I.). Additionally, he founded the Laptop Deathmatch competition in Dallas, TX, and was crowned champion at the 2010 SXSW Laptop Battle. Dover runs Dallas' Ableton user group and has performed with Glenn Branca's 100-guitar ensemble numerous times.
Dover's Blixaboy project has garnered a healthy amount of praise. Catching the ear of the godmother of dubstep, Mary Anne Hobbs, Blixaboy tracks were played on Hobbs' BBC Radio 1 program, 'Dubstep Warz' in 2009. A Blixaboy and DJ Red Eye remix of Datarock's "Amarillion" was released in Europe in 2010. Other Blixaboy remixes have been commissioned by Julius Funkhouser, Ishi and Nervous Curtains, while Convextion and Cygnus have done remixes of original Blixaboy tracks.
With the Blixaboy project, Dover is able to bring his divergent musical loves under one roof with mesmerizing results. After releasing a string of online EPs and a limited-run album entitled 'Digital Daze,' Dover is ready to introduce the music of Blixaboy to a wider audience. Setting the scene for the bold world of Blixaboy's future music, the new album 'Kliks & Politiks' presents Dover's unique brand of cyberpunk dub executed with cinematic vision. (less)
