These are our custom built, lightweight speaker cabs that we brought along with us on Flux Bikes tour. Weighing about 23 lbs each, and complete with real bbq grills, they are powered by a small amp housed in a cigar box, and sealed and a 12v deep-cycle battery that we charge with a 30w solar panel. (Also pictured is a Crate Taxi amp that we used for hi-end at the show in St. Louis, but that didnt come on the MO GULF tour).
Flux Bikes is hitting the road at the end February! We are riding the Katy trail in Missouri and then taking the amtrak to Austin Texas. From there we'll pedal to Houston and the Gulf Coast, ending in New Orleans, LA. We will be connecting with bike folks along this 700 mile journey and unveiling some new custom gear.
Flux Bikes teamed up with dblbbq to make a very limited cassette tape and do a short mid-South tour around labor day weekend, 2012. We didn't make it to New Orleans due to Hurricane Isaac, but spent extra time in Memphis riding bikes, eating bbq, drinking whiskey, and finding our Memphis souls. Took a great ride on the Greenline Trailto pick up the tapes from H&W Distributing.
Bitchpork 47/15/12 w/Guardian Alien (New York) Tips for Twat (Minneapolis) Apache Dropout (Bloomington) Lazy K (Kansas City) Hurricanes of Love (New York) Spires That In The Sunset Rise (Madison) Large ensemble performance of Terry Riley’s “IN C” conducted by Dan Quinlivan
Comfort Station - 4/26/12
(feat. Stephen Ptacek and Alex Inglizian)
w/Stirrup
The Bicycle Music Festival in San Francisco California is one heck of a pedal-powered mobile part. The summer of 2012 was the 6th annual BMF, and things got rolling in the afternoon in Golden Gate Park with bike-blended ice cream and smoothies, food by HotBike!, and seven acts:
Lia Rose & Tiny Television, Major Powers & the Lo-Fi Symphony, Oona, Kipchoge, Rupa & the April Fishes, and Capoeira Ijexá.
Rock the Bike rigged up the sound system and transported it via bicycles to the park. Audience members hopped on one of their fourteen stationary bikes which are wired up to power a full-range sound system including subs, a mini-line array, and loudspeakers.
Early afternoon BMF 2012
Flux Bikes interactive jam
After an awesome afternoon of music in the meadow, all of the stage/sound gear was as loaded back up onto bikes and the entire festival took to the streets. But the music didn't stop there! A mobile stage, pirate radio transmitter, and Fossil Fool the bike rapper kept the beats bumping all the way to Showplace Triangle in Portrero, where the night portion of the party took place.
Rin Tin Tiger, MC Rai, Obo Martin, Shake Your Peace!, The Genie, and Birds and Batteries.
During the 2011 West Coast tour, Flux Bikes played at the San Francisco premiere of Ben Kolak's film 'Schizcago,' and to stay with our friend Ritwik Banerji who is developing an interactive music system called MAXINE in Berkeley, CA.
One morning we experimented with recording Flux Bike sounds into the Schizcago DVD case sampler (designed by Alex Inglizian) and then hearing what Maxine had to say about it.
