Single Cell Orchestra is the performing name of Miguel Fierro (born Miguel Angelo Fierro), a
San Francisco
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-born musician who has worked for many years in
electronic music
Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...
and
techno
Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...
.
His first successful single was "Transmit Liberation", an underground hit that proved influential in the development of
trip hop
Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol. It has been described as a psychedelic music, psychedelic fusion of hip hop music, hip hop ...
.
His first full-length was ''
Dead Vent 7
Dead Vent 7 is an album by Single Cell Orchestra. It was released in 1995 on Reflective Records. The album closely resembles a radio drama, with a variety of actors voicing the roles of a deep-space military crew involved in an Alien-like space op ...
'' (
1995
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), followed by ''
Single Cell Orchestra Single Cell Orchestra is the performing name of Miguel Fierro (born Miguel Angelo Fierro), a San Francisco-born musician who has worked for many years in electronic music and techno music, techno. His first successful single was "Transmit Liberation ...
'' (
1996
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).
Later that year, he collaborated with
Daum Bentley (of
Freaky Chakra) to produce an album entitled ''Freaky Chakra vs Single Cell Orchestra''.
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20070408091519/http://cyberset.cc/home.php
myspace pageOn discogs
American electronic musicians
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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