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Last Updated: 12/17/2009

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City: SEATTLE
State: Washington
Country: US
Signup Date: 10/7/2006

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Monday, October 26, 2009 

Current mood:  artistic

Well we have returned from CMJ with much joy abound and new leafs for the band to turn!

First off, let me say there are some huge things about to go down in the licensing and label departments over the next 4 months AND you can definitely expect to see WUNDERBUGG at such high end performances like the MIAMI WINTER MUSIC CONFERENCE and SXSW & more tba!

On another note, we have our first music video for the song "Skin" about to debut everywhere, done with the wonderful Mark Fisher. He not only shot us in NY on top of the Chelsea Hotel but he also did our entire PureVolume House set and is turning the still shots into a movie.

For those of you who don't know (* Mark here is to you LOL), Mark has cowrote and performed songs with the Rolling Stones, James Blunt, and had over 12 Grammy's. His photo work has gotten artists on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine, and lifetime achievements for his photos/ films for the Katrina Disaster, AND the stranded US Troop on Mount Everest.

We are SOO lucky to be working with him and gain his support.... not to mention--- we are COLLABORATING on a song with him which will come out in the next 2 months!!!

HUZZAH!!!!!
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Tuesday, August 04, 2009 

Current mood:  aroused

WOW!

SO it is happening. Our album, "Transgradulate" (Aug2009) is already getting such PRE-PRESS that we are already guaranteed a prime showcase at the CMJ Music Marathon... and................. WE ARE HAVING A TRACK HITTING BILLBOARD RADIO IN 3 WEEKS!!!

The 30x #1, Billboard Dance topper duo, Klubjumpers has offered to do several remixes of Wunderbugg for the Top 40. They have worked with artists such as Pdiddy, Madonna, Brittany Spears and more!!!

"Dreamcatcher (Klubjumpers remix)-Wunderbugg" will be hitting Top 40 stations across the nation in 3 months!!!

If that goes well and our tour is planned-- there is a good chance we can get signed!!!!!

I want to thank you all personally for your dedication and your time that you took to listen to our music, or just stop by and say hi..every click and every comment makes us look better to the sponsors so you are really helping us have a living.

Stay tuned, TRANSGRADULATE will be available at CD Baby within the week!!

Please stop by,

Much love,
XO
W in Wunderbugg
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Friday, June 12, 2009 

COME get our free download which we wrote just because we love you and wanted to give you a treat

XO

http://www.reverbnation.com/wunderbugg

Any comments or feedback is much appreciated.
Enjoy!!!

***This video has nothing to do with Wunderbugg. I am just so in love with it- I had to imprint it on the Wunderbugg site






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Thursday, June 19, 2008 
Great stuff here! I like what I hear- Wendy @ Hitt Music Group

Dreamcatcher :)!!- FORD Foundation (38 Billboard dance remix hits)

I think Skin is great- Sue Ennis (songwriter for HEART)

Great album (transgradulate). You should be really proud of yourself- Greg Watermann (photographer for Rolling Stone, System of a Down, Ozzy and more)

Let me know when you come up next and when your gig is, I'll try to make it out- Tyler Bates (300, Halloween remake, etc)

Everything about Written in Flesh is Top shelf, original, and really well written- Peter Hay Twin Vision Radio PR

Very cool, good luck with your headlining gig!- Paul Cahalane (Producer...singerauditions.com)

"about the best CD I've heard all year. This'll be a slam dunk for sure."- Rainmaker Publicity and Publications

very cool and creative! Good luck!- Mike Garson

"we think all of your tracks are great, pick whatever one you want for the soundtrack."- Lip Service

I like what I hear....when does your album come out?- Tom Scanlon (Editor of SEATTLE TIMES)

You guys are UNFUCKING BELIEVABLE!! OH MY GOD you FUCKING ROCK-- Tom (correct name?) drummer of SCUM OF THE EARTH

Very nice sounds!- Collide

I really like your style, very well written- Mark Kolgin (Creamfields, Ibiza, Gatecrashers)

Wicked- Pitch Black

I Love it!- KJ Sawka

Rock On and good luck!- Jen Graham (radio team at Metalblade)

Smooth Leather, Killer Track!- Backwards Records

Nice one! Keep it up!- Combustion Records

Good luck on your new CD!!- NJ&PA at Electro ChiK Records

Spiced up- Spice Global Records

Very cool very acidy vibes- Aardvark Records

Heartfelt and symphonic ranging from dark melodies with soaring interludes to punchy sexy beats that builds and hypnotizes to no end!- Elite Level Entertainment

I really like your music and it was a pleasure working with you. I can't wait to see you guys live--
Sam Hofstedt (Studio X- worked with Pearl Jam and Soundgarden)

Totally feeling your music! I've listened to it for the 100th time...it's still in my car! That music is absolute money!- GB at Sgoinon Entertainment

Very solid sound. I definitely approve- Mark at Synthetic Entertainment

I listened to em all, nice stuff but Sterile I can and did listen to over and over and I did, really neat- Dave Allen
                                    (founder of Artouble, former reviewer and graphic artist for Slash Magazine, artistic director for Boomp Records)

Nice use of the keyboards- Richard Burke (Radio Team of Skateboard Marketing)

If Boards of Canada had punch and was dancable.- Trenton Doyle Hancock

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Ape to Angel
By Pitch Black [nz]
Release date: 2005-08-23
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 

Current mood:  vibrant
Nearly 20 years after grunge put The Emerald City on the musical map, there's a whole new "Seattle Sound" blasting into our collective pop consciousness thanks to the explosive emergence of the instrumental phenomenon known as Wunderbugg. Driven by the progressive psychedelic, yet also decidedly retro 70's-80s jam rock band vibe of keyboardist Whidden Flores, the three piece unit—which includes pianist and audio engineer Nick Evans and the MIDI sequencing and effects processing genius of Lorin Atzen—brings a dynamic live rock band perspective to the DJ format. Wunderbugg patterns its live presentation in the vein of The Chemical Brothers, Infected Mushroom, the Prodigy, BT, and Moby, while taking the hybrid sound further out via exciting and unpredictable improvisations.

A popular attraction on the Seattle scene over the past year and a half, the band introduces its mix of intelligent dance music and self-proclaimed "goa rock" to the world at large with its long awaited indie debut Written In Flesh. Even before the release of the album, the group was making inroads on an international level with the track "3 Molecules Away," which appeared as one of the top 6 featured artists for several months, on the soundtrack for Lip Service, the largest punk and goth clothing retailer in the world. Surrounding Wunderbugg, on Lip Service's website, are well respected fellow innovative artists like London After Midnight, Jupiter Crash and Technikult of Flesh. They are currently signed to Rainmaker Publications and Publicity for an intensive year long campaign. The title track, "3Molecules Away" is on the Rainmaker Myspace profile as a top client artist. They are also in Rainmaker PR's top friends. Rainmakers boldy states that "Written in Flesh" is the best album they've had all year and a "slam dunk."

Wunderbugg is also working with Peter Hay of Twin Vision Radio Promotions. Peter was responsible for the initial success of ZZTop and Thin Lizzy, amongst others. He says that "Everything about 'written in flesh' is top shelf (top of the line), very original, really good-stands out....and that the music speaks for it self."

Wunderbugg recently got approached by major label management The Tyler Music Group. They were told to add some vocals to a few songs and then they would be one of their clients.

From the first day of putting the music up on Myspace in 2006, record labels have been paying attention.

Smooth Leather, Killer Track!- Backwards Records (within  the first 48 hours)

Very cool, acidy vibes- Aardvark Records (well established psytrance label in UK).

Every show is distinct and never the same twice.

Among their print and online accolades, Wunderbugg was the only unsigned artist to be in national magazine, XLR8R's top ten releases for September 2008. They have been number12 on Tastymp3.com's most listened to psychedelic artists for the past year, right below Kottonmouth Kings. They were also the 2 Top Unsigned Artist on the A&R website Bandsforlabels.com for November-December 2007.  Lastly, upon their arrival at CD Baby, for the first two months after their release, they were the 2 top selling symphonic electronica artist.

They were also AR Select's 17 most listened to artist between February and April of 2006. The band was also nominated in October 2007, for "Best International Electronic Artist of the Year" in Canada's Exclusive Magazine Awards. Their trippy, hypnotic, industrially grooving track "Sterile" was in the last three nominations for "Best Electronic Song of the Year." Bandsforlabels.com found Wunderbugg on Myspace in August of 2007 and devoted an entire front page, month long, spread interview to Wunderbugg as the "Featured Unsigned Artist."

Their first major nation review came out in No.54 of Progression Magazine, which called Wunderbugg as "more than just a DJ duo with a twist....These kids definitely are going places, and not only around Seattle." Wunderbugg has been reviewed in everything from webzines to ReGen, XLR8R, The Seattle PI, and Skope Magazine. Articles on the way from Music Connection, The Stranger, and the Seattle PI.
Wunderbugg's album had its first barcoded notch of FM play from KFJC 89.7 in the Bay Area in California in August. Lastly,  their epic nine minute, deeply symphonic and dreamy trance track, "Never Enough Time" was their first track to break into radio stations in Ibiza when it was played on Ibiza Sonica in December 2008.

Not to mention, Whidden has trained with Norah Jones' personal piano coach, Julie Bonk, herself.

Wunderbugg has had to do what Nirvana did in the early nineties; to make their own scene and draw the mainstream to them- and they have. They not only won over the crowd, they won over the skeptical as well. Although their gigs have popped up sparingly like magic mushrooms in the woods, the size and impact of each show is beyond what a new unsigned band could typically put out. In the fall of 08, they will be coheadlining some of Seattle's largest venues with a variety signed artists from around the country. They co-headlined their fifth ever performance at the Showbox Sodo—a promotional date for Written In Flesh—with Desillusion, and after the show, the venue house manager told Whidden it was the most packed lounge show they had ever seen. Wunderbugg recently also made an appearance headlining at the Rainydawg Battle of the Bands on the UW Campus in February of 2008. Because of their unusual stature, odd genre, and immenent draw, they are always the headlining act and have had to forge out a name where there was none and no international artist to open for.
  Wunderbugg's full debut album release, "Written in Flesh", will have artists such as Desillusion and Johnny Monsoon opening for them. Wunderbugg has also opened up for SXY. Later on this fall, they are scheduled to perform with the Staxx Brothers, Rabbit Junk, Darin Epsilon, and Eva in a variety of shows.

You can always discern the mass potential of a band by the company it keeps, and Wunderbugg has some very cool luminaries in its corner: Mike Garson (David Bowie, NIN, Smashing Pumpkins), Peter Hay, Deep Forest, Collide, Pitch Black, KJ Sawka, Mike Koglin, (Gatecrashers/Creamfields), Andy Caldwell, members of Scum of the Earth, ITP, plus many of the radio promotions workers at Roadrunner and Metalblade Records in 2007. One fan in particular, Trenton Doyle Hancock, who is one of America's most famous modern artists and whose work is shown in the NY Whitney and the MOMA, has graciously agreed to lend his piece, "Los Luces Looes Losses" (Copyright 2005) for the album cover.

"Even though our live setup is very technical and detail oriented," says Whidden, "my actual composition process is pretty simple, done on one keyboard and a drum machine, with lots of layers. The idea is to keep the music in a pop format with catch riffs, yet allow room for improvisations and a lot of stylistic twists in the mix. In a live setting, we can take those basic ideas and run with them. There's nothing cooler than that moment when we stop playing after each 15 minute jam and the audience is hushed for a few anxious seconds before they start screaming their approval!"

Wunderbugg often confuse bookers and bands a like with molding their style to creatively make their songs fit each event. Because of their use the malleable instruments such as drum machines, effects processors, and samplers, it allows the trio a flexibility in their performance, not many others have.

Wunderbugg's first label release will be a remix for well respected, international Israeli psy-trance artist, ITP, on Phonokol Records, in the next two months.

Currently balancing her burgeoning music career with being a student at the University of Washington, working as an MD for Raindawg Radio, an album and club reviewer for ReGen and Music Connection Magazine, an AR rep for Aadrvark Records and booking internationally in Seattle- Whidden came up with the concept for Wunderbugg when she was just 14 and has spent the last eight years perfecting its sound. Originally conceived as a studio endeavor, Wunderbugg became a live band after a small booking company offered her a gig at El Corazon, a large local club.
Giving new meaning to the term "multi-tasking," Whidden currently runs two drum machines, a sampler and plays keyboards in an extraordinary feat of dexterity, when Wunderbugg performs live. Whidden has played the piano for seventeen years and worked with drum machines for close to seven.

Whidden recently got offered to join full time as a keyboardist for S.X.Y, who is touring all major corporate rock festivals in Europe and has opened for members of the Cure, Kittie, and more. Whidden was honored, but declined to tour internationally in order to remain dedicated to her group.

"I spend a lot of time in my studio, and even more time in my head and daydreams," she says. "This is the product of all my introspectiveness, ranging from every influence imaginable because I find at times, my keyboards and isolated room of sound to be much more comforting and receptive than the rest of the world. In public and on stage, I am the in the center, knowing everyone's name. But with the dawn of the morning I turn back into the quiet intellect reading Huxley, Sade, and Plato. I was raised alone, I live alone, and even though I am constantly surrounded by people, I am alone. This is my heart. These are my pains and my happiest moments in a few simple tunes."

Wunderbugg proudly defies all genres and can safely guarantee that their shows will never be anything like you could ever expect.

****Over 3/4ths of the success has occurred before a barcode or full album was finished.

AS OF AUGUST 1st 2008 "WRITTEN IN FLESH" is BARCODED***********

THANKS JONATHAN AND RHONDA OF RAINMAKERS!!!! YOU ARE THE BEST!!

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By AC/DC
Release date: 2003-02-18
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 

Current mood:  chipper

Hello you sexy beasts!

Gearing up for the full album release party and an intensive year of immense national exposure! Here is a link to our article in the Seattle PI.....

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/pop/337664_postcard02.html

PROGRESSION MAGAZINE no.54

    The new "Seattle Sound"? That's what the members of Wunderbugg are suggesting. From the band's bio: "Wunderbug has had to do what Nirvana did in the early 90's; to make their own scene and draw the mainstream to them- and they have. They not only won over the crowd, they won over the skeptical as well...."

    There's definitely a fresh-sounding vibe afoot here- like what might happen if Mike Oldfield and Jean-Michel Jarre decided to "get down" at a rave party. The band comprises a lady named Whidden Flores .., drum machines and samplers along with Nick Evans ..s and drum machines. Together, they lay down soundscape foundations- sometimes symphonically majestic, sometimes spacey and ethereal- over wich melodic synth leads dip and soar while catchy (mostly danceable) rhythms set the pace.

Sometimes, as on "Last Lullaby of a Fallen Conquistador," the pumping rhythms defer to melodic flow, confirming that Wunderbugg is much more than just a DJ duo with a twist. These kids are definitely going  places, and not only around Seattle. -John Collinge

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Sometimes CDs wind up on my desk and I pop them in the player and go what the fuck? Then I look at these people and decide that I like this guy's wacked out sneakers because my fashion taste runs that way and I listen to this CD some more. These guys are definitely psychedelic. And you don't even need to take LSD to find you dig some of this shit. The music is definitely eclectic and a bit different from what I usually listen to but this is good. The songs are varied and each one definitely tugs at you. If you're in the mood for something totally out of this world and not the usual stuff you listen to, put this disc in and give it a spin. Hell, you might even see yourself in one of these songs.
          -- THANKS www.rocknetwebzine.com

***HEADLINES***

Wunderbugg is coheadlining at lot of sick ass shows in the fall along side artists such as Johnny Monsoon, the Staxx Brothers, Eva, Darin Epsilon (Cuurve Recordings), Desillusion, Rabbit Junk and more....at some of Seattle's larger club venues.

***BEING FIRST IN MUSIC
We have made history here in the Seattle scene. With the success of our EP release at one of the most well respected venues around town and in less than a year of being together- we are officially the first electronica act ever to be considered capable of appealing and appeasing the mainstream here in Seattle- this is the new scene and we are at the forefront...... We do not rely on the crowds other larger bands bring and have been forced to carve out our own scene-- and it truly is happening.....expect way more than you could ever imagine-

Thanks to you all, my one dream in life is coming true- I couldn't imagine doing anything other than this...I live and die for music and have risked everything to be where I am right now, and thank the fucking gods I did.

XO
Peace + Love+ PLUR

The original wild child, Whidden


Currently listening:
Hold Your Colour
By Pendulum
Release date: 22 August, 2007
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Thursday, August 23, 2007 
WUNDERBUGG FOR SALE AT ALL TUNECORE RETAILERS + AMAZON, ITUNES, & CD BABY

Just because this won't get released any other way, here are a few free songs.... this is my piano solo work and most of the stuff I never share with anyone.
I hope you enjoy.... actually, fuck I don't care if you do like it or not-- I just wanted to put it out there.

http://www.mp3.com/artist/WUNDERBUGG/songs/

Furthermore, I am starting to post my writing up there as well-- it is a Wunderbugg up close and personal site.... all acoustic, all real

XO
Whidden
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Monday, December 11, 2006 

Current mood:  chipper
so after a week long period of hybernation and lack of human communication or time to eat-- I have finally emerged with my firt full EP, "Written in Flesh" with about 3/4 of it up on myspace.  I do not think that I have ever in my entire life worked so hard at anything else and I desperately hope that it shows-- for once I feel BEYOND proud of something that I have done enough so that I should promote the shit out of it.
Saturday evening when I stepped outside for the first time after a huge rain storm and the pavement was still slick, I breathed in the cold air and could feel that I had really done it- I really think this album could take me where I need to go....baby steps of course, but I feel a tingle.... I hope it is the right one.

**** OK I JUST HAVE TO ADD...... MIKE GARSON LIKES WUNDERBUGG. For those of you who don't know, he has done piano for David Bowie, NIN, and the Smashing Pumpkins and he just made my day by emailing me after I sent him a picture and told me he liked my music--- he was one of my intitial inspirations to practice so hard at piano to begin with. I am beeming with happiness

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Sunday, November 19, 2006 

Current mood:badass
So the first Wunderbugg exposure happened last night and it was fabulous! The crowd loved every minute and everything went smoothly, minus a few mispressed keys during the songs we rocked....Even though we were with all hardcore acts, it almost helped to generate a good buzz before the show as wunderbugg really stood out in style, dress, and presentation-- we got even a better audience than a large majority of the other bands. Darin's vocals were only the icing to the motherfucking cake. What is most satisfactory however is that the live instrumentation improved all the tracks by over 80 %. The Porter brothers and I have only been playing together for approximately a month AND the first exposure went beyond phenomenal- no one could tell how new we were. They will go with me into the studio to record the first Wunderbugg album. These next few months will be incredibly exciting as I think wunderbugg will expand beyond what I can imagine-- I won't be disappointed if nothing comes of it, but I will not be surprised at success either.


PPS-- hours later after a deep journey into inner space I discovered that WUNDERBUGG got noticed by the American side of DJ TIESTO's management/ production company that also works with many of the artists appearing at events such as global gathering and godskitchen.......and they like my sounds!!!!!!!!!! ( i was asked to stay in touch....look on my page :) )

OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS RULES!!!!!!!!!!!

I am just flattered that they took attention--that alone brightens my week!!


PPPS---STAY TUNED.....within the next few months I will bring you something wonderful. I am currently about to start going into the studio and am supposed to be working with the producer of Soul Sychedelics, a group that is already signed to Warner Bros. I am busting my ass to ring out all my connections and more guest appearances will come.
Currently listening:
Behind the Sun
By Chicane
Release date: 01 August, 2000
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Friday, October 20, 2006 

Current mood:  anxious
So here I am at a mere 20.5 years old, an overstressed, apathetic student with disdain for priestige and structured days. I have one functioning keyboard and one drum machine-my whole studio is in disarray with multiple instruments that need fixing such as 2 mixers, a set of turntables, my citar, another keyboard, one of my recording programs, speakers, an organ, and the piano needs tuning. I signed onto Myspace approximately two weeks ago without any expectations for my project to go anywhere (the typical stance of the existentialist pothead) and yet not THREE days later, a booking agent contacted me.
WUNDERBUGG WILL BE PLAYING IT"S FIRST SHOW IN DECEMBER IN SEATTLE AT A REPUTABLE VENUE!!!!!!

Furthermore, Wunderbugg is starting to get the attention of fans from around the world here on myspace as well as that of several record labels....all within the span of TWO weeks.

The excitement quickly evaporated once I realized the  laborious task ahead of me of pumping life into a thought/ concept piece that was originally meant for my ears only. Luckily, two of the members of the band that I've been doing promotion/ guiding work for who have exceptional sampler and keyboard skills have agreed to back me up. So PLEASE--- check out D.E.T here on myspace!!!!!
http://www.myspace.com/dynamicentrytool

Anyway this will be the first show that I have ever played live in a band, let a lone the first time I am exposing my music to the public. Working at both recording studio, radio station, school and with other bands does not help to ease the anxiety and unsureness I have about being capable of leading a group....nonetheless the future is a new, exciting, and dangerous place which I am determined to explore.

I vow to never get conceited. I vow to never let this excede my workable level. I will succeed. I will fail. I will have hope as soon as I've lost it, but whatever happens.......will happen.
As Kurt Vonegaut says in Slaughterhouse 5, " SO IT GOES."

so it goes
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