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Last Updated: 9/13/2009

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City: MIAMI
State: FLORIDA
Country: US
Signup Date: 7/21/2004

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Sunday, September 13, 2009 
Our Minister of Propaganda (Alex Caso) has set up a blog, The Burning Hand Of Friendship. It will be a hub for the BHOF podcast/Dj mixes, Waterford Landing Propaganda, Junk Culture, News Links, and Music.

http://theburninghand.wordpress.com/

your paly,
WFL
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Thursday, February 05, 2009 

Category: Music


THE WATERFORD LANDING WILL SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF LIBERTY AND DISCONTENT! The Pals of Miami spreading the CHANGE!
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Thursday, June 19, 2008 

Current mood:  knighted

Our good pal Dan Goldman, (the man who designed the bullet park ep), comissioned us a while ago to do the sound design for the trailer of his graphic novel , Shooting War. The book was released on Warner Brothers late last year, which led us on a brief West Coast tour, in support of the book. Many of you have written us to post the trailer up, so with no further delay...here ya go, my little comic book nerds!









The damn thing was even broadcasted on Al Jazeera English on a show called The Listening Post. (You can check out the whole episode on Anthony Lappe's blog located in the GNN (Gorilla News Network) website. He is the guy who wrote the Graphic Novel, and also assisted in the direction of the trailer. The animation was done by Grand Theft Country.


I recommend you check out the book. Dan Goldman is originally from the 305/954 and we must support our brothers who are getting their break!

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Thursday, June 19, 2008 

Current mood:  amorous

Here is another review we forgot to post, written by local veteran, DJ Ray Milan. He seems to like the EP, plus he has posted a couple of our tracks for you to download... FREE. If you have never checked out his blog, then you have been missing out on some free tunes...posted daily.


Check it.. OFF THE RADAR


Be sure to check out DJ Ray Milan on Vagabond Fridays and on Apartment Thursdays at Love/Hate lounge...where our very own Alex Caso will  be holding a monthly residency with the Apartment crew.

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Thursday, June 19, 2008 

Current mood:  accomplished

A young scribe by the name of Abel Folgar wrote nice things about our new EP for the New Times last Month. The article showed up on both the Broward and Miami editions... Go ahead and click on the links for some excellent propaganda.

Now, If you read both of them you will notice that the Broward version allowed Mr. Folgar more words than the Miami New Times....which is criminal since we originate from the 305 and barley ever go up to the 954 (Thanks to gas prices and our fear of Americans...but we promise to rectify this issue by having a couple of shows up there soon.)

We just wanted to give a big shout out to Broward and The West Palm Beaches for letting this journalist praise us with more words...and a big boo to Miami New Times who butchered this mans vision of us.

By Abel Folgar

The Waterford Landing's 2004 self-titled full-length album was a refreshing burst of real music in what felt like a sweltering sea of local shit populated with bad bass, half-assed hip-hop, uninspired rock, and Atari-produced reggaetón. Scene veterans Richard Rippe (vocals, synths, bass), Ed Matus (guitars, synths, vox), and Alex Caso (synths, keys, vox, looks) burst on the scene as a promising trio. However, for personal and professional reasons, the speed with which they recorded music and gigged around Miami slowed to a slug's pace. But one can't be pissed, because they used the interim to take their already well-crafted sound to the next level.

Their latest EP, Bullet Park, is a five-song, twenty-five-minute cooker full of their signature psychedelic new wave, pop-sensible hooks, oozing oohs and ahhs, industrial abrasion, punk rock know-how, and ambient instrumentals. The opening track is a gorgeous instrumental titled "Theme From 'Through the Night'" which may or may not have something to do with Takehiko Ito's anime series, Outlaw Star. Or maybe that's just the liquor talking to me. "Getbent" is a factory tour de force with glimmery moments that shine through the distortion and set up the broody "Folksong 1." The macabre "Laserbeam" is the closest these guys get to happy happy joy joy pop music before delving into the title track, which showcases the band's individual strengths.

Though the local musical plane has improved since their first album, the Waterford Landing continues to show great artistic promise and integrity. Speaking of art, the cover was done by acclaimed graphic novel artist Dan Goldman of the Shooting War fame. And c'mon guys, bottle of Glenfiddich on me if you take less time with the next release.

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Wednesday, July 18, 2007 
Hello Friends,

We are very happy to report that after a full year of false starts, we are waist deep in the production of our next full length release, and we are very happy with the results so far. We hope to have the full length out by late fall. We will also release one song oriented e.p., and another e.p. of instrumental music. These will be out in early fall, so there will be plenty of music coming soon from The Waterford Landing.

We will keep everyone updated because we're starting to get the feeling everyone thinks we're just a buncha lousy bums, and it's true, we ARE a buncha lousy bums, but we're a very busy buncha lousy bums.

Thanks for reading!

The Waterford Landing Ministry of Information
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 
The Waterford Landing
By ARIELLE CASTILLO
Article Published Oct 19, 2006

The Waterford Landing was voted Best Pop Band in this year's New Times "Best of Miami" issue. In 2005 it was selected as a Personal Best, won the Readers' Choice award, and picked up Best Electronic Group. But Alex Caso, keyboardist and singer, remains somewhat mystified about the acclaim. "I've always been surprised by that," he said. "And the pop thing was funny, because we have pop elements, but I never thought of us as a pop band. I wonder who voted. Why don't they tell us? They should write us letters."

The pop element comes filtered through the sound of seminal New Wave groups like OMD and New Order. But then there are the droning, psychedelic guitar and the strangely low-fi electronics. But the votes couldn't have been for prolific output. The band, formed in 1997, has produced exactly one full-length album, a self-titled debut released late last year on the members' own label, Applied Chaotics. And the nods couldn't have been for frequent live performances. They played a last-minute show at Churchill's this past September, but before that, the last outing was at PS 14 in the early summer.

Yet Waterford Landings' members have been busy during this past near-decade. The other three bandmates — bassist Richard Rippe, guitarist Ed Matus, and drummer Neil Rippe — are veritable legends of the local scene. Rippe led Swivel Stick throughout the Nineties, and Matus led Subliminal Criminal before veering into experimental electronic music via his project HALO Vessel. Caso's baby was the noise-rock Love 94, jokingly named after the local easy-listening radio station.

Maybe karmic reverberations over copyright infringement contributed to the breakup of the band, but Caso was crushed.

"It was heartbreak. It was like, 'I had the best girlfriend in the world, and now she's gone,'" he said. So there were the other guys' bands. And the members' day jobs. And gigs in exotic locales such as Kankakee, Illinois, where Caso and Matus played IDM to a crowd of ravers in a cornfield.

Although many DJs are music geeks who secretly want to be musicians, after Love 94, Caso fully went in the opposite direction. He had dabbled in spinning records since the early Nineties, but he spent the second half of the decade spinning records at local clubs. He also hosted several shows on WVUM-FM, including specialty shows about Britpop and industrial music, as well as launching Electric Kingdom, a weekly program that still airs (albeit with new DJs). But in 2002 something in the stars aligned; the members decided to take things seriously and record the tracks they had written over the years. The result: Caso's mellifluous voice floating atop shoegaze-style guitar reverb dropped as if from outer space into a digital landscape of keyboards, synthesizers, and computer noises. It is wistful and alienated, telling tales of the suburban monotony that denizens of this county's outer regions know so well.

"Our name was actually taken from a suburban project in Kendall," Caso said. "All the names of the songs are the names of little developments around where we lived. It's this sort of disturbing David Lynch thing." The pull of this distorted vision of suburbia comes on slowly, creeping under the skin and provoking dramatic reactions. Many an accidental audience member has quickly become a rabid follower. The old wives, or whoever made up our cultural aphorisms, were right: The Waterford Landing once again proves that quality always trumps quantity. — Arielle Castillo
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Wednesday, May 31, 2006 

Best Pop Band

The Waterford Landing
The Waterford Landing is a group of four extremely creative musicians -- Alex Caso (synths, vocals), Ed Matus (electric guitars, synth, drum programming, vocals), Richard Rippe (synths, electric Fender bass, vocals), and Neil Rippe (drum set) -- who, with the release of their self-titled debut album (which you can buy for $12 at www.appliedchaotics.com) and constant live performances (see myspace.com/thewaterfordlanding for dates and locations), have amassed a solid local following. In fact this is their fourth Best Of award. The Waterford Landing is a pop band in the best sense, capturing the catchy yet personal, thoughtful spirit of Dark Wave/New Wave greats like Magnetic Fields, New Order, Cocteau Twins, and Joy Division, all of which Caso lists as influences. "Skylark," the second song on their album, is a perfect mix of warm synths, catchy melody, danceable drums, and heartbreaking lyrics. The Waterford Landing is very much an electronic band, but that doesn't mean you'll find the band members behind laptops at live performances; instead they'll be turning up the distortion on their guitars (Matus might be handing someone in the crowd his axe) and letting the "wall of sound," as Caso calls it, blast through the speakers.
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006 

Go check out Metrodub's remix of "Skylark" on their space:

 

http://www.myspace.com/metrodub

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Friday, February 17, 2006 

Torche and the Waterford Landing

By Abel Folgar 

Article Published Feb 16, 2006

 

Torche has been cutting mighty swaths with its down-tuned scythe for some time now; its full-length debut on Robotic Empire Records last year has garnered praise from both indie and major press camps. These veterans of the local scene are rumored to have most of a second album completed, and their live shows are nothing short of ferocious. Balancing the evening's fury will be the Waterford Landing's three-way synth attack on traditional pop. The group's dreamy soundscapes are easily danceable and aren't without solid instrumentals. Now the only question this evening is: Who plays first? Will it be moshing and then dancing, or getting touchy with the lady first and then slamming with the boys? In any case, both bands are excellent examples of what's good in Miami's music scene, so get down and buy a record

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