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Veeeery interesting! I've seen more surf CDs in the past few weeks than I had in the six months before them, and I like what I'm hearing. Bands are still experimenting, pushing the envelope, fusing different musical threads to surf to create new sounds, which is quite exciting. Here's a band rooted in traditional surf and not interested in pushing any envelopes. The only thing they seem to want to do is make a classic sounding instro surf masterpiece, loaded with fast, pounding drums, insistent bass, speed picked guitar and an ocean of soaking wet reverb. There isn't a dog on the entire disc, but they've got their first masterpiece (that I know of, having never heard the band before) in "T-16," a song that has it all including a melody that is exotic and exciting, as well as an overall atmosphere that suggests you'd better start paddling or you'll be under that wave coming up fast. Mike Dominguez and Dan Ware compliment one another perfectly on lead and rhythm guitars, respectively. Mike Lewis (bass) and "Too Fast" Jim Nichols power this music along like a pair of Rolls-Merlin engines in perfect sync. It's trad, man. It's like "Wipe Out" with a sense of the exotic and a heavy dose of mystique, and I don't know about you, but I'll always have room for some of that.

~ DJ Johnson, Cosmik

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The Nebulas:

Origins: The Nebulas are the result of a powerful chemical reaction that occurred when elements of a highly-developed west coast guitar sound fused with a thunderous East Coast rhythm section in the early months of 2001. In the fall of 2000, California-based guitarist Mike Dominguez (The Sand Dunes & The Aquatones) packed up his double-digit collection of Fender guitars & amplifiers and headed east to the Ocean State of Rhode Island. It was there that he teamed up with the preliminary members of The Nebulas resulting in "Hot Rods, Waves & Women", a brief 7-song demo (now long out of print and highly sought after) which introduced The Nebulas as a viable component of the 21st century's ever-evolving surf/instro scene. To achieve the optimum live sound, as well as augment future recorded works, the Nebulas recruited Dan-O Ware on the Fender Jaguar guitar as the fourth Nebula.

Nebula One: In March 2002, after the combo's full-length debut, "Nebula One," hit the streets in a shower of critical praise and radio airplay, another Sand Dunes' alumnus joined the folds of The Nebulas in the form of Eric Grammer on the bass guitar. With its lineup solidified, the band began performing in earnest, playing high profile shows on both coasts (and places in between like Akron, Ohio) with the likes of The Red Elvises, Junior Brown, The Boss Martians, Slacktone, The Hypnotic IV, The Infrareds and Pollo Del Mar, among others. After a successful west coast tour in the fall of 2002, yielding the Double Crown Records release, "KFJC - Live at The Pit," from a performance on the legendary Phil Dirt's Los Altos Hills radio show, the band returned to New England to commence work on their next studio effort.

It's Go Time!: In October 2003, during the mixing phase of their 2nd CD, the band was hastily summoned to Europe to liberate the low countries of Belgium and Holland with a 10-day offensive, during which many songs from the new album would be showcased. With demand for a new The Nebulas CD now at a fever pitch, the band released "It's Go Time" in January 2004 & immediately began rehearsing for a second tour of Europe - a mission successfully accomplished in April. Now officially based in eastern Massachusetts, this fusion of east meets west has produced a unique, full-bodied musical phenomenon that has impressed live audiences throughout North America & Western Europe, in addition to being featured on myriad surf/instro radio programs and compilation projects the world over. The Nebulas are currently writing and recording material for their third studio release and are in the early stages of planning their next California tour, scheduled for 2005.

Self-Titled: In the winter months of '05, the band closed the armored door to their super-secret training facility located in an abandoned textile mill campus somewhere at the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains and began the tedious work of reorganizing the fine metal shavings attached to a stack of 3M analog tape reels into something resembling a D-day-esque aural assault on the world's ears. Some say mission:accomplished, others say "You should have had it mastered". Be your own judge…

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