The Pioneers of Seduction are paving a new road through the musical back alleys. Honoring rock, punk and street poetry while delivering wry cultural insights with a thrill ride's abandon, both the music and the lyrics kick you right where you need to be kicked. Balls-out and in your face, smart and hard.

The newly formed Brooklyn band recorded their debut album in Chicago at Electrical Audio with studio engineer Steve Albini. The album was recorded and mixed in four non-stop fast-paced days in October of last year. Members are Max Low, Avispa, and Ian K.

"a sound that is intelligent and stripped to its punk rock bones, this trio offers a refreshing musical reality check" (Worcester Magazine)

"Unrelenting over the course of 14 tracks, their sound stands more to carry the torch of a certain tradition of stripped down rock music as opposed to whatever glossed-up, trendy thing is of the moment. "Pummel" (verb) is a word that keeps coming to mind...The Universe Is Setting Us Up is the kind of record that instantly makes me want to get out and see the band live, which is ultimately what any good rock record should do." (Crawdaddy.com)

"snotty yet melodic scuzz punk" (Knocks from the Underground)


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Beef Wellington is on a quest; an evolutionary path towards revolutionary funk. For the past few years he's been at the helm of Starship Fantabulous, exploring strange new worlds with Intelligence Officer Swamburger, seeking out new beats to feed the Cultural Starvation, and boldly going where ...

Okay, we won't go there yet. Bottom line is Beef has been on a quest, exploring a musical universe in search of a universal sound. Or rather, a real world version of his sonic vision. His journey began with years of formal musical training, with a sudden detour from the home stretch that led directly to the streets of Orlando where a serious jones for funk led to that all consuming quest.

After immersing himself in the loose-knit Downtown Orlando community that worshipped hip-hop, down-on-the-heavy funk and soulful sonics as much as he did, Beef began to assemble the Fantabulous Family, in no small part to MC extraordinaire Swamburger, an transplanted Chicago-born star-child whose non-stop flow of cerebral verse was the verbal equivalent of Beef's attitude toward making music. Vibe established, a subsequent sense of community, positive attitude that begets positivity, simultaneous evolution of a range of musical voices and visions, and breaking down of barriers for beat-driven music began to infect the MCs, singers and musicians who became Fantabulous

Closer to the funk. That's where Beef is heading now. "Basically, I want to drop the funk like its never been done in this town," he says. "Some good, nasty funk." Funk with more live elements, more instrumentals, less rapping, more singing. Beef has his sights set on that elusive, universal funk. It's a progressive path, expressing what feels right in the now, transcending all genre boundaries to create "Music for a Unified Planet."

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