Do yourself a favor and investigate the anime Kino's Journey. Great stories rich in social commentary and life observation. Quite inspriational if I say so myself.

An amazing electronic track by Arpanet (a pseudonym of german electro band Dopplereffekt). Given to me by a hacker fella by the name of Sevi from Munich. A great tune with a robot voice giving you some tech-facts. Great to listen to while driving by chrome and glass buildings.

DOWNLOAD ARPANET "NTT DOCOMO"

If you haven't heard this already... you probably should. Lo Batt from Belgium's track entitled White Russian. Smokin' gameboy electronica.

DOWNLOAD "WHITE RUSSIAN" MP3

Data Is Not Information will be released in Scandinavia by our good friends at Panik. Release is set for early next year.. Comes with the exclusive bonus track "Tech Agressorz 2".

The cover is also mantis green! (addendum: s)

Stephen Guidry (who plays Moog on our record) and I have enjoyed many a dark drive through the streets of Washington, DC whilst blasting this song by HrdVision. Unfortunately, the 12" is out of print but you can enjoy the Mp3 here. Amazing hard-hitting beats... the sound of the dark future.

DOWNLOAD "OH TECHNO SAVES" MP3

This is the cover for the vinyl version of the album that Collekt Records plans on releasing, we will post a release date as soon as we find out. We hope to have a vinyl exclusive track as well.

We have decided to just use the tools at hand to publish our web-presence. Blogger engine, Myspace, etc... part of which out of a DIY technological statement (as we are designers and can code and design our own sites - though are personally testing the new paradigms of DIY publishing with the free web tools at hand) and the other part out of our desire to spend time doing other things than coding. yes box.

Data Is Not Information, the debut by Frantic Mantis was released in the Fall of 2005 on Lujo Records. We are a band consisting of members of Division Of Laura Lee and Frodus/Decahedron. To quote an early text written of the band:

"Frantic Mantis - born out of an impromptu jam session in Summer 2003 of long time friends in Göteborg, Sweden. Bridging the mutual musical admiration of Håkan Johannson and Per Stålberg of Divison Of Laura Lee and Shelby Cinca of Frodus/Decahedron. Merging the styles of said bands impeccably to create a modern day fusion of punk and ambient rock known hereforth as: Datapunk. Screamy vocals, sung vocals, spastic guitars, 8bit explosions, and no over processing done by the collective brains of the members. Spontaneous and dangerous... two words that even modern day punk music has forgotten. Their initial recording, "This is Data-punk" , was lost for over a year after their whirlwind session in the back of a muscle-car modification garage in the "Old Jamaica" style recording complex of Timo Lundgren from Svennson. The files for the session lingered on a hard-drive in Cubase format deep in the warehouse district of Göteborg, Sweden yearning to be discovered. A spark eventually emerged in the 3 members to locate these recordings after they spent a year's time with their respective bands Division Of Laura Lee and Decahedron. Via electronic and GPS means, Timo was contacted by Håkan and Shelby, the files were procured in the proper format after one initial ill attempt that contained incomplete disks. Datapunk was being held in the dark, but the virus would soon spread...