Lucas Rodenbush
Musician in Los Angeles, California
Lucas Rodenbush has been making electronic music since 1991. He is best known for his work as E.B.E. on labels like Soma, Plastic City, Yoshi Toshi, Resource Jump, Grayhound, YellOrange and his and Solid Grooves' own San Jose, CA-based Solid Trax, producing electronic house and techno music with a distinctive sonic quality and rhythmic edge. His latest output includes a collection of releases on his own Scenic Music as well as that found on Republic NYC, Designforms, Dutchie, Transmat, Plastic City Germany, Dobox and Immigrant. His music has made it onto the tracklists of many a compilation CD by such internationally respected DJs as Danny Tenaglia, Danny Howells, Anthony Pappa, Donald Glaude, Chris Fortier and Carl Cox. He has also seen a track licensed to the Sony Pictures Classics 35mm release of the feature "Groove" alongside the likes of John Digweed, Octave One, Orbital and DJ Wish FM, as well as an inclusion on Transmat's revered Time:Space_02 project. His career as a dance musician has led him to work with important artists like Digs [DIY], Christian Smith, Alexi Delano, DJ Spun, GPal, Robin Porter, Chris Jackson, Kenneth Graham, Walter Chao, Mustafa, Arturo Garces, and Alonso Ordoñez. He has also remixed the work of Alexander East, Pete Moss, Marc Cotterell, Mechanique, Arturo Garces, Kenneth Graham, ADNY, Sloth & Dormant, ETI and Vandal. As a DJ, he has visited London [UK], Gdansk [Poland], Santiago [Chile], Vancouver [Canada], and has toured throughout Japan and the USA as a premier artist, with stops in Tokyo, Osaka, New York, Miami, Jacksonville, Detroit, Kalamazoo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Fresno, Houston, Vail, Salt Lake City, Portland and Seattle. Rodenbush continually works on his musical craft via his San Jose studio, "The Launchpad", and now ushers in a full-length LP "A Moment of Clarity" on Scenic after a score of near 40 solo EPs as represented by vinyl 12"s and new digital output. His professional work as a sound musician and multimedia artist is informed by an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices and Integrated Media from the distinguished California Institute of the Arts [2008], a BFA in Music Technology [CalArts, 2005] and an AA in Film & Television from the Silicon Valley's own De Anza College [2003]. As an artist, his inspiration is drawn from the cosmos and life's own set of experiences.