Programmer/keyboardist Sammy Rubin and vocalist Jeremy Haines rounded up their friends Fujiya & Miyagi, Mixel Pixel, So Percussion, Adam Matta, Clack Singles Club and vocalists Katie Hasty of Numbers and Letters and Kellie Rae Powell to make 'The Colors EP'. The upcoming collaboration EP will be released on April 14, 2009, with a percentage of the proceeds going to the 826NY Organization (http://www.826nyc.org/).

'The Colors EP' Collaborators:

Fujiya & Miyagi
Formed in 2000 as an electronic duo of David Best (guitars and vocals) and Steve Lewis (synths, beats, programming), they released Electro Karaoke In The Negative Style two years later, a minimal electronic set it hangs eerily on Best's distinctive whispered vocal. Adding bass player Matt Hainsby in 2004, they released a series of ten inch EPs that took them to the hearts of fanzineland. Gathered together these parables of personal injury, both physical and mental, made up three quarters of the well-received (Pitchfork, NME, MOJO, etc) album Transparent Things in 2006. Named after a Nabokov brain dump on the relationship between the past and the present. It sums them up.

So Percussion:
So Percussion have never been just another modern performance ensemble. Following two acclaimed albums of rigorous music by modern master Steve Reich and even-more-modern masters David Lang and Evan Ziporyn, as well as ongoing collaborations with electronic gurus Matmos, the 20-something quartet has discovered a bold new voice: their own. Called "astonishing and entrancing" by Billboard, "brilliant" by the New York Times, the discovery is perfectly appropriate, So Percussion was created to give fresh voice to what co-founder Jason Treuting calls "funky contemporary music." A call to Bang on a Can founder David Lang yielded a commission. Called "a must-hear" by Billboard, their self-titled debut featured Lang's "the so-called laws of nature." Their newest CD/DVD Amid the Noise began as an after-hours project. Eager to expand their palette, the members of So experimented with glockenspiel, toy piano, vibraphones, bowed marimba, melodica, tuned and prepared pipes, metals, a wayward ethernet port, and all kinds of sound programming. The resulting idiosyncratic tone explorations were synchronized to Jenise Treuting's haunting films of street scenes in Brooklyn and Kyoto.

Mixel Pixel:
Mixel Pixel is a music/video band based in Brooklyn, New York and was initially conceived as a home recording project back in 1997 when Rob Corradetti began making tapes on a 4 track he purchased while working on a farm in rural Minnesota. In 1999, Corradetti moved from his home state of Delaware to Brooklyn and began playing with long time collaborator, Matty Kaukeinen. In 2001 they released their first album, Mappyland on their self-initiated record label, Mental Monkey. A combination of casio pop, video game samples, tape loops, and folk music, Mappyland was a stark contrast to the electroclash and post-punk revival scenes happening in New York City at the time. Since 1999 they have released a slew of albums and singles on Kanine, Mental Monkey, and other small labels. These albums include Rainbow Panda, Contact Kid, Music For Plants, Let's Be Friends, July 5th, 1961 (Eastern Stars), Cheap Thrills Tape Compilation, and so on.

Adam Matta:
Adam Matta is a vocal percussionist, human beatbox and sound effect artist. He Performed at Carnegie Hall with Bobby McFerrin and 19 other young vocalists from around the world, in "Instant Opera!" Performed with LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots) as a resident artist in Brooklyn, and also in Norway.

Clack Singles Club:
Fang, from Clack Singles Club has produced and remixed tracks with Bonde do Role, Architecture in Helsinki, Queen, Lady Sovereign, FBC Fabric DJ Dexta, Princess Superstar and Passion Pit. He was part of the production team behind 2006s' critically acclaimed 'The Return of Dr Octagon', which garnered high praise for it's originality, outstanding production and monstrous funk.Likened by Newsweek Magazine to a crossbreed of Kraftwerk and Parliament the Return of Dr Octagon was picked as one of the top 10 releases of 2006 by such diverse sources as Wire Magazine, Paul Thomson (Franz Ferdinand), Lost at Sea and Newsweek. 'The Return...' ejaculated a slew of underground hits, including 'Aliens' (which scored single-of-the-week in The Guardian (UK) for it's ear-popping fusion of swamp-rap and robot-ska) and 'Trees', an electro-dancefloor masterpiece which was given 4/5 stars in DJ magazine, a widespread hammering in clubland, and was picked up by MTV as the soundtrack to their "Think" environmental campaign.