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Telepath is a unique new voice in the live-electronic scene. Keyboardist/producer Michael Christie brings an arsenal of samples--horn lines, rhythm guitars, Indian and Arabic musicians and vocalists’and lays them over deep-groove drumming and dark, reggae-infused bass lines. The result is a multilayered journey of sound that can transport listeners from a remote village in Pakistan, to a dub studio in 1970s Jamaica, to a fat Philly hip-hop groove--sometimes in the same song. San Francisco-based outfit Bassnectar's self-definition goes like this: "A free-form project that merges music, art, new media, social involvement, and community values; dedicated to a constantly evolving ethos of collaborative creation, self reinvention, and boundary-pushing experimentation." Their first proper full-length Bassnectar album, Mesmerizing the Ultra, was released in 2005, followed by Underground Communication in 2007.