LOTUS

ANNOUNCES THEIR "COPY PASTE REPEAT" TOUR

LOOK FOR NEW ALBUMS, ESCAPING SARGASSO SEA AND
COPY PASTE REPEAT: LOTUS REMIXED IN STORES NOW

Tuesday, January 29th @ 9:30pm (Doors @ 8:30)
Beta Bar
809 Railroad Avenue, Tallahassee
Tickets $12.00 Advance, $14.00 DOS / All Ages Welcome
For more information please visit www.thebetabar.com

For those waiting for a concert experience with the dynamics of a rock band (read: no laptops), the dance inducing rhythms of club music, and the sophistication of modern electronica, an unlikely musical alternative has arrived in the form of the band Lotus. Formed at a Mennonite college that had banned on-campus dancing as late as the 1980’s, Lotus brings their club-worthy beats and rocking instrumental anthems to theaters throughout the country this fall. No glow-stick bracelets, pretentious Can trivia, or expensive distressed fashion required.

In January 2008, Lotus embarks on their "Copy Paste Repeat" tour, which celebrates the release of Copy Paste Repeat: Lotus Remixed, an album the band released this past November. The recording offers 12 remixes by renowned producers including DFA Records artist Juan Maclean, DJ Harry, and Lotus’s own Jesse Miller. Lotus’s post/electro/dancerock is deconstructed and reassembled into club ready dance, dub, glitch-hop, and IDM tracks. The band’s website is currently offering up the source files for the track ‘Bubonic Tonic’ for fans to create their own remix and submit for review. The site will feature the band’s favorite submissions. Visit www.lotusvibes.com for details.

Copy Paste Repeat: Lotus Remixed comes on the heels of the band’s most recent live album, Escaping Sargasso Sea, released May 2007, is a double-disc live album that draws from two previous studio albums, Nomad and The Strength of Weak Ties, along with never before released material. From the post/math-rock of "When H Binds to O" to the slippery dance beats of "Wax," this collection shows Lotus’s ability to deconstruct, stretch, and rebuild their compositions spontaneously on stage. Restraining from flaunting their individual chops, Lotus builds compositions on catchy melodies and heavy grooves.

The five-piece band has creatively fused electronic dance music with instrumental post-rock for eight years. The result is an explosive live show that has made crowds get down across the US, Canada, and Japan. Armed with a massive light rig and one of the most energetic shows on the circuit, Lotus proves why they have become a go-to act for late night festival slots. This tour takes the band into renowned theatres nationwide including Georgia Theatre in Athens, the Recher Theatre in Towson, and the Granada Theater in Dallas, among others.

Lotus welcomes Asheville, North Carolina favorites Telepath as support for the "Copy Paste Repeat" Tour. The music of Telepath lives in the haze between the live band and the DJ. Keyboardist/producer Michael Christie brings an arsenal of samples -- horn lines, rhythm guitars, Indian and Arabic musicians and vocalists -- and combines them with the energy and spontaneity of live musicians. The result is a multi-layered journey of sound that can transport audiences from deep Jamaican dub, to a remote Middle-Eastern village, to a fat Philly hip-hop groove -- sometimes in the same song. It is this "ReWorld" approach that prompted Thievery Corporation's "Outernational Music" representation company to choose Telepath as one of its inaugural artists. For more information on Telepath please visit www.telepathmusic.com.

Lotus’ complete list of confirmed dates is as follows:

January 04 Jam Cruise 6 Ft. Lauderdale FL
January 23 Cat’s Cradle Carrboro NC
January 24 Orange Peel Asheville NC
January 25 Georgia Theatre Athens GA
January 26 Neighborhood Theatre Charlotte NC
January 27 The Pour House Charleston SC
January 29 Beta Bar Tallahassee FL
January 30 Blue Nile New Orleans LA
January 31 Granada Theater Dallas TX
February 01- 02 Club 115 Austin TX
February 05 George’s Majestic Lounge Fayetteville AK
February 06 Newby’s Memphis TN
February 07 The Dame Lexington KY
February 08 Satellite Ballroom Charlottesville VA
February 09 Recher Theatre Towson MD
March 16 Jam in the Dam Netherlands

More dates to be announced. Please visit www.lotusvibes.com.