There is also discernible thought and musical cohesiveness about the album.
The songs on Drink the Sea are structured more traditionally - that is to say, like actual songs and with less audible bass-breakdown stuttering. But it does sound noticeably unique - not just as a departure for The Glitch Mob’s reasonably developed creative direction but for any band within the genre at the time. Everybody was like, “’What the fuck is this?’”ĭespite crowd bewilderment, Drink the Sea is acknowledged as a very good album. … So when we played Coachella, we didn’t play a lot of our old stuff. “When we played Coachella in 2010, no one had heard our record yet,” Boreta explained. In 2010, after the departure of founding member Kraddy (given name Matthew Kratz) due to creative differences, the remaining members made a stylistic musical shift away from their previous drum-and-bass deejaying roots, a transformation capped by their debut album, Drink the Sea, which split their still-burgeoning fan base. International shows and custom sounds weren’t always in the cards for The Glitch Mob. The date is one stop on a tour that will take them from Vancouver to Reno to Romania to Chicago (though not in that order). Though the group has found success in West Coast states and around the world, their turn at the Santa Barbara Bowl on Saturday, May 30, will be the first time The Glitch Mob has performed in Boreta’s hometown. My grandfather had bought me an Apple IIe, and I would constantly tinker around or play with it until I thought I figured it out.”īoreta is one-third of The Glitch Mob, a group formed in 2006 from a deejay collective and born of the Los Angeles electronic music scene. “I was always a creative kid growing up,” said Boreta via Internet phone call. Justin Boreta has always been one to explore - from pre-Internet computer networks to the hills and bluffs that surround his Goleta childhood home to the creative trails blazed in musical territory seldom trodden in the world of electronic music. HOMEBOY ADVANTAGE: Goleta-born Justin Boreta is one-third of The Glitch Mob, a group formed in 2006 from a deejay collective and born of the Los Angeles electronic music scene.
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