TRAVELS RENDERED NEWS Coming soon will be collaborative electronic/ambient music sessions out in the California desert by Dean De Benedictis and Vic Hennegan. They had their first session at Red Rock Canyon State Park the other day, and it came out epically well. Look for more postings by them at different online locations.

SIMPLEXITY REMIXES Check a couple of these remixes that Surface 10/Dean De Benedictis just made for California jazz ensemble Simplexity. One remix is a new take on techno/house and the other is a form of alternative jazz that Dean has been contributing to. http://soundcloud.com/fatelessmusic/sets/simplexity-remixes-by-dean-s10/

    02 / 07 / 2012

AN EMAIL/LETTER FROM A FRIEND OF DEAN'S THE OTHER DAY:

"The true nature of a musician is if people listen to his music. My son, your friend Rory, goes to sleep each night listening to your CD. He says hello. If that doesn't make you feel successful nothing will. Hope you're well! Nigel"

    01 / 21 / 2012
SURFACE 10 ON YOUTUBE
If you haven't seen the Surface 10 Youtube page yet, go and audit a few computer graphics videos that Dean De Benedictis custom made over the last 4 years. He is still learning, but these were the first phase of his adventures in computer graphics adaptation. The videos are abstract, ethereal and apropos for some of his new, unreleased Surface 10 material.
http://www.youtube.com/user/Surface10RelatedVids

Dean and friends recently created a Blogspot page for Fateless Music/Records. They are on Blogger.com now.

http://fatelessrecords.blogspot.com/2011/11/fateless-on-blogger.html

    08 / 29 / 2011:

Read about how Dean is making mobile-music history at the top of the Cascade Mountains in the Pacific Northwest. His project is called The Summit Music Project.

  Dean's music, among other mediums, is the result of his will to tie an essential common thread together between opposing genres and mentalities, as well as draw from them a natural sense of emotion, expanse and mystery. This Southern California-based producer / performer / musician / visual and conceptual artist (otherwise known to the electronic/ambient community as Surface 10) has always utilized his interest in a variety of styles and cultures to enrich the quality of his musical expression.

  Beginning his deep exploration of music in the 80's, De Benedictis covered a wide gamut of musical experience; moving through many jazz-fusion and progressive rock bands, music theory classes, and producing/performing source music for network television over 12 years of his career.

  Like many other artists, much of De Benedictis's non-commercial (personal) music was composed as a dedication and a utility for his own life experiences; one of many examples is how some of his pieces were created, at first, only to carry with him and listen to at specific outdoor locations (in deserts, canyons, jungles, mountain regions, coastal regions, unpopulated areas in general), thus permanently marking the region with the music in his memory. He dedicates his work to people, places, memories, etc., and aspires to communicate and suggest a similar functionality for the experiences of his audience.

  In 1996, Dean De Benedictis released his debut ambient/electronic music (borderline space rock) CD on Hypnotic/Cleopatra Records, which was self titled under the alias SURFACE 10. Following that was Dean's collaboration project with George Sara (of THC) called Cathexis, releasing the CD Exempli Gratia, in 1997 (also on Hypnotic/Cleopatra), a gift to the techno trance world.

  Just after these initial releases, Dean appeared on various compilations, and in various genres, for labels like Hypnos, Lektronic Soundscapes, and Cleopatra. In the new millennium, 2000, Dean put out a technologically edgy/progressive/IDM style Surface 10 CD called In Vitro Tide on DiN Records, followed by his tribal ambient CD release A Lone Reply debuted under his own name, on Fateless in 2001. Dean then formed the Fateless Flows Collective and appeared on their compilations for 2004 and 2005.

  In 2004 the Surface 10 CD Borrowed Time 2000 was made available by Space For Music Records as a compilation of previously unreleased Surface 10 material, and in 2005 Spotted Peccary Records put out Dean's previously unreleased mix of all ambient vibes and time zones, Salvaging The Past. After those mid, new-era jaunts, Dean focused his attention on his space/rock/jazz quartet, The Strato Ensemble, releasing their CD, "Drawn Straws."

  Right around that same time he released his second Surface 10 CD on DiN, "Surface Tensions," this time as a glitchy/ambient far cry. The latest Fateless release was under Dean's birth name and it was entitled "A Cambient Variations, an ambient CD that was performed and recorded solely with Dean's voice.

  For an in-depth discography, click here. To read Dean's online interview with Phthalo Records click here. For info on Dean's newest release Salvaging The Past, and others, click here (and all the way through that section).