Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zavala of the seminal post-hardcore group At the Drive-In and progressive group The Mars Volta are rather well known if not famous musicians. Bixler-Zavala for his high, yelping vocal style, and Rodríguez-López for his erratic, effect-laden guitar sounds.
One of the many side-projects of theirs, De Facto is an obvious, but not too drastic change from the eclectic jumble of music styles reflected in TMV. The music is rooted in Dub and reggae, but the work of the late Jeremy Michael Ward as sound manipulator and Ikey Owens on keyboards and "electronic beats" (as well as a host of auxiliary musicians on first album ¡Megaton Shotblast!) throws in an electro-y latin sound that the dub genre is not generally known for.
With ORL on bass guitar and CBZ on drums, this album also gives a listener a new perspective on their talents, with ORL grooving along to the in-the-pocket drums of CBZ.
The entire experience can be quite a bit wearing, maybe even exhausting, which is why the short runtimes of the EP 456132015 or the album How Do You Dub? You Fight for Dub. You Plug Dub In (under 20 minutes each) are perfect for this group.
All in all, I'd recommend this group to dyed-in-the-wool fans of ORL and CBZ's music and people wanting to mix up their music collection with a group that sounds like it crashed onto Earth from many galaxies away.
Links to online listening here: http://rodriguezlopezproductions.com/catalog-de-facto/
Happy listening, I'm out.
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