- Audio Karate
Infobox musical artist
Name = Audio Karate
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Origin =Rosemead, California , USA
Genre =Pop punk
Years_active = 1995–present
Label =Kung Fu Records
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Current_members = Art Barrios
Jason Camacho
Justo Gonzalez
Gabriel Camacho
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Notable_instruments =Audio Karate is a pop punk band from Rosemead, California.
Members
*Art Barrios - vocals, guitar
*Jason Camacho - guitar, backing vocals
*Justo Gonzalez - bass, backing vocals
*Gabriel Camacho - drumsHistory
Audio Karate signed to
Kung Fu Records in fall 2004. They put out their debut album, "Space Camp", on May 14, 2002. The album featured the songs "Nintendo 89," "Rosemead," and "Senior Year." After the release of "Space Camp", Audio Karate toured the world with bands such asThe Ataris ,NOFX ,Blink-182 .After the heavy touring, the band decided to take a break to write their next record. The result was an album named "Lady Melody" that was produced by
Bill Stevenson of the Descendents. "Lady Melody" was released on June 1, 2004 onKung Fu Records . "Lady Melody" is considered a much darker and angrier record than "Space Camp". After the release of the record the band began to tour non-stop in support of it. At the end of the year, the band announced that they would take a "vacation". [ [http://www.punknews.org/article/11060 Punknews.org | Audio Karate taking a long break ] ] In 2005 a rumor spread that the band had broken up, but this was later proven to be falseFact|date=October 2007.On October 15, 2006 Audio Karate updated their fans via a blog entry on their
MySpace page. The entry stated that vocalist/guitarist Art Barrios & guitarist Jason Camacho are writing the soundtrack to an independent movie titled "Maquillaje", a dark movie about botched love and suicide. It is directed by Marcial Rios, a friend of the band. The film is done entirely in Spanish. The music that they are writing for the movie doesn't sound like the typical Audio Karate songs; most of the songs have been fueled by heavy drinking. They also mentioned that they are working on a new album, but they don't know when it will be coming out, or when they will be able to go on tour again.In the meantime, Jason Camacho had built a studio,
Lady Melody Recordings . It is expected that Audio Karate will be recording their new album here.The band has posted that Mike Jimenez, formerly of the pop punk band
Rufio , will be drumming for them while original drummer Gabe Camacho is away. Gabe Camacho has since rejoined the band to record their follow up to Lady Melody, bringing the original line up back together and still recording Audio Karate music.Trivia
* Jason claims to have taught Scott Sellers of
Rufio how to play guitar.
* Art and Jason wrote the music for the independent film "Maqullaje"
* Mike Jimenez is the former drummer forRufio .
* Mike Jimenez also plays drums in a band called Science Fiction Theatre with formerRufio member Jon Berry.Discography
Albums
*"Space Camp" (May 14, 2002)
*"Lady Melody " (June 1, 2004)Notes
References
*cite web | url=http://wc09.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=AUDIO|KARATE&sql=11:wpfixq80ldse~T1 | title=Audio Karate > Biography | accessdate=2007-10-25 | author=Apar, Corey| publisher="
Allmusic "External links
* [http://www.AudioKarate.com Official website] (No Longer Working)
* [http://www.myspace.com/audiokarate Official MySpace]
* [http://kungfurecords.com/html/audiokarate.shtml Bandpage at Kung Fu Records]
* [http://www.freewebs.com/audiokarateuk/ Unofficial fanpage]
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