One in a Million

Kite Flying Robot

Fresh off a vagabond year squatting buildings and hitchhiking along California’s Golden Coast, Nikolas Thompson began Kite Flying Robot in 2005 in San Francisco as a one-man live electronic/rock mashup. Having played guitar in rock bands for years, Thompson experimented with a sound combining the aggression of Rock music with the endless soundscapes of Electronic music and the fun and danceability of Pop. Kite Flying Robot has largely been a mobile music project of songwriter/singer Thompson, with residencies in Oklahoma City and Seoul South Korea, collaborating with other unique and talented musicians befriended along the way. The music often feels genre-bending, with beats between dance and hip-hop, trumpets and violins dancing around synthesizer landscapes, electric guitar like The Edge sitting in on the 1970 Ziggy Stardust sessions, and a unique feel found somewhere between moody ballads and hopeful pop anthems.

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Kite Flying Robot has toured the US, the UK, has performed in Japan and South Korea, has scored short films/commercials and has performed with bands like Future Islands, Octopus Project, Nice Vega, Dia Frampton, Prince Rama, Ringo Deathstarr, Love X Stereo, among many others. KFR has also worked with such industry professionals as Michael Trepagnier (Coldplay, Brazilian Girls), Don Grossinger (Brian Wilson, the Flaming Lips, Madonna), Chris Fudurich (Finch, Jimmy Eat World, Britney Spears), and Korean Music Award-winning producer BA Wheeler.

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Song available on iTunes and kiteflyingrobot.bandcamp.com