The catalogue includes 62 albums, with 36 of them that have never been available on any digital service provider apps. You Plug Dub In.Omar Rodríguez-López, guitarist for The Mars Volta, has released his entire back catalogue whicg features previously unreleased content. Légende du Scorpion à Quatre Queues (2001).Jeremy Michael Ward (†) - sound manipulation, vocals, melodica, synthesizer.A lot of those ideas led to what would become the members' next band, The Mars Volta. The band's writing process was largely improvisational, based on an exchange of ideas using drum and bass rhythms as the songs' spines. However, they also dabbled in electronica, Latin and salsa music, and jazz fusion. ( December 2009)ĭe Facto's general style was instrumental dub, influenced by the heady sounds of the likes of King Tubby and Lee "Scratch" Perry. This article may need to be rewritten to comply with Wikipedia's quality standards. Ikey Owens died of a heart attack in 2014, while on tour with Jack White. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, however, mentioned the possibility of releasing a documentary from the band's European tours, as well as previously unreleased tracks from Mario Caldato Jr. Since 2001 the only new De Facto release had been the live footage from January 3, 2001, show at The Smell, Los Angeles, including on the Gold Standard Laboratories DVD GSL Lab Results Vol. To date, it has not been confirmed if the sessions actually happened. In the same interview, Bixler-Zavala also stated that he would be returning to the drums for the production. In a radio interview conducted by Radionica Colombia on 28 October 2008, Cedric Bixler-Zavala revealed that after returning from the South American leg of the current Mars Volta tour, new De Facto material might possibly be recorded. The band, however, did not put out any new material, and following the death of Jeremy Ward in May 2003 due to drug overdose, any future re-groupings of De Facto appeared highly unlikely. During that time, Omar met John Frusciante at one of the shows, and the two became friends Frusciante once joined De Facto on stage as a guest guitarist.
Despite this, De Facto continued to play numerous live shows in the following years. In 2001, the members of the band teamed up with bassist Eva Gardner and drummer Blake Fleming to form The Mars Volta. Both albums combined the band's studio recordings made in 2000 with live recordings from the European tour in 2001. Légende du Scorpion à Quatre Queues, which would be the last De Facto album, followed the same year, released through Modern City Records. De Facto's first full-length album, ¡Megaton Shotblast! was released on the Gold Standard Laboratories label, and received moderate success, probably in part due to the popularity of At the Drive-In. That year eventually saw all the band's releases come out, starting with 456132015 EP produced by Mario Caldato Jr. After relocating to the west coast, Ikey joined the band full-time.įollowing the break-up of At the Drive-in in 2001, Omar and Cedric switched their focus on De Facto. They exchanged numbers, and then Ikey met up with them during one of their shows and joined De Facto as their keyboard player midshow. Through Headquarter Records, now known as Restart Records. The self-titled recording was released as a very limited vinyl pressing in 1999 it would be re-released in 2001 as How Do You Dub? You Fight for Dub. Ralph Jasso moved to keyboards but soon quit the band. The lineup of the band was switched around: Cedric played drums like he did before in his earlier bands Foss and Los Dregtones, Omar played bass, and Jeremy ran samples, sang, and did the sparse guitar work. Cedric said, "Yeah, actually, we used to be called the Sphinktators, that was early De Facto, just more rock." Omar was actually the singer of the Sphinktators and remembers, "We used psychedelic sounds, Cedric played the bass, Jeremy played guitar, and Ralph Jasso played drums."įor their first recording, they brainstormed the name De Facto Cadre Dub, which was later shortened to De Facto. The original band consisted of Omar, Cedric, and Jeremy playing local shows around their hometown, El Paso, Texas. The band began as small jam sessions after At the Drive-In shows.