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Formerly known as Cosmic Sound, Stephen Farris is a Houston, Texas based beatmaker, who has been doing this shizz since high school with fellow bandmate Daniel Berkowitz in the almighty Ghost Mountain. Farris’s style sounds like a mix between Boards of Canada and Flying Lotus, if you can believe it; the guy loves to microsample from old videotapes that he finds at garage sales, and he even released one of his albums on VHS. On his latest release, Farris decided to take a more ambient route than 2011’s Into Bloom and Phosphorescence, but the spastic, break-beat sound that fans will be familiar with can be found on the first three tracks of the CD, while the last two tracks are chilled out. While I am more of a fan of Cosmic Sound II and the -genius- Indigo, Farris proves that he has crafted a sound all his own with Fluctuate.