Rabbit in the Moon

Rabbit in the Moon is the most original electronic group in the world, with the release of their 12” singles, remix work, and exploration in live performance, R.I.T.M. have established an enormous fan base that continues to grow.

They are a band that exists on many levels, and celebrates over ten years of attacking your senses and emotions. Most people’s first exposure to R.I.T.M. was to their song called Out-of-Body Experience. O.B.E. was released in 93, and to this day, is still played in clubs around the world, while most other artist’s tracks are left for dead after 2 weeks. In 2003, Muzik Magazine listed O.B.E. as the number one most sought after record in the last decade. After the release of “Phases of an Out of Body Experience” (The Remixes of O.B.E.) on Hardkiss Recordings ’94 the demand for R.I.T.M. became enormous. They began collaborating and doing remix work for everyone from Goldie, Sarah Mclachlan, and Garbage, to the Smashing Pumpkins, Sven Vath, Stone Roses, and Eric Clapton.

Their style of electronic music is timeless, but to truly understand this group is to see and hear them live. Rabbit in the Moon’s live experience has the power to evoke emotion at will. With a mix of performance art, live video projections, and original music, R.I.T.M. create a powerful connection with their audience. In the readers poll awards 1997 Urb Magazine, R.I.T.M. was voted the number one live performance act in the country. R.I.T.M. has been called “The Grateful Dead” & “Pink Floyd” of electronic music, while their fans are referred to as “Rabbitheads”. Wherever R.I.T.M. performs, new believers are born. For many, the show is a religious experience, where lives are changed. All of these things spawn from a band that has never had to grace the screens of music television for an audience. Alternately, R.I.T.M. has been on a grass roots journey, making believers out of crowds, one show at a time. From L.A. to Manhattan all of the fans with Rabbit in the Moon tattoos take notice, and admire them for that. The fans tell the story. This isn’t a now thing, it’s a forever thing…

The most amazing part of Rabbit’s story is that they have accomplished all of these things on their on. They’ve never been signed to a major label. There has not been a massive media push nor has there been millions spent to convince the masses that they are something special, they just are. Proving it every time they walk on a stage or record in a studio.

The History…

the story of these artists is one shrouded in mystery, welling up from some primordial swampland. R.I.T.M. was formed in the fall of ’92 by producer T. Confucius and Monk, a well-established DJ in Florida. They had already been part of throwing the first underground rave party in Florida, as well as collaborating on new forms of electronic music with their project Anarch-E, mixing club music with hardcore punk and alternative. But Confucius had an awakening one night at an underground party in Orlando, feeling there was a spiritual vibe missing from their musical adventures. So he began working on a sound that would change their musical destiny and influence the next generation of dance music forever. With Monk’s enthusiasm and direction, they formed R.I.T.M. and an independent label, Hallucination Recordings, to release this new sound unto the masses. The future was born. As R.I.T.M. music gained popularity in the underground; they realized the next step that had to be made. They needed to perform live, but not like everyone else – R.I.T.M. had to be something special…

Enter the Bunny…

An innovative performance artists who was fronting an industrial band in Tampa at the time, the Bunny created abstract costumes that would possess him on stage. Each new character acting out stranger rituals, and forcing the crowd to take part. And obviously there was no ignoring the fact that his name was Bunny! Monk had already DJ’d some of the largest clubs and underground parties in Florida, and it was at one of these events in the summer of ’92 even before R.I.T.M. music was created, that something you could only describe as magical happened. It was at one of Monk’s first large DJ appearances in Orlando, at the legendary Edge Nightclub. With Confucius at his side, armed with a sampler, they created spontaneous live remixes of songs that Monk would spin, and mixed in their own original music as well. As the set progressed, at the apex of the night, with 5000 people screaming at the top of their lungs, Bunny was unleashed… A mirror clad screaming human disco ball, slithered down a rope from the rafters 2 stories above the dance floor while Monk and Confucius supplied the soundtrack. Every light in the club focused on him so that the only thing to be seen, were the colors refracting off his hanging body, and the mass of hands reaching towards the light. When Bunny reached the hands of the crowd he hung upside down as they swung him like a pendulum over their heads. As he was lowered to the crowd they did not let him touch the ground. They carried him to the stage, as if he was their sacrifice. The crowd was in a frenzy. Bunny had pulled out a grinder and put it to a metal mast that was now over his face shooting sparks 10 feet in the air. It was at this foreshadowed moment that Confucius and Monk’s vision for music, and Bunny’s mind altering performances, that R.I.T.M was propelled to the forefront of live electronic music.

In the new millennium R.I.T.M. live shows have grown into full-blown productions. Including the use of live interactive video (from OVT visuals in Chicago), live instruments, vocals by Bunny, Fire Dancers, Pyro Techniques, and a cast of rotating performers.

What now…

In addition to DJ tours and live shows Confucius and Bunny are now finishing up a live album DVD of unreleased music consisting of the best of ultra music festival, music videos, interviews, behind the music, and visuals to tell there abstract message. This is what you have been waiting for!!!!

Their 1st ever full album release CD/DVD, "Decade" is a perfect audio and visual journey. With the David Bowie cover "Let's Dance" and the classic "O.B.E. - Out of Body Experience", Rabbit in the Moon has set the stage for a timeless fusion of sight and sound. The 80+ minutes DVD is a hi-def, 5.1 mix that takes you behind the scenes and in front of thousands of screaming fans at a Rabbit in the Moon live festival performance. The perfect audiovisual experience can only be found in "Decade".

Decade is slated for release June 2007.