Richie Londres

Richie Londres
Born London, England
Genres Alternative metal, heavy metal latin, hip hop drum and bass, Seastep,
Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, record producer
Instruments Guitar/drums/vocals
Years active 2005–present
Associated acts Sol Invicto, Cypress Hill, The Black Eyed Peas, Deftones, Cypress Hill, Stephen Carpenter, Okujira & Cultura Londres
Website http://solinvictocomiti.com

Richie Londres, (born in London, England) is an English record producer and guitarist. Londres has worked with Deftones and Cypress Hill on various projects. Londres is active in three groups, as the founding member & producer of Sol Invicto Cultura Londres and Okujira. He is also known for remixing various artists, published by Universal Records. He is the creator of the Seastep (genre) which combines art & music of the sea. His production influences cited are EL-P, Scorn, Geoff Barrow & Trent Reznor. Bands cited are Iron Monkey, Tool, Wu Tang & Rammstein.

Sol Invicto

Richie is the founder member of Sol Invicto a rather secretive cinematic metal/electronic group. The debut EP Initium featured Zach Hill of the band Hella on drums. The second EP (Initium II) was released in October 2013 and the group are set to release the third and final installment of the series in Jan 2015. The group have officially remixed songs by Deftones & Asking Alexandria as well as bootlegs for Tech N9ne & Saul Williams.

Richie commented on the project in 2013 in an interview with "Dose of Metal"

"We are working on 2 follow up EP's, which are effectively Initium II and III. I would like to get those out to fans over the next 8 weeks. The tracks on the 3 EP's were originally going to be an album, but since it was recorded over different periods of time and with different drummers it didn't have the feel of an album, by breaking them up into EP's it gives us more freedom to experiment with the sound and build our audience organically. We will record the debut album this year, it was just a case of finding a few clear weeks were we can all get together and record a body of music in one hit."

Cultura Londres

Early Years 2004–2008

Founded by Londres in 2004 with MC Tiago and Eric Bobo of Cypress Hill. The group toured extensively in the UK from 2006/2007 and released several music videos and released 2 EP's, supporting artists such as Ozomatli and La Mala Rodriguez.

Hiatus 2008–2012

Cultura Londres has been through many musical and line up changes since its conception and enjoyed a great reception from fans around the world but with Tiago's family commitments Londres was forced to shift his focus and started working on his other project Sol Invicto. With Sol Invicto now officially his main project Londres has always hinted at returning to finish the work he started in Cultura Londres. In a recent interview Londres stated "I want to debut the true sound of Cultura, much more in tune with my roots as a musician and producer. I've always been into the heavier, darker side of music, its always been in my heart. I tried all kinds of sounds for Cultura Londres and I've ended up back where I started. It's a journey I think you have to make as an artist to truly know why you do what you do."

Debut album

In 2012 Londres mentioned he was working in the studio with Tiago again and putting from final touches to various unreleased material before they begin working on the debut album.

Production

Branching out as a solo producer Londres has started to work with both established and underground artists, he is thought to work mostly with artists in Los Angeles & London. He is currently working with remixes artists such as Sick Jacken Charlie 2na & Ana Tijoux as well as a new production project called Okujira with LA based rapper thekeenone.

Discography

With Cultura Londres

With Sol Invicto

With Necro Deathmort

With Eric Bobo

With Universal

With Okujira

Remixes

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