Artist Detailed Info: Floss

There are many artists with the name Floss:

1. Florentine Schlüter, known as FLOSS, is an independent Berlin-based artist who creates "angry feminist techno pop" blending club beats, rave culture, and riot grrrl energy. @floss.world

2. A redirect page for Brazilian dancer and social-media influencer, Juliano Floss.

3. Wildman saxophonist Izaak Mills leads the formidable bopcore trio Floss, featuring MCMC founders John Seman and Mark Ostrowski on bass and drums. Floss draws its sound from the hardcore records of the eighties, but its soul belongs to the free improvisation scene of late sixties Chicago.

Captured live in the studio by Zachary Watkins, their 2004 release Unwaxed is a carnival of "frenetic bop lines atop scurrying grooves. Plodding bong-rock beats and spacey flute interludes appear too, but saxophonist Izaak Mills, bassist John Seman, and drummer Mark Ostrowski mostly keep things fast and fun." - The Stranger

One is quick to think of Ken Vandermark, Kidd Jordan, or name another energy-based reed player, when hearing this band work it out. Suffused with funk, R&B, and the rawest methods of American free improv. Floss plays powerful music, the kind by which we should soon identify with the term, "working band." -Alan Jones, Bagatellen

There seems to be a playfulness in their sound, a feeling of communal spirit and fortitude. But there’s a punk sensibility as well - an overall sonic aggressiveness, and a do-it-yourself individualism. - John Ewing, Earshot Jazz

4. Floss was an ultra-rare American private-press garage and psychedelic rock band that released their mythical album Cruisin' in 1976.

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