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Mars Lasar - website: www.marslasar.com

''Platinum award winning composer/music producer Also an accomplished sound designer,visual artist/photographer He boasts an impressive list of credits in both the mainstream and broadcast marketplaces.''

To date Mars has successfully released 23 solo albums and has a full arsenal of music production credits to match. Currently (2011) Mars' music can be heard on NBC's Conviction, The Medium, Extreme Makeover, the Bachelor, Disney, Law And Order SVU, America's Got Talent, and Fox's Emmy Awarding winning show "24". Mars' 22nd solo album Tahoe Spirit is available on ITunes and Emusic along with his entire catalog. Mars' first solo album Olympus was frequently used by CBS during their broadcast of the Winter Olympic Games from Albertville, France and the record reached Top Ten in the Progressive Adult Contemporary radio charts. His second solo album The Eleventh Hour represented an adventurous future path for Lasar; pushing the boundaries of what is considered New Age into areas of avant-garde, dance, acid jazz, industrial, and world beat. The Eleventh Hour can still be heard at radio across America, Canada, and Mexico with continued success in Europe, Asia and South America. Considered cutting-edge in composition, style and production, this record reached American Billboard's Top 10 NAC. The fourth CD, Olympic National Park, showcases yet another dimension of Mars' talent. Celebrating America's National Parks, Mars fuses the sounds of nature with his composition, producing an uplifting and provoking musical journey. Escape & Sapphire Dreams quickly followed. His 8th release in 2001 Karma hit #4 NAV (New Age Voice) Top 100. His music is frequently heard on television and in films, including "Jason's Lyric" and the "6th Man". Songs from Mars' solo albums have also been heard on television shows including Baywatch, Young & The Restless, General Hospital and Hard Copy to name but a few. His song writing and production talents span a multitude of genres including New Age, Pop, Rock, Metal, Jazz, Classical and Electronica. See his solo album catalog

Mars has been featured in such publications as the LA Times, Spin, The Chicago Sun Times and Billboard Magazine. Mars has appeared on The Discovery Channel's Movie Magic for his technical wizardry, and received numerous awards, including two platinum records. The first for his work on Crazy, the hit record by England's recording artist Seal, and his second for, "Love Is Still Enough", a song Mars wrote and produced with America's Sovory. Love Is Still Enough was featured on the soundtrack from the movie Jason's Lyric. Mars has worked with such Artists as T.a.t.u, Divinyls, Jon Stevens (INXS), Rick Dufay (Aerosmith), Steve Balsamo, Erin Williams, Xavier, and Siedah Garrett, best known for her collaborations with Michael Jackson and Brand New Heavies. He has also co-produced Herbie Hancock, John Sykes (White Snake), French Diva Liane Foly. In 2002 hit Russian band T.a.t.u hired Mars to write and produce songs for their hit project. As a result of their collaboration, one of the tracks was entered into the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest earning third place amongst the 26 countries entered.

Purchase and listen to Mars' full catalog at this website marslasar.com, or download at Itunes Mars Lasar

Mars' catalog includes these cd titles (starting from recent):
 * 1) . Final Frontier 2
 * 2) . Tahoe Spirit
 * 3) . 11.05 Revival
 * 4) . At The End Of The Day
 * 5) . Holiday High
 * 6) . Yosemite - Valley Of The Giants
 * 7) . 11.22 Arrival
 * 8) . 11.04 Panorama
 * 9) . Nocturnal Diaries
 * 10) . Final Frontier
 * 11) . Collaborations
 * 12) . Karma
 * 13) . When Worlds Collide
 * 14) . Blue Maze
 * 15) . Christmas From Mars
 * 16) . Big Box
 * 17) . Vertical Velocity
 * 18) . 11.02
 * 19) . Sapphire Dreams
 * 20) . Olympic National Park
 * 21) . The Eleventh Hour
 * 22) . Escape
 * 23) . Olympus

Meditation catalog:
 * 1) . MindScapes Vol.1 - Fields Of Gold
 * 2) . MindScapes Vol.2 - Moonlight
 * 3) . MindScapes Vol.3 - Satin Skies
 * 4) . MindScapes Vol.4 - Divine Spark
 * 5) . MindScapes Vol.5 - Eterna
 * 6) . MindScapes Vol.6 - Presence
 * 7) . MindScapes Vol.7 - Transformation
 * 8) . MindScapes Vol.8 - Inner Purpose
 * 9) . 8 Minute MindScapes Compilation
 * 10) . BabyEscapes Vol.1
 * 11) . BabyEscapes Vol.2
 * 12) . BabyEscapes Vol.3
 * 13) . BabyEscapes Vol.4
 * 14) . BabyEscapes Vol.5
 * 15) . BabyEscapes Vol.6
 * 16) . BabyEscapes Vol.7
 * 17) . BabyEscapes Vol.8

Some history:

Aussie composer and technologist Mars Lasar, has had a unique career that has influenced the evolution of technology and its relationship to music and composing. Mars was obsessed with gadgets as far back as he can remember, going so far as to pull apart watches to figure out how they worked. At 11 his mother, who was an artist from Germany, introduced Lasar to music. His love for both music and gadgets quickly fused in harmony. According to Lasar, "I'd had extensive classical training and composed many themes on the piano, but I needed more and technology was the answer. So back in 1978 you'd find me with a simple cassette player, shortwave radio and a stopwatch. I put the cassette player in pause record, searched for the correct sound on shortwave, then hit record on the cassette player and used the stopwatch to determine when to stop. I'd do that over and over again for an hour to get a rhythmic sample of a shortwave radio sequence. I'd try all kinds of shortwave sampling combinations together with time combinations as long as a full second and down to 1/4 of a second with real neat results. Sequencing and sampling became my obsession." Multi-track sequencing which did not exist at that point and sampling was where Lasar was destined to go."

Shortly after, he was introduced to synthesizers and monophonic sequencers by another student in his high school who was obsessed with electronics, mathematics and music. Unknowingly, Lasar was perfectly situated to become a pioneer in the music sequencer explosion that occurred in the late 70s. Lasar remembers, By 1981, he was deep in the synthesizer/sequencing world along with Kraftwerk, Tomita and Tangerine Dream. I was in a band, IQ, with one other keyboard player, Ken Davis, and singer, Darpan. They dressed up in space suits and played space music on street corners, pubs, discos and open auditoriums. The band became such a popular spectacle we opened for Midnight Oil, Split Enz (featuring the Finn brothers of Crowded House) and eventually Mike Oldfield during the Tubular Bells tour.

As struggling artists, the band huddled in small house and perfected their unusual craft using only synthesizers, drum machines and vocals. Until In 1979, they met Kim Ryrie founder of Fairlight Instruments, the first computer software driven musical instrument manufacturer. Kim hired Mars, knowing he might be a good addition to the Fairlight team. He worked for Fairlight for eight years. During that time, Lasar worked with their R&D team to help create the first multi-track sampler/sequencer "Page R". "I spent countless hours building the first sample library and making demo compositions. I composed countless compositions using my sequencing method which was sent out to the world with the machines at $80,000 a piece. I demonstrated the Fairlight at audio trade shows AES, NAB and others, and to many artists and producers including Alan Parsons, Hans Zimmer, Kate Bush, Duran Duran, Herbie Hancock and many others."

After Fairlight, Lasar came to Los Angeles in 1990 and worked with Seal and Hans Zimmer. He sequenced Seal's song "Crazy" with Trevor Horn and worked on Days of Thunder with Hans Zimmer. Lasar relates, "At that point in my career I was focusing on composing and sound design. The reason I got to know all these guys is that they all loved music technology and the Fairlight." Lasar released his first album as a solo artist in 1991 "Olympus". Twenty three albums later (see his discography at www.marslasar.com), Lasar is still a prolific composer.

Contact Mars at his website www.marslasar.com