FLAtRich has been played on NTS shows including Confusing Mix w/ Josh Da Costa, with She Want No Alibis (1983) first played on 18 July 2025.

Rich La Bonté (FLAtRich) is an American musician, writer, editor. Freebies and other stuff at his website: www.richlabonte.net - Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/flatrich - YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/flatdisk - ReverbNation: http://www.reverbnation.com/flatrich

Rich was lead singer of the upstate NY band the huns (1965-66). In the 1970s, he played bass and sang in the off-Broadway NY and LA original cast productions of Godspell and on the Grammy Award-winning Godspell Original Cast Album (Gold Record) and the Godspell Movie Soundtrack Album.

Produced vinyl for the infamous Moxie Record Company (70s-80s). Collaborated with producer-artists Kim Fowley (80s-90s) and R. Stevie Moore (2009). Created fLAtDiSk SoftWorks as a freeware company in the late 20th Century and has given away free music files on the web since the early 1990s - www.MODSpeak.org and other freeware on www.fLAtDiSk.net.

The FLAtRich handle was given to him by FlipSide Fanzine editors in the 80s.

Rich had several obscure 20th Century releases, including Mayan Canals, Dada 2 and the Kim Fowley Jr.: Son of Frankenstein LP, which he co-wrote and co-produced with record producer Kim Fowley for Moxie Records. The record spawned the frequently rediscovered college radio hit Invasion of the Polaroid People and was later re-released by Marilyn Records on CD as Kim Fowley’s Bad News from the Underworld, still available through Bomp Records .

Rich began experimenting with computers in the early 1980s and created the site www.MODSpeak.org in 1995 to promote the spread of indie underground music on the web. His personal collection of over 5000 mod files was later permanently posted on the back2roots.org site by Amiga computer archivists.

La Bonté released the classic R. Stevie Moore red vinyl single New Wave in 1979 for Moore on a Moxie offshoot (CMI Records with La Bonté’s then-partner Shari Famous.) La Bonté and Moore met again on the Internet decades later and collaborated on several album covers for discs in Moore’s extensive online catalog. La Bonté also contributed musically to the 2004 R. Stevie Moore CD Conscientious Objector, the 2008 R. Stevie Moore version of Pere Ubu’s classic Nonalignment Pact on Moore’s Double CD release A.W.O.L., and R. Stevie Moore & Company's 2009 CD Coo Coo Rockin' Time which is also included in a 2010 4-CD David Fair (Half-Japanese) Coo Coo Rockin' Time box set from Thick Syrup Records featuring 5 other bands and the original 1990 David Fair CD.

Rich released the compilation Greatest Whatever via Amazon in 2009, This Is Rock and Roll in 2010, Closet Frequencies in 2011, and If You Didn't Like The Last One in 2012. Rich (AKA FLAtRich) currently lists over 100 free MP3 downloads at Absolutely Free Music.

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