colongib
colongib
christopher graves runs his kracfive label out of new hampshire. his latest album is entitled "mapping music".

 

 

 

original painting by dimitri fergadis

knots
file under electronic
thousand "prog"
70 minutes

jack schaefer
nadirean@yahoo.com
schaefer has been using building blocks, splicing blocks, tweaking forms, squeaking horns, seeking tech support connecting to a scsi port, leaping on feedback, beeping under bridges and trying to get to rehearsals on time in rochester, ny.

legion of green men
post contemporary
aka incarnate, zeuxis and the painted grapes, empirical sleeping consort, etc... lex and ru hail from toronto where they run the post contemporary label. their debut release "spatial specific" (plus 8/virgin) was released in 1995. their second album,"floating in shallow water" was released in april.

kid606
kid606
while trying to be the youngest person to make power electronics a popular form of music, he discovered rythym after sampling zena-geva and breaking his sampler in the process of making a breakbeat. many many samplers later (the kid currently favors a kurzweil k2000rs and akais3000xl) he joined spacewurm on there quest to "intellectualize" gabber and also started ariel with fellow wurmer v to "deintellectuallize" techno, both projects went the way of andy warhols vital signs so he started recording under the name kid606 for the san diego based vinyl communications label. the rest is "kid-story".
under the big tree
tye dye records
nick peck has written and recorded three albums with episode and is part of the free improv band ten ton chicken. he resides in mill valley where he runs his perceptive productions studio. he has released two albums of electronic music, the most recent entitled "positive signal flow".

chuck miller
chuck miller
although his office is in new york, chuck's work has taken him everywhere his many years carrying out cultural, diplomatic, and commercial missions all over the globe have given him a deep insight into our present world, its problems, and its boundless possibilities. he believes the world is getting better, not worse, and has the facts to back up his conclusions. he recommends, among other things, using "organic coffee picked by people who are treated decently."
phthalocyanine
phthalo
pronounced "tha-lo-cyanine". dimitri fergadis is a los angeles based artist and label head for "the world's first cd-r label", phthalo records. his debut album "navy warships" was released in 1995; a second album is due shortly. look for him on several plug research compilations. dimitri is also responsible for the original oil painting for knots.

electric company
bradlaner
brad laner has a long history in the music business, recording with savage republic, medicine and amnesia. under his electronic alias, electric company, he has released two albums, with the latest, "studio city" released on island/supreme. a compilation of unreleased electronic recordings entitled "personal electronics" was released on his lohd label. a new record is due shortly.

lexaunculpt
peachfuzz
lexaunculpt is alex graham, an orange county electronic artist that has been making quite an impression within the idm community.

eM
foundry site
eM is a pseudonym under which m. bentley records. em's releases have included experimentations with deriving sound from electromagnetic radiation, converted binary data and field recordings of motor sounds and odd phone messages. em has released two full length cds (djinn and greater than zero, less than one) and an e.p. (motor sessions e.p.) to date, and contributed to the foundry release mote. the telecom project is being developed for release in late 1999.

thermal
boxmanstudies
san francisco based artist joshua maremont (thermal, also of freezer, m-1 alternative, dazzle painting, and atoi, and head of boxman label) provided this closing track, complete with a sample of the civilian run-out groove. "a monument of chance", an album of collaborations with seofon, is the first release on thousand.

blectum from blechdom
blech
blectum from blechdom began playing together on halloween 1998, as a sideshow at a costume party. surgery was one option, but the doctors didn't understand, so we opted for permanent detardation of ourselves for the purpose of purposifying the future of the blectum. kevin and blevin blechdom run incomplet records out of oakland.

 

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