Biography
Heavily inspired by the post-punk angst of early electronic/industrial music pioneers, 3kStatic fuses Dadaist cut-up techniques with elements of house, trip hop, and IDM to create an often harsh, inflammatory, and ardently activist social view that has seen its releases reviewed by political journals as well as the music press.
Having recently embarked on a more extensive live schedule that, in 2006, included the inaugural Clover Festival and a night at New York's legendary rock club The Knitting Factory (where they appeared immediately after Ice-T and Body Count), the band's 2006 album Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World? quickly became the most successful 3kStatic digital release - hitting #1 (iTunes Spain Dance Chart) and also charting Top 5 (Dance) in Italy, Belgium, and Switzerland.
The follow up album 'Voodoo Science' - featuring an eclectic swath of collaborators from the rock, hip-hop and electronica circuits, has to date charted nine tracks on various reporting charts.
A long-time staple on the soundtrack of MTV's "The Real World" and "Road Rules", the band released 'Other Ideals: The Best of 3kStatic 1999-2007) in 2007 on the dPulse/INgrooves labels.
Instrumentation
The 3kStatic live line-up and instrumentation vary by situation and opportunity...
Set is scalable from solo DJ/improv set to full live band in a rock/progressive electronica venue, which is preferred...
Previous players with 3kStatic live include Kevin Max (dctalk); Parthenon Huxley (ELO, Part II); Annette Strean (Venus Hum) - vocals, Jan Pulsford (Thompson Twins, Cyndi Lauper) - Keys; Robert Bond (Les McCann, Liberty Horses)- drums and percussion; Mike Pachelli - guitars; Neil Carlill (Delicatessen, Lodger) - vocals; Kirk Cornelius - melodica
Discography
3KSTATIC DISCOGRAPHY 1999-2009:
Not Art (Released 10.27.09)
Warkrmnl (Released 09.08.09)
So What Now, New Soul? (Released (08.25.09)
Sugar Evolver with Kevin Max (Released 07.19.09)
Projected Tones Remixes (Released 04.15.09)
Evolver (Released 02.17.09)
Return to Mono (Released 09.16.08)
Discomaniacs IV (Released 07.18.08)
Groove at the Point of a Breakdown (Released 07.15.08)
The Big Space (EP) (Released 06.20.08)
The Big Space - Remixes) (Released 05.12.08)
Voodoo Science (Released 01.29.08)
Worked Over Nasty: Singles (Released 11.15.08)
Real Over Virtual, Vol 1 (Unreleased Tracks) (Released 06.05.07)
Other Ideals: The Best of 3kStatic (Released 03.27.07)
Pulled Backward: Unreleased Tracks 2001-2004 (Released 04.07)
Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World? - 2006
Cut Up//Liberate - 2005
Monument EP - 2005
The Great Republic - 2004
Perversion: For Profit - 2004
Conspiracy - 2003
Atomic Secrets - 2003
12" SINGLES:
Council Housed and Violent (2008)
Ma-Ma-Ma Belle (2008)
The Music b/w End Of The Reel -2005
All The Way Alive (promo)
Drumbeat Litany - 2003
CD SINGLES:
One Of Us (Maxi) - 2003
Brutal Realities (Maxi) - 2002
Parallel Rush (Maxi) - 2002
Links
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