Glass Gentlemen

Circa 1998.... Friends Jason Compo, Joel Compo and Joshua Jones began as consumers, gradually becoming more heavily interested in various forms of electronic music. As our interest in music became less passive and more passion, it was seeming more inevitable that we would have to start writing our own music in order to fill this need. Thus we started the band "The Influence". We began with only a Roland MC-303 producing simple and frankly, amateur electronic music. Despite our title, we "influenced" nothing. Seriously, it was pretty bad, but we didn't know that at the time. The 303 did get the job done while we played around but it soon became evident that in order to get the sound we desired it would take more equipment than that. We didn't really take writing music too seriously for quite some time, but we really wanted to sound good anyways, at least for our own piece of mind. Frustrated with the prices of proper equipment and a lack of knowledge of what to even purchase, we dabbled some more, but with minimal success. Over the next few years we explored a variety of electronic music, whether individually or collectively, and began purchasing more equipment while upgrading what we did have, even if only one small piece at a time. Some time passed working on the new equipment and there was a noticeable change in the quality of our recordings. As we saw increased potential and got serious about recording, it was becoming more apparent who would be sticking around for the next phase of growth. So we made changes.

Still under the guise "The Influence", minus one Joel; Jason and Josh continued progressing towards a more well rounded sound. Finally, in 2005, the remaining band members changed their name to "Glass Gentlemen", hoping to reflect our more mature productions. Many of the songs on this page are a bit older but we are currently working on brand new material for a currently untitled album. We should be updating tracks within the next few months. going. In the meantime we've been working on getting a few other projects off the ground. Primarily we've been working on our label, Counterfeit Records. It will be mainly a label sponsoring electronic musicians of various styles. We've also pursued some solo projects. Etre Perdu being Jason's solo work (ambient/trip-hop) and Dr. Brown being Josh's work (DJ/production, techno/progressive house). We're also very interested in working with other artists as far as collaborations and remixes.