Artist description Three (now two) musically codependent friends in many lifetimes of group therapy. Our karma was to eek sound out of every frictionable surface in the living room, kitchen and bathroom. We often were forced to commit these acts in front of unsuspecting visitors in a hostile electric environment with no shoes on, rolling a 79¢ Beau Monde tape in a bottom-of-the-line $49 cassette deck. Bob quickly bored of his pricey, hi-tech drum pads and found fulfillment in assaulting discarded vibraslaps and New Year's party toys. Gordon finally stopped trying to sound like Rick Wakeman. Tom became Bunny in a dream, and became a cassette tape surgeon in real life.

Music Style Electropop / Technopop / Synthpop New Wave, Electronica, Experimental, Ambient New Age

Musical Influences Depeche Mode, TELEX, Kraftwerk, Devo, Camouflage, Nine Inch Nails, The Normal, Flying Lizards, B-52's, the Cure, Freur, Our Daughter's Wedding, Art of Noise, Deep Forest, Cetu Javu, Thomas Dolby, Nina Hagen, Lene Lovich, Heaven 17, Human League, Men without Hats, Ministry, Moev, Gary Numan, Severed Heads, Siouxsie, Skinny Puppy, Soft Cell, Stranglers, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Ultravox, Yello, the Weathermen, Laurie Anderson, Yes, ELP, Pink Floyd, Queen, Brian Eno, Jean-Michel Jarre, Tangerine Dream, Andreas Vollenweider, Mark Isham, Wendy Carlos, Tomita, Synergy, Stravinsky, Debussy, Mozart, Bach, Leftfield, William Orbit, Fatboy Slim, Delerium, Underworld, Orbital, Front Line Assembly, Front 242; various new wave, electropop, synthpop & technopop bands and ambient new age experimental electronica

Similar Artists Depeche Mode, TELEX, Kraftwerk, Devo, Camouflage, the Cure, B-52's, Art of Noise, Soft Cell, Gary Numan, Human League, Men without Hats, Ultravox, Yello, Thomas Dolby, Nina Hagen, Siouxsie, J-M Jarre

Artist History Bob's Toyota got totalled up an Avenue B telephone pole by a drunk in a Chevrolet, who was trying to get lap service from a local hooker. (Cell phones were years away.) Bob got full book value for the scraps, then bought a Memorymoog for his new primary means of transport. That meant that Gordon couldn't commute to rehearsals with his New Jersey band any more. So he started hanging around the apartment looking forlorn and being annoying, until Bob agreed to let him bring his Prophet around and make some noise of his own. Tom, who was prone to religious-slash-chemical delusions, stopped praying to his Nina Hagen 10-inch single of "African Reggae," and took up genuflecting to the mixer. We wanted that pingpong effect between two speakers, but we couldn't afford any more equipment so we taught Tom ventriloquism and how to sound like our synths (he always did the Moog much better). We eventually took pity on his larynx and bought him a couple of digital delays to play with. To this day he feels lost without the MXR.

Group Members Gordon Smith, Robert Mesrach (you will always be with us, Bobby), Thomas ("Bunny Lake") Rolanti

Instruments Keyboard-controlled WAVEforms, beatboxes, lotsa perCUSSion and digital processors. Did I mention the Commodore-64 and Atari ST computers?

Albums Leg Warmers Reheated (2003)

Location New York, NY - USA

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