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---- | | || | | || | | || 3kStatic: // Collaborations, 2006-2009 Press Info / Previous: Disinformation also see: Sonicbids EPK ---- Heavily influenced by the sound, fury and Dada-inspired artistic sensibilities and cut-up techniques of electronica pioneers such as Cabaret Voltaire, Tackhead and Meat Beat Manifesto, 3kStatic is an electronica collective founded in 1999. Having recorded for the Sony, dPulse Recordings, Cargo Records Germany and INgrooves labels (with additional remix releases on the Nightshade Music, Televisionary and Sick Watona labels); solo releases by members of 3kStatic have also been released on System Recordings, Miniistry of Sound and many more. 3kStatic releases on dPulse Recordings are distributed by INgrooves / UMG, Synergy Distribution, AWAL (UK) and Neo (Sony Music Entertainment Germany / Cargo Records Germany). Early in the evolution of digital music, 3kStatic logged more than 225,000 downloads on the former MP3.com, and were named 2003 Artist of the Year by the Mixdown, a weekly broadcast of Vanderbilt University radio station WRVU FM (Nashville, Tennessee). The group's recorded output has been featured on the past several seasons on the soundtrack of MTV's Real World and Road Rules, and has also being licensed for various television commercials and independent films. Notable licensees of the band's music include Pontiac, Hypnotiq Vodka, PHisoderm, The Cleveland Clinic, Edmunds.com and many others. In addition to the ardently activist statements that have become a centerpiece of the band's output, the band has been said to fuse an "eclectic, Dadaist soundscape" into their sound, which incorporates elements of art rock, trip hop, funk and house into an often densely produced collage reminiscent of Dada art. Due to this clash of sounds and activist stance, their work has been described as "anarchist disco" and "post-industrial house" Although their recordings could be considered album-oriented electronica, their college and independent radio singles include 'Drumbeat Litany', 'All The Way Alive', 'Brutal Realities', 'Shattered' and 'The Music' - which charted #1 on various underground dance charts in late 2004. Among many others, additional charting tracks include 'Second Coming (Create Their Own Past)', 'Brilliant Disguise' and the (2007 remaster) of 'End of The Reel' which features Drumfire of Om Records artists Afro-Mystik. In 2006, the band embarked on a more vigorous series of live dates, appearing at the legendary New York rock venue The Knitting Factory, electronic music festival events in Michigan and Tennessee and many others. Members of the band also began hosting and programming the weekly electronic music broadcast CounterprogamFM airing on The Electric Circus program of the Columbus, Ohio-based radio network RadioU. The dPulse label released a digital 'best of' compilation titled Other Ideals: (The Best of 3kStatic 1999-2007). The compilation spans the first eight years of the band's releases, and follows up the band's 2006 release Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World?' which charted in the Top 25 on the iTunes Music Store in Europe for ten consecutive weeks, including #1 (Dance) on the iTunes (Spain) chart. That album includes guests artists Joy Askew, Annette Strean of Venus Hum, Pete Miser, Robert Bond and funk legend and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee George Clinton. On its own, the Other Ideals: compilation went on to chart Top 5 at the eMusic download service, and became the band's first entry on the iTunes Japan Top 100 Album Sales chart. 3kStatic regularly appears on the Top Artists charts at Rhapsody, where 'Voodoo Science' climbed to #10 on the album sales charts in the Industrial/Dance and IDM/Leftfield genres. The band's Europe-only CD album release The Great Republic (Cargo Records Germany) was selected as one of the label's Top 10 releases of 2006, and a recent single was selected for inclusion on the 'Songs of The Times' website curated by protest rock legend Neil Young. Following their 2006 double album Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World? - which was a GRAMMY® Award candidate in the 'Best Electronic/Dance Album' category - 3kStatic released the digital album Voodoo Science featuring guests artists including members, former members, live players and producers of Petra, Pop Will Eat Itself, Public Enemy, Skinny Puppy, The Orchestra / ELO Part II, Thompson Twins, Cabaret Voltaire, Hula and others. During the recording of Voodoo Science, the band announced the addition of producer Kerwin Young to its collective of artists. A member of Public Enemy's Bomb Squad production team, Young produced numerous entries in the Public Enemy catalog. He also produced albums for Professor Griff, who appears on Voodoo Science. Sony Creative Software released the latest 3kStatic studio album Evolver on February 17, 2009. The album is the first-ever Sony release of a full original album with a complete sound library of each album track. 'Projected Tones', the first single from Evolver, will be released on the Nightshade Limited label March 27, 2009. The single features remixes from Aaron Lee, Kris B v. Nosmo and others. Additional singles from Evolver include Sugar Evolver (feat. Kevin Max) - released 07.21; So What Now, New Soul? (releasing 08.25) and Warkrmnl (releasing 09.01). endless static spirits talking cut up / liberate < .:: SUPPORT DATA :. > ---- CATALOG: Since its inception in 1999, 3kStatic and its members have produced and released hundreds of original tracks, with releases (and member solo releases) on a constellation of dance and electronica labels, including: dPulse; Sony BMG; Ingrooves; Sick Watona; Climax, CP Recordings, 3Beat/Polotik; System Recordings; Nightshade; Televisionary; Global Underground; Basiclux; Ministry of Sound; Cargo Records (Germany) and assorted compilations. 3KSTATIC ALBUM AND EP RELEASES 2003-2009 REMIXES, 2006-2009 (2009 DPULSE) COLLABORATIONS, 2006-2009 (2009 DPULSE) *EVOLVER (DIGITAL VERSION) (2009 DPULSE) NOT ART (2009 DPULSE) WARKRMNL (2009 DPULSE) PROJECTED TONES (DIGITAL SINGLE) (2009 DPULSE) SO WHAT NOW, NEW SOUL? (2009 DPULSE) SUGAR EVOLVER (FEAT. KEVIN MAX) (2009 DPULSE) PROJECTED TONES (REMIXED) (2009 Nightshade Limited) EVOLVER (2009 Sony Creative Software) VOODOO SCIENCE (ALBUM) (2008 dPulse/Cargo Records)* MA-MA-MA BELLE FEAT. PARTHENON HUXLEY (REMIXES) (2008 dPulse) RETURN TO MONO (SINGLE) (2008 dPulse) LIQUID VINYL SOUNDTRACK (2008 INgrooves) DISCOMANIACS IV (2008 Sick Watona) GROOVE AT THE POINT OF A BREAKDOWN, PT.2 (2008 dPulse/INgrooves) THE BIG SPACE (CHANNEL REMIX) (2008 Televisionary Records) THE BIG SPACE (REMIXES) (2008 Nightshade Music) COUNCIL HOUSED AND VIOLENT FEAT. VILEEVILS (SINGLE) (2008 dPulse/Cargo Records) MA-MA-MA BELLE FEAT. PARTHENON HUXLEY (12 "SINGLE) (2008 dPulse/Cargo Records) COUNTERPROGAMMING FEAT. GREG X. VOLZ (SINGLE) (2008 dPulse/INgrooves) VOODOO SCIENCE (SINGLE) (2008 dPulse/INgrooves) WORKED OVER NASTY: SINGLES (2007 dPulse/INgrooves) PULLED BACKWARD (UNRELEASED TRACKS 2001-2004) (2007 dPulse/INgrooves) REAL OVER VIRTUAL, VOL 1 (UNRELEASED TRACKS 1999-2003) (2007 dPulse/INgrooves) LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA (2007 dPulse/INgrooves) OTHER IDEALS: THE BEST OF 3KSTATIC (1999-2007) (2007 dPulse/INgrooves) WHERE'S OUR PIECE OF THE GROOVY WORLD? (2006 dPulse/INgrooves/Neo) * CUT UP // LIBERATE (2005 -2006 dPulse/INgrooves) MONUMENT (EP) (2005 dPulse/INgrooves) THE GREAT REPUBLIC (2005 dPulse/Cargo Records Germany)•• PERVERSION: FOR PROFIT (2004-2005 dPulse/Sony BMG/Cargo Records Germany) NTZ: DELUSIONAL SOUND APPRECIATION (2003 INGrooves) ATOMIC SECRETS (2003 INgrooves) CONSPIRACY (2003 INgrooves). * - GRAMMY® AWARD CANDIDATE (BEST ELECTONIC/DANCE ALBUM) •• SELECTED AS ONE OF TEN BEST ALBUMS OF THE YEAR, CARGO RECORDS GERMANY A complete 3kStatic discography is available here DIGITAL RELEASES: 3kStatic singles and album releases are currently available on all major digital music retailers worldwide via distributors INgrooves/One Digital/UMG and in Europe AWAL, NEO MCC GmbH (Sony BMG Germany; Cargo Records Germany). The 2004-2005 CD and digital release Perversion: For Profit is the best-selling 3kStatic album to date, while the double album Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World? is the best chart performer - hitting Top 10 across Europe upon release, including #1 (iTunes Spain). Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World? remained in the Top 20 in Spain, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland since entry in August 2006. The previous top-charting release was Atomic Secrets, which hit #17 (Summer 2004) on the iTunes Germany Top 100 Electronic Album Sales chart. CD/VINYL RELEASES: All 3kStatic CD and vinyl releases are available via dPulse Recordings. Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World?, Perversion: For Profit and Cut Up//Liberate are distributed in the US, UK and Japan by Synergy Distribution. Perversion: For Profit, The Great Republic and Voodoo Science are available in Continental Europe via Neo, Cargo Records Germany and Sony BMG. RADIO/DJ/AIRPLAY CHARTS: Indie & college radio / internet radio and DJ chart milestone singles: Remixes, 2006-2009 - #1 lala (IDM); Top 5 eMusic (Multiple Genres); #10 Juno (Electro House) Collaborations, 2006-2009 - #1 Juno (Rock/Indie); #6 eMusic (IDM); #7 (Leftfield) Evolver - #1 lala (IDM); #6; eMusic (Leftfield) Ma-Ma-Ma Belle feat. Parthenon Huxley - #10 (Dance) Cashbox/zipDJ (December 14 2009) Evolver (Digital Version - #1 lala (IDM); #3 eMusic (Leftfield) (November 2009) Projected Tones (Original Mix) - #10 (Dance / zipDJ Canada; #26 US (zipdj)) August 31 - Sept 6 2009 So What Now, New Soul? - #15 eMusic (Downtempo - (August 2009) Sugar Evolver feat. Kevin Max - #8 eMusic (IDM); #3 lala (IDM) (July .2009) Projected Tones - #5 ProgressiveHouse.com (March 2009); #6 Juno (May 2009) #19 eMusic; #11 (Release Promo) (02. 2009) Ma-Ma-Ma Belle feat. Parthenon Huxley - #9 eMusic (House) (October 2008) Return To Mono - #2 eMusic (IDM) (September 2008) Groove at the Point of a Breakdown feat Professor Griff - #15 Juno (July 2008) The Big Space Remixes (EP) #7 ProgressiveHouse; #3 Juno (May 2008) Voodoo Science (LP) #1 Lala, #1 We7, #3 eMusic, #3 Juno, #31 AudioJelly, #1 PlayItTonight, #10 Rhapsody (February-March 2008 / August and December 2009) Council Housed and Violent feat. vileevils - #1 PlayDigital (February-March 2008 4 weeks #1) Showdown feat. Parthenon Huxley #1 PlayitTonight (January 29 -September 20 2008 - 31 weeks #1) Ma-Ma-Ma Belle feat. Parthenon Huxley - #5 eMusic, #3 Juno (February 2008) Counterpgramming feat. Greg X. Volz - #1 eMusic, #1 PlayItTonight (January 2008) #5 DJtunes (March 2008) How Underground (Do You Really Want To Be?) #6 PlayItTonight (December 2007) Shot Noise #5 PlayItTonight (November 2007) Voodoo Science (Single) #1 PlayItTonight, #3 eMusic (December 2007) The Big Space (Datguy Remix) - #14, Release Promo DJ Chart (December 2007) Where's Our Piece of The Groovy World? #1 iTunes (Dance) September-October 2006 Second Coming (Create Their Own Past) (Joel Armstrong Mix) - Peak Position - #4 - Electric Circus (Dance Chart) (September 2006). 18 weeks in Top 20. Temple (J-Punch solo track) (Peak Position - #2 US - MusicChoice Dance Chart) See What I've Done (featuring J-Punch) (Peak Position: #41, Balance Record Pool - 2006) Shattered (Hook The Captain Mix) (Peak position: #8 US - February 2006, #15 Portugal) The Music (Peak Position: #1 US (4 weeks- 2004), #10 UK Secret Society - Peak Position - #9 - 2004) All The Way Alive (Peak Position - #2 - 2004) Drumbeat Litany (Pacific Mile Remix) (PeakPosition - #3 US, #12 UK - 2003) LICENSING : For the past several seasons, the music of 3kStatic has been featured on the MTV reality series 'The Real World' and 'Road Rules'. In addition, Nokia, Hpnotiq Liquers, PHisoderm, Edmunds.com, The Cleveland Clinic and Pontiac. have all licensed 3kStatic music for commercial use. 3kStatic works have also appeared on the soundtracks of several indepenednt films, most notably the highly acclaimed comedy 'Townies' and the new dance music history documentary Liquid Vinyl. SELECTED REVIEWS: The Daily Vault (Vish Iyer) Where's Our Piece Of The Groovy World? is a 22-song double-disc offering by 3K Static that offers almost everything modern dance music has to offer, thus lying in the fringe between frivolous club music and moody rock-influenced experimental electronic music. Revolt Magazine (Tim Bennett) Owning this album is more like owning a painting or a piece of art than a typical album. There are many different angles to see it from; strictly musically, artistically, a political statement, or simply as a huge blanket of sound to fill the background of parties, dinners and long drives. A major bonus is that unlike some other bands in this genre, 3kStatic performs regularly, and with dates across the US and Europe in small intimate venues, it could make for an intense experience. Aiding & Abetting (Issue #276) ...the classy and creative arrangements here are hard to resist. Put a little thought into your next trip to the club. Exclusive Magazine (Russell Trunk) In a music culture often dominated by the nameless, faceless legions of acts in search of the "Next Big Hit" - but with nothing in particular to say - comes Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World?, the brand new double album from dPulse Recordings/INgrooves/Neo artists 3kStatic. Featuring nearly two dozen guest artists, remix producers and collaborators from across the music spectrum - and drawing on the influence of Dadaist art and electronic music pioneers like Cabaret Voltaire, Meat Beat Manifesto and Tackhead - Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World? is anything but typical radio fare. Incorporating organic elements of funk, house, trip-hop and orchestral rock, 3kStatic follows up the success of the 2004-2005 discs Perversion: For Profit (digital sales over 11,000 units), The Great Republic and Cut Up // Liberate (featuring original album art by Richard H. Kirk) with a definitive 22-track statement that reasserts the message - and the means to put that message across. 3KSTATIC SUPPORTS: Dada Online - Are you an 'anti'-man? League of Young Voters -providing cultural capital and political savvy to reinvent progressive politics. Situationist International - Art / Agitation SuDance - Globa DJs for Sudan Modern Art Music Movement - Artists united in the marketing of peace HOME * Sales information courtesy Neilsen Soundscan, September 2005. < end data feed >