3kStatic
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3kStatic is an electronica music group founded in 1999. The group has released over 230 original tracks and 12 full-length albums, and are in recurring rotation on FM radio stations in the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom and Africa.
3kStatic records for the dPulse Recordings and INgrooves labels, with their releases distributed by Cargo Records Germany, ONE Digital, Sony Music and others.
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[edit] History
Earlier 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 in Nashville, Tennessee.
The group's recorded output has 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, TheKnot.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".[who?]
[edit] Concerts
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 aired on The Electric Circus program of the Columbus, Ohio-based radio network RadioU.
3kStatic also was invited to the Cornerstone and Popkomm music festivals in 2007.
[edit] Charts
The groups 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.
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.
3kStatic regularly appears on the Top Artists charts at Rhapsody, where 'Other Ideals:' climbed to #19 on the album sales charts in the Industrial/Dance and IDM/Leftfield genres.
3kStatic embarked on an aggressive live schedule in 2007, appearing in at Winter Music Conference (Miami, FL) and a series of dates including Philadelphia, Allentown, PA., New York City, Atlanta, GA., and Chicago. A live recording of a set from the Philadelphia dates was released on the dPulse label.
[edit] Albums
The band's recent European 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. Cut Up / Liberate, The 2005/06 release that immediately preceded The Great Republic, features original album artwork by electronic music legend Richard H. Kirk, co-founder of the seminal industrial band Cabaret Voltaire.
Their 2004 album Perversion: for Profit; uses audio sampled from the 1965 propaganda film Perversion for Profit, an anti-pornography diatribe hosted by George Putnam and also garnered favorable reviews epecially in Germany, where the band's often aggressive political comment was seen as a throwback to the earlier days of post-punk electronic and industrial music. The German radical newspaper Die Terz described the album as 'working within the system to defeat the system...' [Die Terz]
The dPulse Recordings label recently released of a '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.
Following their 2006 double album Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World? , which was a GRAMMY Award entry in the 'Best Electronic/Dance Album' category, the digital and compact disc release Voodoo Science - also a double album - features 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.
An advance EP of tracks taken from Voodoo Science and released in November 2007, Worked Over Nasty: Singles rose to #7 on the Leftfield genre charts at eMusic, and includes tracks that simultaneously occupied the #1, #2 and #3 chart positions on the Downtempo charts at music retailer Play It Tonight in early December of 2007.
During the recording of Voodoo Science, the band announced the addition of producer Kerwin Young to its ranks. 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 also appears on Voodoo Science.
During this time the band also became the first artist accepted into the AMP Alliance, a music industry trade group spearheaded by Microsoft Corporation, and also began work with SlamJAMZ video producer C-Doc on new music video projects.
The 3kStatic track 'Rail' also appears on the soundtrack of Liquid Vinyl, a documentary of rave music culture that features noted DJs Carl Cox, Mark Lewis and others. The film is scheduled for release in 2008.
