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Biography of [a]pendics.shuffle | | | Real name / | Kenneth James Gibson | | Moniker(s) / | Kenneth James G., K.J. Gibbs, dubLoner, Bal Cath, Eight Frozen Modules, the Premature Wig, Reverse Commuter, Hiss and Buzz, Men In Slippers, Cascabel Gentz |
Kenneth James Gibson is a man of many personas. Keeping up with him can be a time consuming, yet rewarding venture into sound. As soon as you think you know him and can grasp whats going on, he puts on yet another mask and becomes something else. Always a surprise and never a let down, he gives us what we want but dont expect. A rare stone in todays musical climate, Ken is rolling and collects no moss.
Kens first recordings were as the guitarist, singer, part time keyboardist and producer of the 90s indie rock band Furry Things. He slowly grew tired of being in a band and started producing a slew of electronic mish mash on his own as Eight Frozen Modules. Starting out with a guitar, half broken sampler (given to him by King Coffee of the legendary Texas band The Butthole Surfers), a drum machine, borrowed synths and a four track, Ken laid down an off kilter mix of electro, abstract hip hop, dub and techno.
In 1997, Ken moved from Austin Texas to the big city of Los Angeles, California. After releasing a few records as Eight Frozen Modules on various labels such as Trance Syndicate and City Slang, he gave up the 4 track and guitar for a desktop computer and software. While taking a few years off from releasing music, he learned how to create a new world in the land of computers. After 3 years of not leaving his padded studio cell, he resurfaced with the 2001 Eight Frozen Modules CD Random Activities and Broken Sunsets, a mix of glitched out electro, techno, and idm for the LA label, Phthalo. Since then, he has also released music under the names [a]pendics.shuffle, The Premature Wig, dubLoner, Electronic Music Composer, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Hiss and Buzz (with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto), Kenneth James G., KJ Gibbs, Whoa Buck, Cascabel Gentz (with Argentine Dilo), Men In Slippers (with Mikael Stavostrand) for labels such as Mo's Ferry Productions, Adjunct, We Are, Lick My Deck, Revolver, Leftroom, Resopal, Floppy Funk, Underl_ne, Orac, Mille Plateaux, Planet-Mu, Proptronix, Titbit, Force Tracks, Disco Inc., and Sunset Diskos....just to name a few.
When Kenneth isn't in the studio reeking havoc on his neighbors, he is touring the world playing his music for the crazy kids late at night. Ken lives in Los Angeles, California and co-runs the label Adjunct, part of the Kompakt family. Adjunct is a forward thinking techno and house label releasing such artists as Mikael Stavostrand, Dilo and Gurtz, Mathias Schaffhauser, Sutekh, Franco Cinelli, Kit Clayton, Peter F. Spiess and many more.
Kenneth just finished up a big remix / live project with Crostown Rebels main man Damian Lazarus, which you can hear in Damian's latest live sets. Some of this material will also be making it to vynil in the near future. Kenneth has also finished up his full length Reverse Commuter LP and EP's for DJ THREE's label Hallucination Limited, which will be out very soon, along with some excellent remixes. The Reverse Commuter live set at WMC 2009 was listed as Mr. C's (Superfreq) favorite set of the conference. Also in the works is a Kenneth James G. house influenced EP and LP for new LA label Culprit , a label run by the Droog folks. Another venture is the latest project Cascabel Gentz. This is a duo consisting of Kenneth and Dilo from Argentina. The 2 latest Cascabel EP's have been getting rave reviews from play from such DJ's as Luciano, Tim Xavier, Shonky, Brothers Vibe and many more.
Aside of all the electronic music Ken has been doing, he also finished his first big indie pop record in 11 years under the name Bell Gardens. Bell Gardens consists of Kenneth and Brian Mcbride of Stars Of The Lid. With this project they combine harmonies in the vein of the Beach Boys with full orchestration from a slew of trumpets, strings, pedal steel, vibraphone, piano, guitars and much more to create a wall of sound much like Phil Spectors early visions. | |
Selected discography of [a]pendics.shuffle
_________as:Kenneth James G. ____________
*Your Condition 12" EP : Resopal
*Removing Me 12" EP : Underl_ne
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*Smooth Hair 12" EP : Proptronix
*Lavender Neglect 12"EP : Orac
*The Diligent Puzzle 12" EP : Narita
*Saw Saw Soup 12" (remix by Robag Wruhme) :Orac
*Unclassified Computer Funk Volume One - [a]pendics.shuffle / paradroid spit 12" EP :Orac
*Hypersex.Code 1 compilation : Disco Inc
*Helicopter Hearts LP/CD :Orac
*Electrik Pants- volume 2 compilation : Proptronix
*Adjunct Volume 1 compilation : Adjunct
*XLR8R Presents Wanted Volume 1 compilation : XLR8R/ IRIS
*Real People 12" EP (remix by Ozy) : Mineral
*SonneMondSterne Compilation 05 (dj mix by Wighnomy Brothers) : EMI
*Wighnomy Bros. | Robag Wruhme: Remikks Potpourri: Mute
*FAMILIES # 5 - John Tejada dj mix : Families
*Rampant Passenger 12" EP : Mo's Ferry Productions
*Hot Guardian and the Freestyle Formula 12" EP (remix by Westend Ghetto) ): Adjunct
*Re-Fried Monument 12" EP : Budenzauber
*Do You Copy? Compilation : Mitek
*Sun Is Moving : Adjunct compilation on Minlove
*Framed and Defamed 12" EP (remix by Mikael Stavostrand) : Sunset Diskos
*Summer Sampler part 1 Compilation : Leftroom
*Shes Got Moves 12" EP (remix by Losoul) : Freinds Of Tomorrow
*Lonely Payback 12" EP - [a]pendics.shuffle and Altiply (remix by PSB) : Adjunct
*Pheek - Magda Had a Little Troll remix EP : Clever Music
*Summership Volume 1 Compilation : ZXY Music
*Eloquent Milk 12" EP : Leftroom
*Drumcell / Acid Circus - Brain Wreck remix - System Error 12" EP : Droid Recordings
*Group Trivia 12" EP : Persistencebit
*Receptor - Sieta Vidas Remix 12" EP : Adjunct
*Unhappy Anniversary V2. digital compilation : Unfoundsound
*Looking For Me 12" EP - [a]pendics.shuffle and Mikael Stavostrand (remix by Mossa) : Adjunct
*Mochipet - Disko Donkey Remix 12" EP/ CD : Daily City Records
*Sammy Baker Davis Jr E.P. 12" : Mo's Ferry Productions
*Take Me Higher 12" EP - [a]pendics.shuffle and Mikael Stavostrand (remix by John Tejada): Adjunct
*Dilo and Gurtz - Request / Ave Fenix - Ave Fenix remix : LesIzmo:r
*Unclassified Computer Funk 2 12" EP - [a]pendics.shuffle and Paradroid : Orac
*Superfreq Express (London - Ibiza Return)compilation - Adultnapper Floorescent remix : Superfreq
*We Are 09 - Untitled - [a]pendics.shuffle / Bulgur Brothers feat. Big Bully : We Are
_________as: KJ Gibbs _____________________
*Messages 12" EP : Floppy Funk
*Temporary Construct - KJ Gibbs and I.Read : Adjunct compilation on Minlove
*Never Taint You In My Eyes 12" EP : LesIzmo:r
*The Outlaw Appreciation EP 12" EP : Titbit
________as: Eight Frozen Modules___________
*Daydream Nightmare 12" ep : trance syndicate
*Leftovers from the inside of a circuitboard gone wild 5 song 12" ep : kake mix
*The Confused Designer cd : trance syndicate
*Altered states of america comp : Lo recordings
*Wow and Flutter compilation : city slang/too pure
*The Confused Electrician cd/lp : city slang
*Waiting To Exhale comp. : trance syndicate
*Fabulous Shit compilation : LO recordings
*Mondo crescendo-Young Naked and Very With It-tv screen remix : vroom sound-japan
*Random Activities and Broken Sunsets cd : phthalo
*Axe murderations - daedelus 12" remixes : phthalo
*45 seconds of compilation: simballrec
*Thought Process Disorder:[delusional malfuntion]: Orthlorng Musork
*The Abduction of Barry : 0rthlorng musork
*lemon chiffon 7" / mochipet : tigerbeat 6
*Meat Beat Manifesto: Storm The Studio RMXS cd : Tino Corp
*Bruno Pronsato : silver city remix :silver city 12" :Orac
*Dura Matters compilation : Zod
*Crimson compilation : Terminal Dusk
* Dj , Riddim and Source 12" EP : Planet-Mu
*Clicks and Cuts 4 : mille plateaux media
*Curtis Chip remix : Ad noiseam
*split 12" with guislain poirier feturing vocals by wayne lonesome
and daddy screw : shockout/tigerbeat6
*Shockout compilation cd : Shockout/Tigerbeat 6
*Crumbling and Responding cd/lp : g25productions
*Clinically Yours cd/lp : Plataeux Resistance
*Drop Name Records Vol. 1:Painfree Foundsound Institute
*Autonomous Addicts compilation cd : Designed Disorder
*Rejected Resident 12" EP : Peace Off/ Mutant Sniper
*Morrow Choral Orchestra compilation cd : Designed Disorder
_______as: Reverse Commuter_____________
*Grand Slang compilation : city slang
*Directions 12" ep : Hallucination Limited
*Beautiful Confusion remix : 12" : Hallucination
*Hallucienda Dj Three mixed compilation cd : Hallucination Limited
*Superfreq Express (London - Ibiza Return)compilation - Southern Charge (Sycophant Slag's Remix) : Superfreq
________as: dubLoner____________________
*Selector 12" - dubLoner/polycubist split : SKOR
*Foreign Sway 12" ep : Headinghome Recordings
*To j's head 12" ep : SKOR
*Selector cd : SKOR
*Devious Turnip 12" ep : Headinghome recordings
*Meat Beat Manifesto : retrograde remix 12" : Tino Corp
*XLR8R Presents Wanted Volume 1 compilation (Meat Beat Manifesto remix) : XLR8R/ IRIS
*The Loner's Way : Headinghome Recordings
*Hiss and Buzz - Jack Dangers/ dubLoner colaboration split 12" : SKOR
_______as : Electronic Music Composer____
*Suggested Surgery / Wretched Idea 7" : Planet-Mu
*Abandon Music CD : Planet-Mu
*Children Of Mu : comp : Planet-Mu
*Dance Till a Meal Gets Rotten compilation : Romz record
_______as : The Premature Wig____________
*Endless Dub 12" ep : SKOR
*Give It Up 12" ep (remix by Meat Beat Manifesto) : SKOR
*Hypersex.code 1 compilation Cd / Lp : Disco Inc.
*With Me 12" (remix by Bruno Pronsato) : Disco Inc.
*Believe remix 12" - Ryan Craig : Headinghome
*Place Detection 12" (remix by Mikael Stavostrand) : Force Tracks
*Digital Disco mix Cd : Force Tracks
*DJ Nori Liquid Loft mix Cd : Liquid Recordings
______as : Bal Cath_______________________
*El Acido Disco - hawkeye/bal cath split 12" : Headinghome
*Acid Condenser 2005.01- degeneration me : Molecular Funk Guerilla
*El Acido Disco 2- hawkeye/bal cath split 12" : Headinghome
*El Acido Disco 3 -gun party acid 12" EP : Headinghome
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