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Lightning Bolt emerged from Providence in 1995 as a three-piece art school project. Initially there was Brian Chippendale's explosive, non-stop drumming, Brian Gibson's Contortions-like bass lines, and Hisham Bharoocha's vocals propelling them in a fury of volatile noise and tribal orgy. The group helped found Fort Thunder, a music and art collective, and recorded a self-titled album which is now out of print. Bharoocha left to drum in Black Dice leaving Chippendale with vocal duties. He duly began performing with a microphone in his mouth, the already garbled sound running through a processor which makes his words unintelligible as he pounds his kit. The band recorded only a few singles and laid low in 2000 but returned to the stage with a renewed energy. Their 2001 album, Ride the Skies attempts to capture some of the intensity of their frenzied, post-drum machine sound attack. More important than the idea of traditional songs is the never-ending improvisational patterns between these two skilled musicians and their spontaneous, violent imaginations. "Providence, RI's bass and drums duo Lightning Bolt morphed a Tuesday-night show into a spontaneous street party last week, complete with "balcony seats" on tree branches, cars, and mailboxes, and the average age in attendance thrown off by one thrilled-looking woman in her grandma years." --The Stranger
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Psych Farmageddon band, Future Twin, was brought together by the first all girl moped gang in San Francisco, The Lockits. They became fast friends and were soon waxing synth songs, huffing gasoline and makeing shred tents (the 'e' stands for everyone.) Since then situations have transpired, people were motivated to get up or get out, landslides shifted the conceptual mindscape…but adaptive by design this pirate ship just keeps sailing. We design our lives towards who we want to be, becoming our own future twin.
"With influences such as Brian Eno, Ganglians, and the Atler Set, Future Twin has taken on a sound very similar to mid-period Sonic Youth and reminiscent of the famous psychedelic bands of the ‘60s that came out of the very same area. (Quite successfully, we might add)." --InYourSpeakers
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