Situationists:
In the past ten years, two time GRAMMY®
Award candidates (Best Electronic/Dance Album)
3kStatic have charted two #1 albums and over 20
Top 25 tracks with releases on labels including
Sony BMG Germany, Sony Creative, Nightshade,
Cargo Records Germany, INgrooves, dPulse, Sick
Watona, TVR and others.
Active on the experimental dance underground in
the age of digital music, 3kStatic was the third
singing to powerhouse label INgrooves, whose
roster now includes Crystal Method, Tila
Tequila, Thievery Corporation, Thomas Dolby,
John Digweed, among others. To date, 3kStatic
has tallied well over 1 million paid downloads
(all formats)*,
and the band's official website @ 3kStatic.com
has registered over 2 million hits since June
2006.
3kStatic has recorded and collaborated with
artists from across the music spectrum,
including: Vile Evils (Graham Crabb &
Adam Mole of Pop Will Eat Itself); Parthenon
Huxley (ELO Part II / The Orchestra);
George Clinton & The P-Funk All
Stars; Kevin Max (dcTalk);
Professor Griff (Public Enemy); Randy
Garcia; Annette Strean of Venus Hum;
Shelley Harland; David Manion
(Kansas, Paul Rodgers); Robert Bond (Bo
Diddley, Les McCann); Jan Pulsford (Cyndi
Lauper, Thompson Twins); Joy Askew (Peter
Gabriel, Joe Jackson); Virgil Howe (Yes,
Future Sound of London, Pet Shop Boys);
Nort (Cabaret Voltaire (live), Hula);
Rom DiPrisco (Skinny Puppy, Richard
'Humpty' Vission) and Greg X. Volz
(Petra), among others.
Cabaret Voltaire founding member and electronic
music icon Richard H. Kirk designed the
cover art for the band's 2005 album
Up /
Liberate.
Presenting ardent social activism in a framework
that draws on all forms of electronic/dance,
rock and urban music, 3kStatic has drawn
particular acclaim in the US and UK underground.
The band's releases have seen greater commercial
acceptance in Germany and Continental Europe,
where the album The
Great
Republic
was named one of the Top 10 albums of 2006 by
Cargo Records Germany.
The 2006 double album Where's
Our Piece of the Groovy
World?
hit #1 (Dance) on iTunes Europe,
and charted Top 10 on iTunes in
Italy, Switzerland, Begium
and Spain; remaining in the iTunes Top 25
Dance Album Sales charts for ten consecutive
weeks in summer 2006. The album was the
first 3kStatic release to be a GRAMMY® Award
candidate.
Recent 3kStatic remix releases + an aggressive
live schedule have increased awareness in the
dance mainstream.
The 3kStatic track 'Groove at the Point of a
Breakdown (feat. Professor Griff and Kasuf &
The Mazz Muvement) was selected as among the
of the Times'
by protest rock legend Neil Young.
The 2008 double album
Science
was also a GRAMMY® Award candidate, and
charted no fewer than 11 Top 20 tracks on
various retail charts. As of June 2009, the
album is #1 (IDM) at download site Lala.com, and
#3 (Experimental) at We7.com. The album was
released in Europe on Cargo Records Germany.
The current 3kStatic album Evolver
was
released February 2009 on Sony
Creative
Software.
The release is the first-ever Sony title to
include a new original album with a complete
sound library of samples and loops taken from
the album.
- JoinedJuly 2007
- Websitehttp://www.3kstatic.co.uk
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