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

Cut

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

'Songs

of the Times'

by protest rock legend Neil Young.

 

The 2008 double album

Voodoo

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.

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