Aidan Girt

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Occupation(s) Musician Role Musician Name Aidan Girt		Years active 1996–present Instruments Drum kit, Percussion


Also known as 1-Speed Bike, Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike Labels Kranky, Constellation, Broklyn Beats Associated acts Godspeed You! Black EmperorExhaustA Silver Mt. Zion Music groups Godspeed You! Black Emperor (Since 1995), Exhaust, Set Fire to Flames, Bakunin's Bum Genres Instrumental rock, Electronica, Experimental rock Albums Droopy Butt Begone!, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like, 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!, F♯ A♯ ∞, Yanqui UXO

Aidan Girt is a Canadian drummer for the Montreal-based post-rock collectives Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Exhaust. He is also a solo electronic artist under the moniker 1-Speed Bike and occasionally Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike. He is currently known as OSB, and sells music via his Bandcamp page.

Girt has played drums as a guest musician on the debut album of A Silver Mt. Zion.

He was also the original singer for 1980s Ottawa punk band The Trapt and drummer for Anal Chinook with Gavin McInnes.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

F♯A♯∞ (1997, Constellation Records)

Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada (1999, Constellation)

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (2000, Constellation)

Yanqui U.X.O. (2002, Constellation)

'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend! (2012, Constellation)

Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress (2015, Constellation)

230596 7" cassette (1996, self-released)

Exhaust (1998, Constellation)

Enregistreur (2002, Constellation)

Grenadilla Splinters (2011, self-released)

He Has Left Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms... (2000, Constellation)

Droopy Butt Begone! (Constellation Records, 2000)

I'm a Pretzel on a Stealth Mission to Kill the President (Broklyn Beats, 2002)

Limp Penis (Self released, 2003)

El Gallito (Broklyn Beats, 2004)

Klootzak Keizer (Broklyn Beats, 2005)

Someone Told Me Life Gets Easier in Your 50's (Broklyn Beats, 2005)

A Swimmer in the Ocean Is Not Afraid of the Rain (Bully Records, 2006)

Pashto Translator Needed (Self released, 2010)

"This Country is Torture" (Bad Panda Records, 2011)

Robbery EP (Self released, 2013)

Untitled 12" (Toolbox, 2002)

Looks Like Velvet, Smells Like Pee (Broklyn Beats, 2002)

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