Birth name Kenneth James Gibson Years active 1993–present | Name Kenneth Gibson | |
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Born October 8, 1973 (age 51) ( 1973-10-08 ) Occupation(s) Musician, songwriter, record producer Instruments synthesizer, guitar, bass guitar, piano, vocals, percussion Associated acts Bell Gardens, [a]pendics.shuffle, DubLoner, Furry Things, Eight Frozen Modules, Mr. C, Meat Beat Manifesto, Reverse Commuter, Hiss & Buzz, Douglas McCarthy Website www.worldofkennethjamesgibson.com Role Musician · worldofkennethjamesgibson.com Albums The Abduction of Barry, The Confused Electrician Similar People Profiles |
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Kenneth James Gibson (born October 8, 1973), is a musician who has been recording and releasing records since 1994. He founded the minimal techno record label Adjunct Audio in early 2005 with friend Konstantin Gabbro, through Kompakt records. He releases music under the aliases [a]pendics.shuffle, Eight Frozen Modules, dubLoner, The Premature Wig, Men in Slippers, Cascabel Gentz, KJ Gibbs, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Electronic Music Composer, and Hiss & Buzz (with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto). Gibson founded the 1990s noise pop band Furry Things, who released most of its material on King Coffey's (of the Butthole Surfers) Trance Syndicate / Touch and Go Records imprint.
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- Kenneth james gibson this whole time ft don fuego
- Kenneth james gibson something in the way ft kelly johnston ryan crosson remix
- Furry Things
- Eight Frozen Modules
- apendicsshuffle
- dubLoner
- Reverse Commuter
- Bell Gardens
- Adjunct Audio
- Music for Television and Film
- Biographical background
- with Furry Things
- as eight Frozen Modules
- as apendicsshuffle
- with Electronic Music Composer
- as dubLoner
- as Kenneth James Gibson
- as Kenneth James G
- as KJ Gibbs
- as Premature Wig
- as Bal Cath
- as Reverse Commuter
- with Cascabel Gentz
- with Men In Slippers
- with Whoa Buck
- with Bell Gardens
- References
Gibson along with Brian McBride of the drone-based ambient music duo Stars of the Lid, started the band Bell Gardens in 2009. Through the music of Bell Gardens, the two explore the many realms of chamber pop, folk, psychedelic pop, and Americana. He also recently collaborated with Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb on a track called Whispers In on his latest Reverse Commuter album titled Exposure. In April 2016, Gibson released his first full ambient album under his real name titled The Evening Falls on Kompakt Pop Ambient.
He has directed music videos for artists such as Francis Harris and Dance Spirit as well as his own projects Reverse Commuter and Bell Gardens.
Kenneth james gibson something in the way ft kelly johnston ryan crosson remix
Furry Things
Kenneth played guitar, sang, and produced the 1990s Noise Pop band Furry Things. The line up also consisted of Cathy Shive (Bass, Vocals), Charlie Woodburn (Drums), and Chris Michaels (Keyboards). Furry Things released the majority of its material on King Coffey's (of the Butthole Surfers) Trance Syndicate / Touch and Go Records imprint. The band formed in Austin, Texas in 1993 and moved to Los Angeles, California in the summer of 1997.
Kenneth produced the band's first LP titled The Big Saturday Illusion along with engineer Adam Wiltzie (of Stars Of The Lid). Kenneth and Brad Laner (of the band Medicine) produced the second and last LP titled Moments Away which was released in 1998. The band also released two 7" singles and two EPs as well as being featured on the The Kahanek Incident: Volume 2, which was a remix trade between Furry Things and Electric Company.
Eight Frozen Modules
Eight Frozen Modules (also known as 8FM) is one of Gibson's experimental electronic music projects. Eight Frozen Modules' recorded material is a mix of IDM, Techno, Dub, electro, breakcore, dancehall, and Noise. The project started as a side project to the now defunct noise-pop band Furry Things and like Furry Things, was also released on King Coffey's Trance Syndicate label. As 8FM, he has released music on labels such as Phthalo, Planet Mu, Orthlorng Musork, Tigerbeat 6, City Slang, Shockout, Mutant Sniper, Mille Plateaux, Warp, In Vitro Records, Lo Recordings and Tino Corp to name a few.
[a]pendics.shuffle
[a]pendics.shuffle is Gibson's main electronic music alias. Under this alias he creates a mix of minimal house, techno, micro house, and experimental electronic dance music. [a]pendics.shuffle has released music on many labels such as Trapez, Orac, Adjunct Audio, Mo's Ferry Prod., Lick My Deck, We Are, Leftroom, Sunset Diskos and more. As apendics.shuffle, Gibson has collaborated with and remixed a number of other artists such Mr. C of The Shaman, Mikael Stavöstrand, Mark "Blakkat" Bell, Damian Lazarus, Brad Laner, and Vladislav Delay.
dubLoner
dubLoner is a dub project from Gibson. Dubloner's output ranges from deep and spacious dub techno and house to more rootsy dirty dub experiments. He has, as Dubloner, remixed and collaborated artists such as Meat Beat Manifesto, Jack Dangers (a duo of dubLoner and Jack Dangers called Hiss & Buzz), Isaac Haile Selassie, Kool Keith, and Markus Nikolai of Perlon Records.
Reverse Commuter
The first released Reverse Commuter track, The Organ That Killed Me, was released on a compilation titled Grand Slang on City Slang in 2000. There was a gap of no releases till 2003 with the The Direction EP on Hallucination Recordings. Outside of a string of remixes and compilation tracks, there wasn't another official release till 2014 with a new album titled Exposure on DJ Three's Hallucienda label along with a 12" EP titled Vinyl Exposure One including a Doc Martin remix. Exposure featured tracks with vocals by Gibson, Douglas McCarthy (of Nitzer Ebb, Recoil), and his wife Kelly Johnston-Gibson.
Bell Gardens
Bell Gardens is the musical collaboration between Kenneth and Brian McBride of Stars Of The Lid. Through the music of Bell Gardens, they explore different styles such as chamber pop, folk rock, psychedelic pop, and Americana. Their first EP Hangups Need Company was released on their own imprint Failed Better in 2010. Southern Records released their first LP Full Sundown Assembly in late 2012. Rocket Girl released the band's second LP titled Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions in October, 2014.
Adjunct Audio
Kenneth along with Konstantin Gabbro (also co-founder of Orac Records, Zoombézoom) founded the electronic music record label Adjunct Audio in 2005. Adjunct releases a range of styles from Deep House and Minimal Techno to Dub and Ambient. Producers such as John Tejada, Bruno Pronsato, Dapayk, Blakkat, Kit Clayton, Mathias Schaffhäuser, DubLoner, Sutekh, Dilo, Mikael Stavostrand, Mr. C, and [a]pendics.shuffle himself have worked with the label. Adjunct is distributed by Kompakt records.
Music for Television and Film
Gibson composes music for TV and Film. According to IMDB he has music in shows such as Weeds, Californication, and Saturday Night Live and films such as the The Best and The Brightest, Drones, Don Peyote, and 7 Minutes. Gibson appeared as himself as music producer on an episode of VH1's MC Serch hosted show Miss Rap Supreme.
Biographical background
Kenneth James Gibson was born in Canada, grew up in El Paso, Texas and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He first learned how to play guitar on his fathers acoustic and got his first 4-track recorder at age 19. He is a vegan and is married to artist and musician Kelly Johnston-Gibson who he frequently collaborates on various music projects with.
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as eight Frozen Modules
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as [a]pendics.shuffle
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with Electronic Music Composer
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as dubLoner
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as Kenneth James Gibson
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as Premature Wig
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as Bal Cath
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as Reverse Commuter
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with Cascabel Gentz
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with Men In Slippers
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with Whoa Buck
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