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Birth name
  
Kristin Erickson

Education
  
Mills College

Website
  
www.kevyb.com

Name
  
Kevin Blechdom

Genres
  
Electronica, Electro

Role
  
Musician


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Instruments
  
Vocals, Piano, Computer, Banjo

Labels
  
Sonig, Tigerbeat6, Chicks on Speed Records

Associated acts
  
Blectum from Blechdom, Adult Rodeo, Barnwave

Albums
  
Eat My Heart Out, Bitches Without Britches, Gentlemania

Similar People
  
Blevin Blectum, Han Bennink, Kid 606, Noel Akchote, Brad Laner

Music group
  
Blectum from Blechdom

Kevin blechdom


Kevin Blechdom (born Kristin Grace Erickson, 1978 from Florida) is an American experimental electronic musician and performance artist based in Los Angeles.

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Life and career

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She attended Mills College in Oakland, California, where she founded Blectum from Blechdom with Blevin Blectum, an experimental electronic group. In 2001, Blectum From Blechdom won an Award of Distinction for digital music at the Prix Ars Electronica.

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Blechdom also played in an art-rock band, Adult Rodeo, with her brother lumberob, a.k.a. Rob Erickson, and his wife mephany stankins. They released records on Shimmy Disc and Four States Fair.

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Kevin Blechdom's solo release Eat My Heart Out features a 13-minute "musical movie" called Countdown to Nothing, a collaboration with Lucile Desamory.

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Blechdom produced two albums for New York City anti-folk/cabaret group Ching Chong Song; their debut album, Little Naked Gay Adventure, and their second album, Everything is for Babies.

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Blechdom also performs with Christopher Fleeger as the computer-country band Barnwave.

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She collaborated with Chicks on Speed on the song "Wordy Rappinghood" from their album 99 Cents in 2003 along with other female musicians such as Miss Kittin, Le Tigre, Adult.'s Nicola Kuperus, and Tina Weymouth of the Tom Tom Club. "Wordy Rappinghood" became a moderate dance hit in Europe, peaking at number five on the Belgian Dance Chart, and at number sixty-six on the UK Singles Chart. In 2011 she was artist in residence at WORM, a Rotterdam-based institute for avant garde music and art.

Discography

  • 2001 – I Heart Presets - CD EP on Tigerbeat6
  • 2001 – The Inside Story - 3" CD on Tigerbeat6
  • 2002 – Jelly Donuts - 7" vinyl on Four States Fair Records
  • 2002 – And The Tempo Of Doom - 7" vinyl on Unbearable Recordings
  • 2003 – Your Butt - on Dudini
  • 2003 – Bitches Without Britches - CD album on Chicks on Speed Records
  • 2005 – Eat My Heart Out - CD album on Chicks on Speed Records
  • 2008 – The Children's Suite, with Ad Hawk - 7" vinyl on Dual Plover
  • 2009 – Gentlemania - CD album on Sonig
  • References

    Kevin Blechdom Wikipedia