Ax

Ax was the single task of onetime Skullflower bassist Anthony DiFranco, who have still left the crushingly loud, psychedelic/industrial noisemakers in 1993 to pursue a far more experimental path. DiFranco have been producing house recordings since his teenager years, and ahead of becoming a member of Skullflower, he’d been liberating materials (on cassette just) beneath the aliases Cultural Acidity and JFK, beginning in 1987. DiFranco’s first looks with Skullflower also arrived beneath the JFK name, with which he stuffed in on acoustic guitar, bass, or drums as required. Personnel shifts resulted in DiFranco becoming pressed into services as the group’s established bassist, you start with 1992’s IIIrd Gatekeeper. After a few even more albums, DiFranco remaining in 1993 to come back to solo function, signing using the indie label Freek beneath the Ax moniker (he also performed briefly with Skullflower’s sister music group Ramleh). Generally, Ax was a rumbling, bass-heavy pile of sludge indebted to commercial consumer electronics, Krautrock, and weighty psychedelia. DiFranco’s 1st recording as Ax was 1994’s Nova Responses, which gathered house recordings dating from 1988 up for this day time. Ax II adopted in 1995, and Astronomy made an appearance in 1997. Following a second option, DiFranco retired the Ax name to synergy with Kevin Laska as Novatron, which continuing on in an identical musical vein using its 1999 debut New Increasing Sun.