Captain Ahab

Captain Ahab were a Los Angeles-based duo known for his or her intense, confrontational concert events and full-on embrace of countless varieties of dance, pop, and rock and roll music. Their concerts contains Speedo-clad hype guy Jim Merson viciously interesting with the masses while consumer electronics wizard Jonathan Snipes supplied high-energy dance monitors with sexually explicit lyrics. Their music drew similarly from underground D.We.Y. lifestyle in addition to mainstream pop music, plus they turned down any notions of musical elitism or guilty pleasures. They explored many designs generally scoffed at by hipsters, including pop-punk, power steel, and various sorts of Euro-dance, and their 2005 tour CD-R included addresses of radio strikes by John Mayer and Avril Lavigne. Their music were funny and conceptual, carrying on in the custom of prior jokey genre-mashers such as for example Sparks and Ween, but with a lot more of the concentrate on techno and rave lifestyle. Snipes started Captain Ahab being a single task in 1998, motivated by noise performers such as Dick E.S.P. and Aube. As time passes, he began producing vocoder-driven electropop up to date by the rising glitch/IDM notebook music picture, and his debut 12″ EP, Bot Pirate, made an appearance on London-based breakcore label Irritant (also house to famous brands Knifehandchop and Jason Forrest). He started performing displays, and enthusiastic enthusiast Merson quickly became the official area of the Captain Ahab live knowledge. The debut full-length The Sex Is certainly Following, which drew from Miami booty bass and Hi-NRG disco, made an appearance on A2 Sound in 2004. The duo quickly became a fixture of infamous L.A. D.We.Y. place The Smell, and started a long, successful relationship using the Deathbomb Arc label. Captain Ahab’s initial discharge for the label was 2005’s outrageously filthy I CANNOT Believe IT ISN’T Booty EP. This is accompanied by the ambitious, genre-hopping idea album Following the Rainfall My Center Still Dreams in 2006. The duo after that won a competition to create a melody for the film Snakes on the Airplane; “Snakes on the mind” appeared in the improved CD part of the film’s soundtrack. Deathbomb Arc also released a Snakes on the mind EP that calendar year. Captain Ahab added to HEALTH’s //DISCO remix collection, released a break up 12″ with Duplicate, and embraced the Belgian/Dutch “jumpstyle” trend throughout their 2007 tour. Captain Ahab’s long-in-the-making third full-length, THE FINISH of Irony, found its way to 2010. The discharge was released in multiple configurations by Deathbomb Arc and Australian label Dual Plover, with modified monitor lists and mixes showing up on each one of the digital, vinyl fabric, and compact disk editions. In 2012, Captain Ahab made a decision to contact it a day time. The duo performed one last concert to some sold-out masses in the Smell in November, with support from Harmful Lipstick, Foot Town, and Books on Tape. Pursuing their disbanding, Snipes made up many soundtracks (including Space 237, that was released by Loss of life Waltz in 2013) and discovered success within the experimental noise-rap trio clipping.