Kenneth James Gibson

Active because the mid-’90s, Kenneth Wayne Gibson has led many musical lives, growing to be known for desire pop and neo-psychedelia aswell as several varieties of techno and ambient music. Given birth to in Canada but elevated in Un Paso, Tx, the multi-faceted designer began as an associate of noise-pop music group Furry Points, who released two albums and some singles and EPs on Trance Syndicate through the ’90s. Their 1995 debut, THE BEST Sunday Illusion, was designed by Stars from the Lid’s Adam Wiltzie, and 1998 follow-up Occasions Away was co-produced by Gibson and Medicine’s Brad Laner. While an associate of Furry Points, Gibson debuted his single digital alias Eight Frozen Modules, which melded space-rock guitars, glitchy atmosphere, dub results, and mutilated drum’n’bass breakbeats around once American electronic performers such as Smaller, Child606, and Laner’s task Electric Company had been needs to gain prominence. Initial 8FM full-length The Baffled Electrician made an appearance on Trance Syndicate in 1997, as do the Daydream Problem EP. Carrying out a move to LA, second 8FM record Random Actions and Broken Sunsets made an appearance on Phthalo in 2001. By this time around, the American glitch/IDM/breakcore picture was earning interest in the underground music globe, and many well-received albums and EPs implemented on Orthlorng Musork, Tigerbeat6, and g25productions. With the middle-2000s, 8FM’s significantly hardcore sound got also created significant dancehall reggae and jungle affects, as shown by produces for brands like Globe Mu (who also released materials by related task Electronic Music Composer), Shockout, and Mutant Sniper. For this period, Gibson also started producing glitchy minimal techno beneath the name [a]pendics.shuffle. Many EPs made an appearance under this name in 2004, and full-length Helicopter Hearts was released by Orac Information in 2005. The task became his primary outlet, with a large number of 12″s pursuing on brands including Mo’s Ferry, Trapez, and his very own Kompakt-distributed label Adjunct. He also released materials under his very own name aswell as Dubloner (a far more dub-influenced alias, which collaborated with Meats Beat Manifesto’s Jack port Hazards), Premature Hairpiece, and Change Commuter. In ’09 2009, Gibson and Superstars from the Lid’s Brian McBride shaped a chamber pop group known as Bell Backyards. The duo debuted this year 2010 using the EP Hangups Want Company, accompanied by full-lengths Total Sundown Set up (2012) and Sluggish Dawns for Shed Conclusions (2014). The Evening Falls, an ambient recording documented under Gibson’s personal name, premiered by Kompakt within their Pop Ambient sublabel in 2016.