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Though he was only a teenager when he held down the keyboard chair on punk legend Richard Hell’s 1990 comeback tour, it took some time for Jesse Hartman to get back in to music. The Long Isle native made the decision he’d rather turn into a moviemaker rather, attending film college and composing Happy Hour, which received the Best Brief Film award in the 1993 Berlin International Film Event. He also aimed videos for a number of rings, including Helmet and Xmas. When Hartman do go back to the globe of tunes, it had been as an associate from the Pavement-inspired indie-rock take action Sammy, along with his university friend Luke Solid wood. The group produced a major-label debut, Stories of Great Throat Glory (called after Hartman’s hometown), but break up soon after the album’s launch in 1996. Hartman after that decreased out of view, re-emerging 3 years later beneath the alias Laptop computer, having a strikingly ’80s-affected sound around the EP Users Guideline. That outing, filled with sarcasm and synth-funk grooves, was a taster for Hartman’s full-length 2001 debut, Starting Credits. Reportedly put together with an IBM Thinkpad, the recording presented lacerating electro-pop like “Greatest Strikes,” a danceable tell you a summary of ex-girlfriends, the gleefully bitter “I’m Therefore Content You Failed,” and a robotic undertake the Billy Joel oldie “It’s Still Stone if you ask me.” After that Hartman toured the tracks alone, with just an engineer onstage for business. He released the next Laptop record, The Aged Me Vs. the brand new You, in nov 2001.

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