The Opiates | ms

The Opiates are Robert Solheim and Billie Ray Martin. The Opiates started with the intention of being an ambient project. Bored, they soon said: f…ck this, and wrote the kind of songs that moved them in cerebral as well as booty shaking ways. Their forthcoming album ‘Hollywood Under The Knife’ explores paths pioneered by the Chicago house and Detroit techno heroes, not least Electribe 101, with the aim of taking things forward a step in history. Although Kraftwerk and Yazoo have been mentioned as influences, their very unique brand of electronic music is as much Carpenters as it is cutting-edge...

News: The story of KO is being written now at: http://www.tumblr.com/blog/krushedopiates Unreleased tracks at: https://www.youtube.com/user/krushedopiates KO began as a collaboration between D. Smith (Opiate Receptor) and Al Warr (Krush-R), who met online through the now-defunct music site mp3.com. In 1999 they put out a self-released CD-R entitled Stress Monkey, which featured tracks from KO and both of their solo projects. In 2001, Kevin Breidenbach (skin contact) was added to the lineup- he had previously been involved in a project with D. called Skin Receptor. They recorded some new material, and reworked some older KO tracks to be released on the...