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The Knit Separates were formed in 1996 around the duo of Jason Honea (formerly of hardcore band Social Unrest) and Glenn Donaldson (later Jewelled Antler co-founder and member of Skygreen Leopards, Thuja etc.). The idea behind the band was to create damaged pop music based around their love of the Television Personalities, The LEGEND!, The Fall, The Ronettes, 70's Am radio, Sarah Records, The Jacobites and more. Unloved and unknown in their time, their fragmented and flamboyant sound possibly presaged such experimental pop acts such as Ariel Pink and Xiu Xiu. .

The Knitters were formed in 1985 as an acoustic country side project by Exene Cervenka, John Doe, and DJ Bonebrake all of the legendary punk band X, Dave Alvin of The Blasters, and more recently, Johnny Ray Bartel of The Red Devils. The name is a play the on name of the legendary group The Weavers. They released one album, "Poor Little Critter on the Road," in 1985 and returned 20 years later with "The Modern Sounds of the Knitters." The Knitters are a Los Angeles-based band who play country, rockabilly and folk music. At the time of their formation...

BD Blake (aka Daknit) was born in Detroit Michigan in 1978. His love for gaming and music led him down the path to remix his childhood favorites as well as video game music of the time. Daknit, a character game his played as in Diablo, founded the Tarot Guild in 1997 and eventually took the rank of Bard after several sessions of story telling and music composing. Daknit, Bard of Tarot entered the mainstream in 1998 with several Starcraft Techno Remix on MP3.com. From there he moved to the site OC Remix in 1999 and helped formed ground breaking submissions...