Kemper | zh

Rising from the moribund Cornish slurtronic folk scene, The Kemper Norton Collective first gained prominence through its campaign to redefine South West Water as a range of personal and psychogeographic experiences, rather than a corporate financial brand name. The legendary Radio 3 show Mixing It gave them some valuable airplay and publicity but ultimately the campaign failed. Embittered yet determined , the collective expanded from its Kernow base to bring coastal slurtronics to Sussex and the rest of the UK, using the then-primitive Internet to communicate and gain new followers. Copies of their first compilation album, Season One, were distributed...

The Ed Kemper Trio was an "art" rock band from Montgomery, Alabama. They played short asymmetrical songs with extreme volume, odd meter and long walks on short piers. EK3 played hundreds of shows and completed four Southern/Midwestern tours. The band translated its live show into three studio albums, two of which were recorded at Zero Return Studios by Jim Marrer, who engineered most Man or Astroman recordings for Touch and Go. In addition to the studio recordings the band released one live recording. EK3 was also the focus of the 2004 independently produced documentary People Will Eat Anything. The band...