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Bocinas
Five Minutes From the Trash EP

The second Bocinas EP featuring the hit punktronica single "How To Buy A Stolen TV" and Black Sabbath inspired "Dem Gross Magneten-Feld."

Check out the Bocinas MySpace page for audio clips.

Released: August 2006
5 tracks, running time 8:05
CD comes in jewel case with no insert

Brickburner
The Future Doesn't Need Us

First and only album from the defunct post-punk/krautrock/no-wave band Brickburner. Sounding somewhere in between Cabaret Voltaire, The Fall, early Kraftwerk, DNA, and Joy Division, the future (and Lansing, MI) didn't need them.

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Released: October 2005
13 tracks, running time 52:00
CD comes in jewel case with 4-panel insert

Brickburner
Live at Mac's in Lansing, MI (10/5/05)

Second to last show and the CD release party for The Future Doesn't Need Us.

Released: October 2005
10 tracks, running time 39:31
CD comes in jewel case with no insert

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Repeating Elements 1
Repeating Elements 2
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Rubber Band Banjo
Repeating Elements EP

Constructed using an electronic drum set, lap steel percussion, and homemade instruments. This is a 19+ minute collage piece of interacting repeating elements where the tracks flow freely into one another.

Released: August 2005
3 tracks, running time 19:08
CD comes in jewel case with no insert

Bocinas
The Gadgets Get Better, The People Get Worse EP

The first Bocinas EP featuring Bocina Izquierdo on electric guitar and strumstick, and Bocina Derecha on zithers, percussion, and vocals.

Check out the Bocinas MySpace page for audio clips.

Released: July 2005
4 tracks, running time 8:35
CD comes in thin jewel case with no insert

Rubber Band Banjo
Hypermutator

Loosely inspired by the mechanisms of evolutionary change in bacteria with high mutation rates, this album was constructed using heavy tweaking of electronic sounds, guitar percussion, shortwave, and natural recordings. Hypermutator purposely fuses and jumps between IDM, krautrock, jazz, video game music, cut-ups, drums 'n' bass, dub, no-wave.

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Released: May 2005
10 tracks, running time 43:32
CD comes in jewel case with 4-panel insert

Various Artists
Proletarian Science Fiction

The first release from defunct MEME Records, now being distributed here, featuring five MEME artists, two songs each. This tracks on this compilation can be described as post-punk, early British industrial, and krautrock inspired electronica.

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Released: April 2005
10 tracks, running time 43:54
CD comes in jewel case with 2-panel insert

Brickburner
Live at DAAC in Grand Rapids, MI (03/5/05)

Brickburner at their peak, opening up for three metal bands, but not sounding like any of them.

Released: March 2005
10 tracks, running time 44:48
DVD and CD comes in jewel case with no insert

Brickburner
Live at Magdalena's Tea House in Lansing, MI (9/4/04)

The legendary performance that was interrupted by Sauerkraut Man, the landlord's drunk brother, with the words "Down Down Down." It's Krautrock, not Sauerkraut!

Released: February 2007
12 tracks, running time 57:19
DVD and CD comes in jewel case with no insert

Rubber Band Banjo
Gather Your Junk Together

An integration of different genres from the electronic musical junkyard (video game soundtracks, jazz, Middle/Far Eastern, trip hop, trash can fusion, sci-fi soundscapes, African, and many others) to form semi-hypnotic, sometimes danceable, and whacked out rhythms.

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Released: December 2002
12 tracks, running time 45:20
CD comes in jewel case with 4-panel insert

Rubber Band Banjo
Hybrid Musical Organisms

Bloop-bleepy Perrey and Kingsley meets Mr. Bungle Nintendo-esque music. Rubber Band Banjo in his rawest form.

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Released: August 2005
12 tracks, running time 55:36
CD comes in jewel case with 2-panel insert