The Fuse Factory | Columbus, Ohio

Our February Frequency Fridays show features culture jammers/mashup band Evolution Control Committee (CMH), electronica-dub artist Doctah X (CMH), and sonic dadists Le Scrambled Debutante (Louisville, KY). Date: Friday, February 3 2012. Location: Wild Goose Creative (2491 Summit St. 43202). Admission: $10. Doors open 8pm. Our Frequency Fridays 2011-2012 season is supported by a generous grant from the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

About the performers:

TradeMark G. (aka Mark Gunderson) is a musician and artist, perhaps best known as founder of the band The Evolution Control Committee in 1986. He is also a culture jammer, equipment designer, software designer, and organizer. The Evolution Control Committee is best known for its copyright-challenging stance, using found sounds to create new musical works at the risk of copyright violation. This made The ECC the target of a cease & desist order from CBS for sampling newscaster Dan Rather, but also earned The ECC credit for creating the “Mash-Up” genre of music (also called Bastard Pop). TradeMark can take credit for those and all other ECC projects, including the development and construction of the Thimbletron, a live sampling performance instrument; the 2003 nationwide release of the “Plagiarhythm Nation v2.0″ CD (which charted #1 in LA, NYC, San Francisco, and put the word “Plagiarhythm” in the Macmillan dictionary), and acquiring and managing the 10,000-record-strong ECC media archives. Over its full history The ECC has produced 16 full-length albums, a videotape, 2 seven-inch records, and even an 8-track tape and a wax cylinder recording. The ECC has appeared on air from CNN to C-SPAN and in print from Spin to US News & World Report. The Evolution Control Committee and other bands The ECC and TradeMark’s other bands have given nearly 1,000 live performances at festivals, concert halls, bars, and galleries in US cities from New York to San Francisco, and in Australia, Germany, Holland, England, France, and elsewhere.

Conceived in the late 1980′s amidst adolescence and inebriation, Le Scrambled Debutante is the “intellectual bastard child” of Allan Zane (WYRM) and Jerry Sutton of the up-and-coming Exit 27 project. From those early beginnings, there were only 2 bedroom recordings sessions that exist on chrome cassettes that never saw the light of day–until recently (see: ‘Vintage Deb (1988-1990)’). Now, 20+ years later, we have the “reunion” of Sutton & Zane…and Le Scrambled Debutante! The “band” consists of Allan Zane (aka Sir Bear Trapper), Jerry Sutton (aka Le Chat Du Noir), occasionally Sid Redlin… and a host of others that come and go. But how would one describe the sound of Le Scrambled Debutante you may ask? Imagine Ono & Lennon’s ‘Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins’, Nurse With Wound, Severed Heads, Virgin Prunes, and other assorted bands and genres, tossed into a blender on high speed, and the lid left off. That’s Le Scrambled Debutante. Pure Sonic Dada and Aural Buffoonery! Despite their extensive on-again-off-again existence since the late ‘80s, Le Scrambled Debutante will make their first EVER live debut for The Fuse Factory Electronic and Digital Arts Lab at the Wild Goose Creative. A live CD or LP of the event is likely to be released at a later date.

Solumenata, consisting of WYRM co-founders Liz Lang (aka Auracene) and Allan Zane with the addition of PBK, have embarked on a new musical journey–taking them out of the “darkness” and into a “light” that is almost bone-bleaching. Six months even before the release of the farewell WYRM CD, Solumenata debuted with their first LP ‘Aeriform’ on the Russian SEALT label in the Summer of 2011. In less than three months, the LP sold out. Solumenata are slowly working on a follow-up CD. Solumenata is premiering with their first live installation.

Doctah X, producer, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, operates the House of Dub Studio. In the mid 80s, he recorded and toured in Europe with Cream drummer Ginger Baker and Italian reggae star, Papa Winnie as well as backing John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, Big Walter Horton as guitarist and vocalist. Today, his style is firmly rooted in Jamaican reggae, rock and blues, venturing deeply into the realm of reggae known as dub. His favorite producers are Bill Laswell, King Tubby, Scientist, Dr. Israel, Dub Gabriel, Liquid Stranger, Roommate and Rusko. Doctah X has been pushing bass culture worldwide for years and is one of a handful of dub statesmen from the Midwest. His live performances blur the line between traditional DJ-ing, band and electronic music performance. His music encompasses Eastern and African sound samples and instruments. Studio trademarks are striking production, emotive playing, thought-provoking lyrics and inventive sound design and manipulations. His latest CD release is Agent from Kabul.