experimental, shuffling ambient, glitching soundscapes

1. She Brings
2. Royal
3. Alter
4. Hibersea
5. Part
6. Savage Bees
7. Moke Cene
8. Gate
9. Air Curves Vicious

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Written, Performed and Produced by Mikronesia
© 2008 Kikapu [kpu109]

Gorgeous ambient piano woven with velvet threads of deeply introspective experimental ambient and subtle glitch.

1. Erd
2. No Rage
3. (The) Lye Owl
4. Genre
5. Nyca
6. Lebu
7. Oil Vet

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Written, Performed and Produced by Mikronesia
© 2007 Gears of Sand (BMI)

Debut album from Gemini Wolf. Nine epic tracks of epic rock, bleepy electronics, soulful strings and dreamy vocals.

1. Entanglements
2. Owl Song
3. Noah
4. Bittersweet Dirts
5. Phantom Digits
6. The Race
7. Muddy Brown
8. Sleep, Marchers, Sleep
9. Silence In Our Voices

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Written by Pandar and Mikronesia
Produced by Mikronesia
Mastered by James Dellatacoma for Orange Music Sound Studios, West Orange, NJ.
Mikronesia - keyboards, Glockenspeil, percussion, backing vocals
Pandar - vocals, guitars
Len Maegen - bass guitar
Gary Dann - drums, percussion, backing vocals
Alison Rigby - violin
Richie Frangiosa - cello
Katie Goodrum - violin and mandolin
Bilwa - cuts and fx on "Owl Song" and "Muddy Brown"
Richard Baybutt - oboe on "Phantom Digits", tabla on "Silence In Our Voices"
Trevor Baybutt - french horn on "Phantom Digits" and "Silence In Our Voices"
Spenser Michaels - backing vocals on "Owl Song"

© 2007
earSnake Recordings

Compilation album of local Philadelphia artists chosen by Josh Wink and King Britt.

1. Gemini Wolf - Owl Song

Written by Pandar and Mikronesia
Produced by Mikronesia
Performed by Gemini Wolf
Mastered by Discmakers
© 2007

Concept album about the psychic remains of a car crash. Glitchy, ambient, drones, melodic beats.

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1. Slow Bleeding [clip]
2. Untitled Love
3. Arms Bent (The Detached and Lazy Feeling of Bliss) [clip]
4. Del Rio [clip]
5. Long Walk Up 611
6. Happy Birthday, Goodbye [clip]
7. Softly Coil [clip]
8. Remember/Home [clip]

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Written, Performed and Produced by Mikronesia
Mastered by Ben Fleurer-Steiner
© 2006 Gears of Sand (BMI)

Exciting music from 13 of the outstanding performing artists appearing at electro-music 2006, June 2-4, in Philadelphia.

4. Mikronesia - Arms Bent

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© 2006 Gears of Sand (BMI)

Compilation of Nophi artists and special guests featuring electronic music with vocals, vocal samples or using vocal only sounds.

5. Gemini Wolf - Owl Song (Nophi Mix)

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© 2005 Nophi Records

Debut production work from Mikronesia and Ndugu. Ranging in styles from R&B to hip-hop to ambient electronics, this EP fused the diverse sounds and production styles of Ndugu (John Legend, Amos Lee, Stangg) and Mikronesia (Robots in Disguise, Gemini Wolf). On this EP they feature vocals from Kuf Knots, Jalima and Pandar

1. Moving Light

2. Today

3. Layers

4. S.O.S.

5. Charades

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Written, Performed and Produced by Mikronesia and Ndugu
Tone Whitfield bass on 2,3,5
Joe Breidenstine trumpet on 4
Lamont Calwell sax on 4
Mixed by Joe "Nomad" Bowie
Mastered by David Ivory for Dylanava Studios
© 2005

Dense electronic compositions culled from live performances in late 2004.

1. Ximpler

2. Sundry

3. Canceled Plans

4. Thursday AM

5. Leg in the Backseat

Written, Performed and Produced by Mikronesia
© 2004

Recorded in the Winter of 2003. A very atmospheric and organic album. Many of the tracks have droney mechanical sounds in the back ground with lighter organic instruments playing melodies other places in the mix. As the title implies, its a nice album to listen to while trying to take a nap or other times you need something minimal.

1. Clothes Line

2. The New Dial Tone

3. Pace of Life

4. Pleased to Meet You

5. Orange

6. Mondays

7 . Hetoric Strings

8 . Kelp

9 . Degobah

10. Lighting Bug Fashion Show

11. Kym

Written and Produced by Mikronesia
© 2003

A collection of tracks that lived on five or six different computers. Some of the tracks were done on company computers, laptops (one was stolen, so be on the lookout for renegade remixes), room-mates PCs, friend's Macs. Many of the tracks have dark melodies and samples over skittering and slow bleepy beats and percussion. Some of the tracks have mashed up vocals that are samples of people from Mikronesia's life like the venerable Flakes, on "Earth Two" and Megan on "Moisturizing Vehicle"

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1. Flight Sin

2. Baron Von Bleep

3. Earth Two

4. Moisturizing Vehicle

5. ABCs

6. Bombdad

7. Laim

8. Our Hearts Are Pink

9. Hidden For Now

10. Dutch's Freezing Summer

11. Board Room

12. Jackknife

13. Fear Tide

14. Here Come The Warm Spores

Written and Produced by Mikronesia
© 2002

 

Robots in Disguise's first full length studio album. They starting work on this album after a hectic touring schedule in 2001. The Robots retreated to Folcroft Studios in Delaware County, PA with Joe Bowie (Nomad) and his crew of producers and engineers programming synths, drum machine, computers and anything with keys to make this shimmering, sample-heavy, electo-breakbeat LP that was described by the Philadelphia Inquirer as, "an ecstatic electronic symphonic sheen of samples, silver strings, robo-voices, and freaky rubber rhythms perfect for headphone-listening and nonstop dancing..." (01/10/2003)

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1. Reich

2. X-Ray Vision

4. Thermal Detonate

5. Big Wheel

7. BYKAT

8. While We Sleep

9. Pillars of Smoke

10. Rewind

11. Maam

Mikronesia - keys, production, samples
Joe Bowie - engineer, production
Plunkit - bass, vocals
Hutnons - turntables, fx, percussion
Tony Catastrophe - drums & percussion
Skipmode - turntables
Ghost - turntables
Sonny - drum programming

Recorded at Sound Matrix Studios
Mastered at OurSoundFront Studios
© 2002

 

By early 2001 Robots' had started to generate quite a buzz around the city. They were playing a lot of really good shows with national acts at the Trocadaro and the TLA. When this album was started, Tony G. had been drumming with Robots for a few weeks and they were finally working the two DJs thing to perfection. Tony called Mikronesia and Plunkit one April afternoon out of the blue and told them to meet him at 3rd and Catherine and look for a bright red door to record with this engineer he met that day. They walked through that red door into Jazzy Jeff's downstairs 'Matrix studios' with Joe Bowie at the helm. John, Tony and Mike recorded the base tracks in under and hour. Joe and Mikronesia would then spend days and days chopping up the base tracks and building structure out the sounds of "Mind Control". "Brain" was recorded at Longview and Turtle studios, both known for amazing albums and production by live rock/world/jazz/folk/rap acts, so Robots were their first forays into live electronics. "Dolphin" and "Sister Nancy" are from different live shows in the spring of 2001.

1. Mind Control

2. Brain

3. Dolphin

4. Sister Nancy

Plunkit - bass, vocals
Mikronesia - keys, production, samples
Skipmode - turntables
Hutnons - turntables
Tony Catastrophe - drums
Joe Bowie - engineer, production, mastering
Elad - vocals on "Mind Control"
Whiplash - synth on "Sister Nancy"

Recorded at Sound Matrix, Turtle and Longview Studios.
Mastered at OurSoundFront Studios
© 2001

Back when the Grape Street was on Grape Street and before Y100... The Grape Street Pub was a great place to catch a diverse blend of independent artists and songwriters. Zigabu played one of their first shows there in Feb. 1999 and continued to played there about once a month (as did Robots in Disguise) until the club moved to Main St. in 2003. Zigabü was included in this eclectic CD of rock and singer/songwriter type music as the de facto "experimental" act to close the disc.

17 . Zigabü - Mutha Lovejoy

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Mike Litt - drums
Mikronesia - organ, samples, vocals
Plunkit - bass, vocals
Len Shaw - guitar
Tim Quinn - backing vocals

Recorded at Mad Ferret Studios
Mastered at Masterworks
© 2000

 

Zigabü (1998-2000) was a jam band quartet incorporating jazzy guitar, spacey keys and samples, funk bass, driving beats and schizophrenic vocals. Often described as Pink Floyd meets DJ Shadow, they toured extensively through 1999. This EP was recorded in one weekend in November 1999 at Mad Ferret Studios in Hatboro, PA. Soon after it's release in Feb. 2000 the band called it quits. They split off to form Robots in Disguise and Z in June 2000.

1. Mutha Lovejoy

2. A Place in the Sun

3. Madeline

4. Moment of Clarity

5. Nebuli

Mike Litt - drums, percussion
Mikronesia - keys, samples, vocals
Plunkit - bass, vocals
Len Shaw - guitar
Tim Quinn - backing vocals on "Mutha Lovejoy"

Recorded at Mad Ferret Studios
Mastered at Masterworks
© 2000