Artist description We've decided that we'll never be popular for a number of reasons. We can not make enough track in a consistent style to put a sellable album together, Bubba. Our ideal of sound is that of a small radio beaming a weak signal accross the cosmos directly into where it counts, whatever you call it - your mind, your soul, your epicentre or your Shatner's Bassoon...Lo-fi play some of this stuff while you can, it's all due for erasure come January 1 2001, when we're going somewhere else musically, as ever. If you like musicians who try something different in music every time they put something out, we're you're best chum.Try and keep up, Bubba - the floor is moving...

Music Style We try and do everything differently every time. We are terrified of formulas, we can't sleep for worrying about how to move next. CAthy is pro songwriting, I'm for boosting audio quality and making the sound more original. There is a symbiosis somewhere, but that's a closely guarded secret.

Musical Influences Harold Budd, Eric Satie, William Byrd, Squarepusher, AFX, Pram, AIR, Charles Mingus, Slipper, Amon Tobin, Bogdan Raczynski, Ovuca, Harold Budd, J.S. Bach, Vampas Group brothers and sisters, Roni Size, LTJ Bukem and MC Conrad, Paul Oakenfold, Pink Floyd, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Broadcast, Bentley Rhythm Ace, The Fall, Public Enemy, Einsturzende Neubaten, William Orbit, Plaid, The Black Dog, Throbbing Gristle, Talvin Singh, Asian Dub Foundation, Duke Ellington, Funki Porcini, Edward Vesala, Tomasz Stanko, Krzysztof Komeda, Myslovitz, Can, Sonic Youth, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin, Grateful Dead...

Similar Artists Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Harold Budd, Daniel Lanois, Ovuca, AFX, Squarepusher, Roni Size, Talvin Singh

Artist History Recorded using a windows audio workstation with Yamaha SW1000xg and a Soundblaster Live 1024. I used Fruity Loops, Recycle and X-Incarn for my drum tracks.The fx sounds were created around my flat using household objects and a microphone. Additional fx from analogue tapes of feedback loops using Zoom multi-fx unit and AKAI sampler gain control. Virtual synthesis using Reaktor, JX-220, Muon Electron, Pro-5 and Virtual Sampler Pro.Acoustic Mirror, TruVerb, Roomulator and Timeworks Reverbs Waves Renaissance, C4 and Timeworks-X compression.Recorded, mixed and mastered in Cubase.Re-cut using Wavelab and Sound Forge. Remixed using Acid.Mastered using Waves Ultramaximiser +, IDR and TL Audio Eq-1.

Group Members Greg and Cathy. We bitch, we squabble, we wipe each other's best work.

Instruments Recorded using a windows audio workstation with Yamaha SW1000xg and a Soundblaster Live 1024.

Albums We will put stickers on your bus to tell you when it is ready.

Press Reviews "21 new Sensakkruu tracks on mp3.com."The whole thing is changing. There used to be two names: Sensakkruu for the old folks wasted on Valium, Diagram Doctors for bouncy kids high on tartrazine.There's no desire to keep the music separate anymore for Sensakkruu. Real music shouldn't bop between genres. Real music shouldn't be the wallpaper to how you feel, just as much as good art shouldn't be picked to match your curtains. We put everything into these tracks.Since going digital Sensakkruu have tried to cope with the massive onslaught of new possibilities. They've tried to develop their songwriting and their sound craft at the same time.These have been their two driving forces. In most of these tracks you will hear that each of their projects has been pulled violently in the direction of one of these poles. With Acid Sensakkruu always seemed to be producing the nutty breakbeat stuff that only they like. In Cubase they wollowed in repetition and reverb. Somewhere along the line theyrealised that they had no discipline. The platform was controlling their creations. Somwhere along the line they grew to hate electronic music; repetitive beats, slick bass, clean reverb, 303's, 808's, 909's, 101's, wailing vocals...The reason why all this stuff was put on mp3.com was because they felt it was time to bow out of the electronic sceneThat doesn't mean that they're about to quit...On some of these tracks you can hear Sensakkruu experimenting with acoustic timbres, although they never seem to be able to leave electronic drum beats alone. Their experience of listening seems to have taught them that you can go deeper by enticing the ear with the sounds of wood, metal, gut and skin, and that when you are straining to hear, your mind fills in the blanks, makes the sound its own through helping to create it. Digital technology is getting better and better at this.But just when it seemed that they were about to go all-acoustic and record everything by banging cans and sticks over a chamber ensemble (as in their work for the Cheerful Hamlets' production of Clive Barker's CrazyFace) they pull out Volatane, which suddenly contradicts everything... Rhodes, sub-bass, breakbeats, samples. Now it seems that their acoustic experiments were just a period of denial.What next for Sensakkruu? They tell me they're engaging a vocalist and have been working with a new guitarist, making them a four-piece. They're also saying that they intend to finally release their long awaited Veex EP. Although officially sheduled for release in May/June 2000, and was awaiting assembly with cover graphics by PolynomialC, the Veex EP was abandoned due to a fairly weighty internal dispute which sent Sensakkruu off on different courses for over six months.Now the band claim that work has begun again on the Veex EP, with the strict formula of NO ELECTRONICS in full reign - apparently they are to limit themselves to marimba, guitar, percussion and vocals. Seems like a tall story...

Location Warsaw - Poland

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