Artist description Two members one manning the reel to reel and one wielding the mighty effects processors

Music Style very discordant, chaotic, and hypnotic

Musical Influences Throbbing Gristle, Coil, Current 93, Nurse With Wound

Similar Artists Coil, Nurse With Wound, Current 93

Artist History Threshing Floor was conceived and started in 95. The primary artist, Michael Congdon began his musical creative wanderings with the band Thrush (now known as Ruined) with Eric Johnson, Eric White, and Jeff March. Before Michael left Albuquerque, in the summer of 95, he purchased a very old reel-to-reel and let the wonders of chaos take over. After moving to Florida and becoming estranged with his fellow collaborators, Michael spent every waking moment for the next 5 months watching his experiments birthing process. Soon to follow was 90 minutes + on various tapes and reels. In the winter of 95 Michael was reunited Eric Johnson. With Erics keyboard and a simple DAT machine, they began to rerecord and remix all of the tracks Michael had created. Difficult at times, with a sense of Throbbing Gristles basic concepts, Threshing Floor is its own being. Allowing natural patterns to find their own rhythm, and sounds as simple as water dripping, and a kitchen clock ticking, Threshing Floor remains very discordant, chaotic, and hypnotic. There are no electronic sounds created specifically for the music, although loops of random CD tracks exist as background noise on some of the tracks. Michael Congdon is still working on music along the same line and style, yet a little upgraded and updated.

Group Members Micheal Congdon (Keyboards, tape machines and vocals), Eric Johnson (production)

Instruments Tascam reel to reel, Roland JP-8000, Roland XP-10, Alesis QSR, Ensoniq Asr-10

Albums Cataclysmic Birth, Asphyxia, Left Of Heaven

Press Reviews none available

Additional Info A member of Ruined Nation

Location Seattle, WA - USA

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