Artist description Kryptransmitter is a wide spaning blend of differnent Techno and Electronica styles. With works ranging from dreamy atmospheres, grinding industrial pulsing, to Catchy sytnh pop anthems. Kryptransmitter experiements with a wide range of beats, tones, and influences.

Music Style EBM influneced Techno-Pop and Ambient

Musical Influences Kraftwerk, Mu-Ziq, Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, Erasure, Fat Boy Slim, The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, Front 242, ReCoil, MC900ftJesus, Abba, Aqua, Vinylgroover, Faithless, Beck, The Dust Brothers, Autechure, The Shamen, Liz Phair, Bjork, DJ Shadow, DJ Q-Bert, Nirvana, Jurassic Five, Eels, Orbital, The Orb, Madonna, Red Flag, Anything Box, Information Society, Pet Shop Boys, The Smahsing Pumpkins, BiGod20, Army of Lovers, Tori Amos, Ace of Base, Apollo 440, Forgiving Iris, Cake, Cause and Effect, Delenquient Habits, Dee-Lite, Elysian Fields, Komputer, Pual Robb, Kurt Harland, Trent Reznor, Moby, Portishead, Tricky, OMD, Yaz, Ruby, Soul Coughing, Beastie Boys, Air, Kid 606, Jets to Brazil, Get Up Kids,808 state, and of Course Tom Jones

Similar Artists Depeche Mode, Front 242, Boards of Canada, Kraftwerk, The Orb, Daft Punk, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, The Eels, Fat Boy Slim

Artist History Started at the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1996 by Drama Major T. Ryan Arnold and Art Major Patrick Keller the Kryptransmitter was originally a trip hop band. At the time Patrick was listening to and playing a lot of surf rock, when T. Ryan (a long time synth pop and electronica fan), lent him some of his Bristol Trip Hop CDs. The two agreed that the bands like Portishead, Tricky, and Land of Loops had a sound that was worth exploring. Initially they wanted to give Trip Hop an American slant. They worked on several cuts over the summer of 1996 and through the next year. Eventually the band started to explore a wider range of tones and song styles and spent most of the summer of 1997 recording in a secluded studio in Wells, NV. It was late in 1997 that Patrick decided to focus on Music and in particular Kryptransmitter as a central theme to his art studio works. At this point the band's image changed into a satirical answer to coporate music a la the spice girls. And several song/products were produced culminating in a studio piece complete with Pre-Packeged shrunk wrapped T-Shirts, CD's, and Action Figures. Patrick made a video for the song, "Product", which documented the band's ideas about marketing and music (as well as more than one nod to German inovators Kraftwerk). In 1998 Kryptransmitter played their first concert to a sold out crowd at UCSB's Cambell Hall...with more than 800 people in attendance the band played "live" their score to the Llyr Heller/Kim Chui film "fixed in post". Shortly after the preformance Patrick Keller Left the band as an active member to pursue develop his own music under his own name but remains a contributing member to Kryptransmitter to this day. Kryptransmitter, the band name and direction now under the despotic control of T. Ryan Arnold continues to make dynamic new works with the contribution of several musicians. Based in Los Angeles, Kryptransmitter is producing original works and working on Remixes for various local bands and musicians.

Group Members T. Ryan Arnold - Programing, Synth, Drums, Guitar, Vocals Other musical contributers include: Patrick Keller Greg Arnold, Raleigh Arnold, Pat Hayes, Jerry Trainor, and Jon Wallis.

Instruments Casio CT-310, Yamaha DD-9, Yamaha Mini-Synth, Fender Strat, Memphis 3/4 bass, Sing-A-Lo-Dian, PC AMDK 450 Creative Sound Blaster Live Platnum running: Sound Forge 4.5, Sonic Foundry Vegas, Fruity Loops, Rebirth, Drums of Thunder, Sequence 303, Retro AS-1 synth with MK-4902 midi controller, Hamer Head, Rubber Duck, Re-Cycle, and Mix Man Studio Pro

Albums Mad You Say? (as DJ Moat Spring 1996), Kryptransmitter Kaptured Transmissions 01 (spring 1997), Studio P - Wells, NV Sessions (Summer 1997), Kryptransmitter Product 02 (winter 1997, re-released with remixes 1998), Fixed in Post Sound Track (Spring 1998), Kryptransmitter (Current Works and Classic Cuts) Vol. 01 and 02 (Spring 2000)

Additional Info Single Remixes produced for Mighty Like A Rose, Echoing Green, Joe, SLO HIGH CHOIR

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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