Artist description One-man almost-pop combining musical styles like every musician since birds were dinosaurs. Using loops, live instruments, people and machines alike.

Music Style Jacob Berendes-core

Musical Influences Hasil Adkins, Aphex Twin, Esquivel, Henry Cowell

Similar Artists JS Bach, the Archies, Velvet Underground, Persuasive Percussion

Artist History Ever since I was a tadpole I've loved sound-producing devices of all kinds. Answering machines, tape recorders, records, keyboards, guitars. I am a man obsessed. This is the end of my band history.

Group Members Jacob Berendes - loops, keyboards, guitars, vocals, lyrics, tapes, breathing, eating, digesting, excreting. / All my famous friends - lots of other things. / Everybody - everything.

Instruments Jacob Berendes, a Computer, his Room

Albums Simulated Wood-Grain Vinyl, Robot Moped Dehumidifier, Ordem e Progresso

Press Reviews "[Jacob Berendes] is the nicest person I know" -Chapin Bennett Magazine. "[He is] a real asshole" -Matt Higgins Cyber-Times. "Jake is a walking time bomb. I mean sweetheart." -the Yumi Lee Herald. "I like this new album a lot. I declare it to be the album for the time period defined by this album. People who like music should purchase it or have illicit copies made by friends who have the album."- the Christopher W.M. Hayes Post-Intelligencer. "Jacob Berendes's new album will rock your Iroc-Z like a bullet train." -Allegra Mira Free Press. "[The] new album is a shitstorm of delicate phraseology. [He] will bumrush your crazy affairs with pee-drinking tomato-picking infrasonics and fly beats." -the Anna Louise Berendes Tribune

Location Worcester, MA - USA

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