Artist description Station Drift endeavors to explore the infinite realms of sound and music without restraint. Utilizing all forms of sound generation, manipulation, and compositional techniques. Redefining the traditional and modern methods, while striving to innovate and execute those that have yet to be realized. Creating music that defies the norm and competently carries forth the torch of the avant-garde.

Music Style Experimental Electronic Music (including Noise, Fractal, Serial, Generative, Atonal, Chance, Musique Concrète, ad infinitum).

Musical Influences Merzbow, Jimi Hendrix, Tangerine Dream, Frank Zappa, Robert Fripp, Kraftwerk, Buckethead, Brian Eno, Art of Noise, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Edgard Varèse, Masonna, Klaus Schulze, Black & Decker, Wendy Carlos, Jean Michel Jarre, The Beatles, Steve Roach, Luigi Russolo, Steely Dan, Milton Babbit, Gary Numan, Harold Budd, Coil, KAZ, Cabaret Voltaire, John Carpenter, Can, Mike Patton, Tabata, Morton Subotnick, Ryoki Ikeda, Daryl Dragon, Ramon Sender, Mark Isham, Argent, Terry Riley, Franz Liszt, Tar, Vangelis, Les Paul, Alberto Ginastera, Vince Clarke, Pierre Boulez, Mr. Bungle, Pink Floyd, Roger Sessions, Mike Post, Philip Glass, The Who, Ludwig van Beethoven, Steve Reich, Herbert Eimert, Robert Beyer, Erik Satie, Gary Wright, Alan Licht, UK, Béla Bartók, Public Enemy, Amphetamine, Bernard Herrmann, Sears Craftsmen, Richard Strauss, Deep Purple, Pierre Schaeffer, George Martin, Yamatsuka Eye, Depeche Mode, Herbie Hancock, Gong, Phil Ramone, Johannes Brahms, Dwarves, Soft Machine, Arnold Schoenberg, Pierre Henry, Vertigo, Isao Tomita, Dudley Moore, Aube, Jan Hammer, Chrome, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Lothar & the Hand People, Niccolò Paganini, Briggs & Stratton, Joseph Schillinger, The Beach Boys, Ruins, Geoff Emerick, Nirvana, Johann Sebastian Bach, Boredoms, Godley & Creme, George Frideric Handel, Shellac, Mike Oldfield, Giorgio Moroder, Manfred Mann, Les Claypool, Vladimir Ussachevsky & Otto Luening, Rick Rubin, Abenaki, Alan Howarth, Tommy James, Unsane, Richard Wagner, Grandmaster Flash, Michael Omartian, Ennio Morricone, Billy Thorpe, Angelo Badalamenti, Killdozer, Anton Webern, Dimitri Tiomkin, Michael Jackson, Kronos Quartet, Samuel Barber, Adrian Belew, Aaron Copland, Parliament/Funkadelic, Trevor Rabin, Prince, Jens Johansson, Otomo Yoshihide, Andrew Lloyd Weber, Devo, Modest Mussorgsky, ELP, Henry Mancini, Tom Schultz, Billy Preston, Leith Stevens, Afrika Bambaataa, Franz Waxman, Arsenal, Gentle Giant, Miles Davis, John Klemmer, Gil Melle, Pete Townshend, Walter Scharf, Yes, Leonard Bernstein, Edgar Winter, Vince Guaraldi, Danny Elfman, Steve Miller, Hans Zimmer, Todd Rundgren, Elmer Bernstein, Michael Hoenig, Jerry Goldsmith, Peter Gabriel, Max Steiner, Gustav Holst, John Williams, Dave Brubeck, Tony Levin, Fifty Foot Hose, Lalo Schifrin, Jane Child, Magma, Clara Rockmore, Thomas Dolby, Ornette Coleman, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Franz Josef Haydn, Stevie Wonder, Howard Jones, Steve Vai, Charlie Parker, Nuno Bettencourt, Claude Debussy, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Quincy Jones, Van Halen, Ron Grainer, John Coltrane, Beastie Boys, Dmitri Shostakovich, Cecil Taylor, Isaac Hayes, Benjamin Brittan, David Foster, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, Joe Zawinul, Delia Derbyshire, George Duke, Dick Mills, Ian Underwood, Paul Hindemith, Bob Ezrin, Greg Phillinganes, Queen, Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Arturo Toscanini, Walter Piston, Rush, Bill Evans, The United States Of America, Craig Anderton, Henry Mancini, Sun Ra, Abraham Laboriel, Connor Freff Cochran, Robert Johnson, Mike Boddicker, Chick Corea, Nile Rodgers, Steve Stevens, Phil Spector, Jim Helms, Jimmy Haskell, Barry De Vorzon, Larry Fast, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Patrick O'Hearn, Reeves Gabrels, Louis & Bebe Barron, Moby, György Ligeti, Herb Alpert, Gottfried Michael Koenig, Björk, Silver Apples, Denny Zeitlin, Alexander Courage, Thelonious Monk, Carl Kamp, Paul Gervais, Duke Levine, Dr. John, Max Mathews, Emile Tobenfeld, Jimmy Hotz, Laurie Spiegel, Bob Melvin, Jim Johnson, Phil Thompson, Tim Conrardy, Phil Jackson, Paul Whalley, Ross Bencina, H.R.Giger, Frank Frazetta, Boris Vallejo, Roger Dean, Olivia DeBerardinis, Salvador Dali, M.C. Escher, Andy Warhol, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Kevin Bacon, Fritz Lang, Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Wise, James Cameron, Rod Serling, Monty Python, David Cronenberg, Tim Burton, Roman Polansky, Mel Brooks, Oliver Stone, Ridley Scott, Walter Hill, Franco Zeffirelli, Brian De Palma, Stephen Spielberg, Kevin Smith, Francis Ford Coppola, George Pal, Howard Hawks, Martin Scorsese, William Shakespeare, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Dalto Trumbo, Ursula K. Le Guin, Edgar Allen Poe, William S. Burroughs, Douglas Adams, William Gibson, George Orwell, Dr. Seuss, William Goldman, Lewis Carroll, H.G. Wells, Michael Crichton, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Jules Verne, Gene Roddenberry, HP Lovecraft, Antoinette Giannini, Timothy Leary, Don "Mr. Wizard" Herbert, Dr. Wayne J. Kirby, Jesus Christ, etc.

Similar Artists Merzbow, Karlheinz Stockhausen, John Cage, Coil, Robert Fripp, Kraftwerk, Arnold Schoenberg, Erik Satie, Buckethead, Philip Glass, Vangelis, Frank Zappa, Tangerine Dream, Masonna, Brian Eno, etc.

Artist History To whom we owe our future: Dr. Robert A. Moog, Leon Theremin, Harry Nyquist, William R. Hewlett, John T. Mullin, S. Joseph Begun, Malcolm Cecil, Kevin Braheny, Rex Probe, Bob Margouleff, Emile Berliner, Ernst Zacharias, Ben Miessner, Dr. Amar Bose, Serge Tcherepnin, Tadao Kashio, Donald Buchla, Dr. David A. Luce, Alan R. Pearlman, Thomas Oberheim, Dave Rossum, Scott Wedge, Bruce Crockett, Al Charpentier, Bob Yannes, Masukichi Akai, Mario & Piero Crucianelli, Kim Ryrie, Peter Vogel, Tony Furse, Tsutomu Katoh, Tadashi Osanai, Fumio Mieda, Raymond Kurzweil, Roger Linn, Carmine J. Bonanno, John Simonton, Doug Curtis, Wolfgang Palm, Peter Zinovieff, Dave Cockrell, Jeff Murray, Dale Blake, Norman Milliard, Dennis Daugherty, Hal Alles, Mercer 'Stoney' Stockell, Kevin Doren, Wing Moi, Jerry Kaplan, Jerome Markowitz, Ikutaro Kakehashi, Dave Smith, John Bowen, Nyle Steiner, Edward Fredkin, Marvin Minsky, Mike Coxhead, Clive Button, David McLey, James Stephenson, Jr., Sandy Lamantia, Brian Swindells, Ed Dyer, Mike Skubic, Rick Arial, Tim Ryan, Don Lieberman, Hal Danziger, Herman Helmholtz, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Leonardo da Vinci, Alexander Graham Bell, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Georg Simon Ohm, Sir Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking, Laurens Hammond, Homer Dudley, Christian Doppler, Harry Olsen, Hebert Belar, Raymond Scott, Elisha Gray, Mathias Hipp, Dr. Thomas Rhea, Thaddeus Cahill, Harald Bode, Herbert A. Deutsch, Leslie Bradley, Harry Chamberlin, Sydney Alonso, Cameron Jones, Jon Appleton, Torakusu Yamaha, John Chowning, Keith Barr, Ferruccio Busoni, Lee de Forest, John Ambrose Fleming, John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, William Shockley, Jack Kilby, Bob Noyce, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz, Federico Faggin, Marcian E. (Ted) Hoff, Stan Mazor, Dr. James A. Moorer, Harold Rhodes, Don Leslie, Mike Matthews, Jack Tramiel, John Presper Eckert, John W. Mauchly, Howard Aiken, Konrad Zuse, Werner Meyer Eppler, Friedrich Trautwien, Armand Givelet, Eduard Eloi Coupleaux, Maurice Martenot, Joerg Mager, Valdemar Poulsen, Julian Carrillo, Percy Grainger, Leon Scott deMartinville, Johann Maelzel, Abbe Delaborde, Athanasius Kircher, Gaspare P. Schoto, Sir Francis Bacon, Don Nicola Vincentino, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, King Fang Ho Tcheng-Tin, etc.

Group Members Joe Wright & Xodus.

Instruments Skylab.

Albums Station Drift.

Press Reviews " ...some of the best real eye opening electronic [music]!" - Wesley Molstad, Independent Film Director / "Station Drift sets up a dark, hellish atmosphere and keeps us there for just long enough, instead of trapping us there for so long it becomes repetitive and boring." - X, Gods Of Music

Additional Info All input and comments are greatly appreciated.

Location Asheville, NC - USA

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