Artist description RDK (Radio Disease Killer) is an experimental instrumental project dealing in accidental music, field recordings, non-instruments and non-human animal performers co-existing with traditional rock instruments and effects-treated synthetic sounds and thrift-store loops.

Music Style Electronic, Experimental, Music Concrete

Musical Influences Stomu Yamashta, Klaus Schultz, Eno, the usual pornography...

Similar Artists Lorelei, Tangerine Dream, Stomu Yamashta

Artist History RDK grew out of a quickly put together performance at Signal 66 in Washington DC in December of 2000. The event featured a documentary film about the band LORELEI and their eventfull/uneventfull small-time tour of England in 1993. The two members of the band were performing electronic music sets before the viewing. Feeling guilty, organizers asked the bands former drummer Davis White to participate as well. His resulting work "RDK" caused people to both scowl at the irreverence (hermit crabs playing the theremin, a live guinea pig onstage chirping etc.) and laugh at the truthfulness (did this really sound ALL THAT MUCH different from many a human 'artists' attempt at the same thing?) While it could be argued that his menagerie did possess more musical talent than Mr. White the later inventive sets by his former bandmates disproved his theory, at least for that night. Skip ahead one year. Encouraged by the positive reaction and good memories of the event Davis goes back to the tapes and decides to "polish" them up and rework them. You see, there was a whole other concept behing the music. There are three parts: Malcolm, Chewie, and Yoko which loosly coresponds to the three members of Lorelei. RDK uses these divergent personalities as a starting point, incorporating their musical quirks and crutches into the pieces.

Group Members Davis White sometimes with David Rickert

Instruments moog rogue, animals, pressure cooker, thrift store loops, bass, guitar, percussion

Location Springfield, VA - USA

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