Artist description A priest, a janitor, a doctor, a robot and an escaped convict. Space wasn't ready for them. Are you?

Music Style wacky, kooky and zany

Musical Influences daniel johnston, negativland, EBN, charles schultz, winnie the pooh

Similar Artists negativland, EBN, daniel johnston, skinny puppy, panasonic

Artist History We met at an interplanetary pub, The Whore Shack, on Jupiter's moon Ganymede. "Upon meeting we new it was fate." -Father Jazz Jazz and Dr. Lymphostatic were sitting next to each other at the astrobar exchanging their war stories and drinking shots of Blue Moon plasma juice. Lymphostatic was running from authorities on Mercury. A disgruntled surgeon at a prestigious experimental brain surgery hospital, he found he enjoyed the beeping and clicking of the machinery more than the process of healing people. One night, he cleaned out his hospital of any machinery that could possibly be modified for the purpose of making disturbingly original beats and loops, stealing X-ray machines, defribrulators, EKGs... everything that beeps or clicks. As his final fuck you to the medical industry, he set fire to the hospital, killing all the patients and night staff. Father Jazz was never an upstanding member of the religious community on Pluto. He was on probation with the intergalatic church of SpaceGod for repeatedly playing Thriller on his church's organ and for murdering members of his congregation. When finally opened fire on his entire congregation, he fled to Jupiter where he laid low in the bad parts of the moon system. While they were talking, Rashmaster, who was hiding from the galaxy the janitor at the Whore Shack, overheard them and appreciated their passion for music and crime. Lymphostatic caught Rashmaster watching them out of the corner of his eye. He lit his drink on fire, wound up and threw it at Rashmaster. Rashmaster didn't flinch. Leaningly swankly on his broom, he caught the drink out of the air with one hand and drank it down. He then proceeded to belch out a perfect rendition (yet with a poignant personal touch) of Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. Jazz and Lymphostatic sat in awe. Rashmaster approached their table and introduced himself as a hermit who spends half his time sweeping the floors and composing in his head, and the other half at his studio spacepad recording on his homemade equipment. Over the course of the night, conversation turned to the legendary felon and blues singer, Phoenix Derivative. She was held in the Feruntun correctional facility on Uranus. The papers had been flooded with her story. Upon discovering certain talents she posessed, the Galaxy Government had tried to recruit her for their top secret program, Mission to Burma. When she found out she was taking part in a conspiracy to infect the universe with a virus which would incapcitate its victims ability to make music & to be introspective, she destroyed all the research, and all the known samples of the virus except one, which the government believes she's hidden. Rashmaster, Lymphostatic and Jazz decided their musical project would not be complete until they broke her out of jail and she joined them. Lymphostatic had been working on a prototype which he now realized could be completed with Derivative's help. A cyborg programmed to come up with the best possible loops and beats - beats so funky they could make a robot dance; loops so groovy, he'd dance forever. Because Jazz was a priest, he was able to get inside Feruntun Correctional. They proceeded with their plan to free Derivative. For these complete geniuses, it was like taking spacecandy from a spacebaby. Coplotron became self-aware on March 10, 1997. He immediately started breakdancing to songs in his head, and starting recording them. Among human muisic, he took a liking to childrens' music and Tom Waits. The band finally had all the members it needed. And so, Pizza.

Group Members DJ Rashmaster Dr. Lymphostatic Father Jazz Phoenix Derivative Coplotron

Instruments cheap keyboard, 4 track, Juno, the bass, some guitars

Albums No Mercy Pen Name, Talk to the Spaceship, Cat Kennel

Press Reviews "Phoenix Derivativ escapes from Feruntun Correctional Facility" - Mars Gazette spacedate 3844..4

Location Quincy, MA - USA

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