Artist description Exploding onto the Northwest Industrial/Electronica Scene, Static Engine is poised to take the world by storm, one kicking, screaming listener at a time, if necessary...

Music Style industrial/electronic/synthpop

Musical Influences Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Chemlab, David Bowie, Cybertec, Front-242, Information Society, Stabbing Westward, The Psycho Babes, and many many more.

Similar Artists Depeche Mode, early NIN, Tori Amos gone electronica.

Artist History Founded in 1993, in the grim underbelly of Troy, NY. Recorded initial album over a three year period in Boston, MA. Moved to the Seattle area in 1999. Current album, "Submolecular", is now available on the ADSR Musicwerks label, or directly from the artist at http://www.staticengine.com

Group Members Static Engine is: Paul J. Furio - programming, keyboards, vocals. Live, Static Engine also includes Darren Miller on percussion and Nicole Edmonds on keys.

Instruments Virtual Analog Synthesizers, Software Based Sequencer, Photonically Charged Vocoder, Time/SpaceRift Drum Machine, Enhanced Flux Capacitor Based Sample Module, and Reverse Engineered Alien Technology.

Albums Submolecular, Entropy City, Encrypt/Decrypt Remix CD

Press Reviews From Grinding Into Emptiness: Entropy City, which is offered through MP3.com as a DAM CD, is a brilliant debut by the trio Static Engine. It's hard to shove Static Engine in to a particular genre, because their style shifts throughout the album, and even throughout a single song. They fall somewhere in between EBM and synthpop, following most similarly along with bands like Mesh. The first track, "A Stainless Steel Sky," morphs from melodic synthpop to harsh, aggressive EBM in a split second. Though it may seem like quite a change of pace for the middle of a song, the song flows well from one style to another. "Encrypt/Decrypt," which has been released as a single, begins with quiet, vocoded vocals, but explodes into a poppy chorus. You can tell that Static Engine is a fan of samples, as they appear throughout "Entropy City," enhancing the mood of a song. In Entropy City, Static Engine puts an aggressive spin on synthpop. You can take a listen to their music at www.mp3.com/staticengine or visit their website www.staticengine.com. Their DAM CD is available for a low price, and is more than worth it. Check them out!

Location Kirkland, WA - USA

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