Artist: Kit Clayton
Genre(s):
Techno
Discography:
Lateral Forces (LP)
Year: 2000
Tracks: 3
Nek Sanalet
Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
The minimal-to-abstract, passably dubby techno of electronic DJ and producer Kit Clayton has appeared on a large turn of labels since 1996. Clayton runs several of his have labels, including Cytrax Records and Orthlorng Musorks, simply his music -- which has garnered praise from such magazines as The Wire and Muzik -- canful likewise be heard on Stefan Betke's Scape label, as considerably as Mille Plateaux, Organized Noise, Plug Research, Seventh City, Phthalo and more. Clayton studied at Conneticut's Wesleyan College, learnedness in the electronic music research lab, where he composed interactive pieces. He at present whole kit and boodle out of his basement studio in San Francisco, non only on music, merely on an sound recording software system that helps make systems to bring forth music with variable randomisation -- his "day job." He released the EPs Negative Powers and Unreliable Networks for Cytrax, and debuted on Thomas Brinkmann's Scape label with the praised Nek Purpalet EP in mid-1999. Before the end of the year, full-lengths followed on Drop Beat (Repeating and Nonsense) and Scape (Nek Sanalet). Despite his computing device work, Clayton's creations reach beyond "computing device medicine"; for him, computers ar just another substance of creation to be victimised along with acoustic, analog and digital methods. He has besides toured Germany, and created a envision to pair ocular fine art with electronic music called "the Mimic and the Model."
