// chris hoke - guitar strings + vocal chords // joie hoke - electronic keys and buttons + vocal chords // sean moore - muscles + sticks + drums // justin gray - bass strings + low end
Influences
Eno, Bowie, Hendrix, King Crimson, Coltrane, Oval, Yes circa Fragile, Flaming Lips, Kraftwerk, Mercury Rev, Can, King Tubby, Marvin Gaye, The Partridge Family, Leonard Nimoy, Burl Ives' Electric Polka Symphonia, Ted Nugent's loin cloth in a great white shark's stomach, and assorted individual influences (it's a collective, dontcha know).
EARLY:
Justin, Chris, Sean-1, and Sean-2 (singer) formed Hosaka Science in 1995, dubiously grafting prog-rock to Leonard Cohen-type declamations of angst-stained societal alienation. Imperceptible impact resulted, unless the nicotine burns the band etched into the floors of various Atlanta clubs are analyzed (like cave paintings). When Sean-2 (singer) bailed, the desire to continue paying practice room rent prevailed. After auditioning one misguided Peter Cetera-fixated wannabe too many, Chris was conscripted to sing (his inability to say no is legendary). Joie joined on synths and samples, and the resulting foursome became 3d5spd; the name may signify the stars spinning around a cartoon villain's head as his fingers are shredded by whirling bike spokes, then again, it may not.
MID:
Four records (Faster Gravity - 1996 // Tracking the Hydroplane - 1999 // Radial Quartet EP - 2000 // Fever in the Ice Age - 2002): press, radio, great shows, good shows, bad shows, pride, anger, accomplishment, then rest....
LATE:
(insert sound of busy signal slowly droning from a phone off the hook.)
