CANADA'S ELECTRIC TIGER MACHINE

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At Not Out

Album: Language is for Everybody

Released: Aug 22, 2006

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At Not Out
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The New Microcosmic Regionalis
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Dictionary Missionary
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Interlocution
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Moving
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General Info

Genre: Electro / New Wave / Post punk
Location Bowling Green, OH (Now: London/Cleveland/Ann A, Un
Profile Views: 26044
Last Login: 10/31/2012
Member Since 6/14/2004
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vY2FuYWRhc2VsZWN0cmljdGlnZXJtYWNoaW5lLmJhbmRjYW1wLmNvbS8=
Record Label Meta-Sounds: Music & Nonmusic
Type of Label Indie
Bio
Artsy-new-wave. As is traditional with bands comprised entirely of artists, you wouldn't have walked away from a Canada's Electric Tiger Machine show commenting on how technically skilled its members are. However, you would have been sweat-drenched from the involuntary convulsions the quartet delivered to your body. Canada's Electric Tiger Machine met at Bowling Green State University where, Haehn, Buckholz, and Ranville were art students and Setzer was a Visiting Instructor. Formed in November 2003, their live shows were immediately heralded for their high-energy delivery and bizarre stage happenings. Their performances had been known to include projections, wigs, costumes, workout routines, large inflated garbage-bag structures, bad improvisational rapping, short-shorts and on-stage soy-dog eating. Their entire debut release, ..Translucent Transparent [Integrated].., was written inside of a windmill. Ranville, Haehn, and Buckholz weave a catchy new-wave backdrop for Setzer's quirky scientist-like delivery. His froggy lyrical investigation steered clear of the traditional subject matter and exposed his research as a nationally known conceptual artist. With excessive amounts of sweat, error and lo-fi instruments that should have been thrown away, Canada's Electric Tiger Machine managed to inject a human-element into a genre renowned for cool plastic remove, and merged the best aspects of electro and indie. While C.E.T.M. disbanded in late 2005, the dance-punk ensemble recorded ..Language is for Everybody.. in 2006 to document the remainder of their live catalog and make the songs available to the public. Their first release since 2004's ..Translucent Transparent [Integrated].., the new EP hit harder, yet delivered the same quirky electronic flavor that was unmistakably electric tiger territory. A dense web of semiotic theory, its spastic lyrical convulsions imbued the release with an intellectual ironic cool you would expect of a children's educational album; but this one felt like it was designed for grad students. These four tracks undoubtedly highlight this now defunct art school electro outfit in their prime.
Members
Tom Buckholz: Drums Benjamin Haehn: Bass Andrew Ranville: Synth Gary Setzer: Vocals
Influences
Sounds Like
Men without Hats, Joy Division, V.C.R., Supersystem, Does It Offend You Yeah?, ADULT., Gang of Four, SPARKS, B-52's, The Faint, SERVICES