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  • Genre: Indie / Psychedelic / Shoegaze

    Location detroit space rock city, Michigan, Un

    Profile Views: 112830

    Last Login: 5/18/2012

    Member Since 10/20/2005

    Website MINDEXPANSIONRECORDS.COM

    Record Label MIND EXPANSION, ROCKET GIRL

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    THE KING OF SPACE ROCK RETURNS WITH THE NEW ALBUM TITLED "ELECTRIC SOUND OF SUMMER" SCHEDULED FOR RELEASE THE FIRST DAY OF SUMMER 2011. ALBUM FEATURES SPECIAL GUESTS: DEAN WAREHAM, BRITTA PHILLIPS, MARK REFOY, RICHARD FORMBY, WILLIE B. CARRUTHERS, JERRY HOPE, STEPHEN LAWRIE, SARAH PEACOCK AND MANY MORE. ALBUM ARTWORK BY ANTHONY AUSGANG! Detroit-based experimental space rock group F�xa focus on a lo-fi, electronics-heavy blend of droning, treated guitars, vintage synths (most often the Hammond B-3), and sparse percussion in the vein of Loop, Spacemen 3/Spiritualized, and Amp. First Comprised of Randall Nieman and Ryan Anderson, the group formed in 1995 after Nieman left Dearborn- based space-rock group Windy & Carl to pursue other projects. He hooked up with Anderson, who'd recently severed his ties with another local group, Asha Vida, and a common interest in arcane instruments and electronics led the pair to each form a label Nieman with Mind Expansion and Anderson with Astro Lanes to put out collaborative material. What followed was a veritable flood of releases, not only on Mind Expansion and Astro Lanes, but labels such as Burnt Hair, Alley Sweeper, Che, Ochre, Earworm, Static Caravan and Darla. most of them meticulously conceived with an eye toward collectibility (hand-cut and numbered sleeves, colored vinyl, strategic split recordings, etc.). The result was Fuxa's quick ascension to cult status, buoyed by split recordings with artists such as Orange Cake Mix, Flowchart, Bright, and Stereolab. The group were also featured on Virgin U.K.'s mammoth post-rock companion Monsters, Robots, and Bugmen in 1996 and conducted a brief U.S. tour as Stereolab's support that same year. The group released several full-lengths (including Three Field Rotation, which collects their first three singles and adds two new tracks). In 1998 Ryan Anderson left the band and Randall took over Fuxa as a solo project. He has since released 4 more highly acclaimed albums (Inflight Audio, Fuxa2000, Supercharged and The Modified Mechanics Of This Device), as well as a string of ltd edition hand crafted 7" singles. Most recently with Martin Rev, The Telescopes and Landing.

  • Members

    RANDALL NIEMAN, TOM MEADE

  • Influences

    NEU!, SUIDICE, LA DUSSELDORF, MICHAEL ROTHER, FAUST, SPACEMEN 3, THE ANIMALS, BRIAN ENO, BRIAN WILSON, CAN, CLUSTER, ANTHONY AUSGANG!

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