Landscape Body Machine is an electronic Vancouver band with a hybrid sound of equal parts ambient, dance, industrial & techno. Politically and socially minded work, LBM is noted for energetic and passionate live performances, which are an exception rather than the norm for most electronic-based artists, where most of the action usually takes place hidden away from sight in front of banks of computers and synthesizers.
Influenced by many forms of electronic music such as the likes of Depeche Mode, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, Orbital, acid house, drum n bass and ambient. As a sound designer, composer and arranger LBM’s Huxtable has produced film soundtracks for Vancouver film maker Flick Harrison's Armed Rabble films including "Freeworld" and "Map of a Restless Northwest" for the CBC. His music has been featured in many video games including Mad Genius' "Gunmetal" and Steven Spielberg's' "Artificial Intelligence".
Landscape Body Machine has played the West Coast constantly over the past 15 years sharing the stage with such acts as KMFDM, Moev, Covenant, Snog, Funker Vogt, And One, Urceus Exit, SVD and more. LBM has collaborated with a wide array of artists and personalities, from bands like Cargohold and Fidgital to DR. David Suzuki and Noam Chomsky.
Its founder and sole member Craig Joseph Huxtable has garnered an industry reputation as an amazing live and session keyboardist, recording and touring as a member of Frontline Assembly, Noise Unit and Stiff Valentine.
Released November 11th on Canadian indie electronic label Interdimensional Industries, Manifest Destiny is Landscape Body Machine’s long awaited return to the electronic scene with a full length album that seamlessly blends ambient and progressive dance with an electro-industrial edge. Recorded and arranged as a 10 piece concept album with 3 additional unreleased live performances, the sound that “Manifest Destiny” creates is a world in itself. The record is complemented by the mastering skills of Karl Mohr (Multibeat) and the powerful visual art of Simon Paul (Subconscious, Theatre Ov Idiots)
