Null Device | |
|---|---|
| Genres | Electronic, Synthpop |
| Years active | 1995–present |
| Labels | Nilaihah Records (2002-2010) Distortion Productions (2016-) |
| Website | http://www.nulldevice.com |
| Members | Eric Oehler (Vocals / Violin / Synthesizers / Misc Percussion) Eric Goedken (Lyrics / Production) Jill Sheridan (Keyboards / Vocals Kendra Kreutz (Cello/Vocals) |
| Past members | Elizabeth Scheef (Dumbek / Frame drum) Dan Clark (Guitar) Charles "Chuck4" McKenzie (Bass) Tom Lawrence (Synthesizers) William Annis (Synthesizers) |
Null Device is an electronic pop band from Wisconsin, USA.
Band history
Null Device is an electronic band formed in 1995 by Eric Oehler, William Annis, and Tom Lawrence at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After the amicable departures of Annis and Lawrence, Dr. Eric Goedken joined as a full-time lyricist and producer. Named after /dev/null, the group was originally an informal project for members of the university's Undergraduate Projects Lab interested in the techno music of the burgeoning rave scene. Through connections to Stromkern's Ned Kirby and a variety of DJ's from local clubs, the project slowly became more focused on vocal-oriented industrial dance music, driven by Lawrence's experimental audio software. It was at this point that Goedken joined the band full-time and Null Device became a more melodic electronic pop act in the mold of Depeche Mode and New Order. After some local and underground success, they were signed to Nilaihah Records in 2002.
While their label debut and early works are straightforward synthpop, their more recent works have seen a broadening of influences, taking cues from breakbeat, trip hop, house music and drum and bass and incorporating a wide range of ethnic influences and instruments. Subsequent releases have seen the use of dumbek, dholak, duduk, cumbus, sitar, dilruba[1] and violin, as well as guest vocals by Arabic and Carnatic classical singers. Null Device has also contributed to various projects with a number of other industrial, synthpop and electronic artists, including Armageddon Dildos, B! Machine, Blind Faith and Envy, Caustic, The Dark Clan, Distorted Reality, The Gothsicles, Epsilon Minus, Hungry Lucy, Stochastic Theory and Stromkern.
Discography
Albums
- While You Were Otherwise Engaged (Distortion Productions, 2016)
- Perihelion (NDMI/Nilaihah Records, 2013)
- Suspending Belief (Nilaihah Records, 2010)[2]
- Excursions (Nilaihah Records, 2007)[3]
- A Million Different Moments (Nilaihah Records, 2004)
- Sublimation (Nilaihah Records, 2002)
- The Year in Pixels (1999)
EPs and Singles
- Wardrobe (2015)
- Aphelion (2014)
- Misadventures in Dub (2011)
- Recursions (2009)
- The London EP (Nilaihah Records, 2005)
- Footfalls EP (2003)
- Subliminal (self-released demo, 2001)
- Submariner/Love Stain (self-released, 2000) split EP with Polymorphous Perverse
- Crimson (self-released, 2000)
References
- ^ Mills, Emily (May 15, 2009). "Madison electronic artists create a new kind of beat". The Isthmus. Jeff Haubt. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^ Albertoni, Rich (May 13, 2010). "Null Device: "Suspending Belief"". The Isthmus. Jeff Haupt. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- ^ Albertoni, Rich (August 24, 2007). "Null Device - Excursions". The Isthmus. Retrieved 30 March 2015.