Bowery Electric

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Beat 05:39 Tools
Fear of Flying 00:00 Tools
Floating World 00:00 Tools
Empty Words 00:00 Tools
Lushlife 00:00 Tools
Without Stopping 00:00 Tools
Under The Sun 00:00 Tools
Black Light 00:00 Tools
Looped 00:00 Tools
Inside Out 00:00 Tools
Freedom Fighter 00:00 Tools
Soul City 00:00 Tools
Shook Ones 00:00 Tools
Next To Nothing 00:00 Tools
Coming Down 00:00 Tools
Psalms of Survival 00:00 Tools
Long Way Down 00:00 Tools
Sounds In Motion 00:00 Tools
Postscript 00:00 Tools
Deep Blue 00:00 Tools
Saved 00:00 Tools
Over and Over 00:00 Tools
After Landing 00:00 Tools
Passages 00:00 Tools
Slow Thrills 00:00 Tools
Another Road 00:00 Tools
Deep Sky Objects 00:00 Tools
Out of Phase 00:00 Tools
Drift Away 00:00 Tools
Low Density 00:00 Tools
Things'll Never Be the Same 00:00 Tools
Fear Of Flying (Chasm Mix) 00:00 Tools
Black Light (Osymyso Mix) 00:00 Tools
Elementary Particles (Main Mix) 00:00 Tools
Without Stopping (Witchman Mix) 00:00 Tools
Coming Down (Immersion Mix) 00:00 Tools
Empty Words (Twisted Science Mix) 00:00 Tools
Head on Fire 00:00 Tools
Fear of Flying (Third Eye Foundation Mix) 00:00 Tools
Drop 00:00 Tools
Let Me Down 00:00 Tools
Black Light (Dunderhead Mix) 00:00 Tools
Only Sometimes 00:00 Tools
2-09 - Bowery Electric - Lushlife 00:00 Tools
Freedom Fighter (Vocal remix) 00:00 Tools
Electro Sleep 00:00 Tools
Blow Up 00:00 Tools
Freedom Fighter (instrumental mix) 00:00 Tools
Long Way Dow 00:00 Tools
Fear Of Flying (The Third Eye Foundation Mix) 00:00 Tools
Saved (Readwriteerror mix) 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_01 - Beat 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_02 - Empty Words 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric 1995 (self-titled) 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_05 - Fear Of Flying 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_03 - Without Stopping 00:00 Tools
Beat Full Album 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_07 - Black Light 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_06 - Looped 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_04 - Under The Sun 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_09 - Coming Down 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_08 - Inside Out 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_10 - Postscript 00:00 Tools
02 - Lushlife 00:00 Tools
Next to Nothing@@@ 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_11 - Low Density 00:00 Tools
Track 1 00:00 Tools
07 - Saved 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric (1995) 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Fear of Flying 00:00 Tools
The Bowery Electric 00:00 Tools
Post Script 00:00 Tools
bowery electric - lushlife 00:00 Tools
Beat_06 - Looped 00:00 Tools
elementary particles 00:00 Tools
03 Shook Ones 00:00 Tools
Low Density (unlisted) 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Shook Ones 00:00 Tools
Untitled 00:00 Tools
Fear Of Flying (Third Eye Foun 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_02 - Empt 00:00 Tools
02 Lushlife 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_03 - With 00:00 Tools
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1 - Floating World 00:00 Tools
01 - Beat 00:00 Tools
06 - Looped 00:00 Tools
Coming Out 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_04 - Unde 00:00 Tools
Empty Words (1997) 00:00 Tools
Things'll Never Be The Same - Bowery Electric 00:00 Tools
freedom_fighter 00:00 Tools
2 - Lushlife 00:00 Tools
04 Psalms Of Survival 00:00 Tools
Beat - Disjecta Mix 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_07 - Blac 00:00 Tools
08 Deep Blue 00:00 Tools
bowery electric - beat - 01 - beat 00:00 Tools
Shock Ones 00:00 Tools
01 Beat 00:00 Tools
Freedom Fighter [Vocal Remix] 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_05 - Fear 00:00 Tools
06 Freedom Fighter 00:00 Tools
Over and Over (Ideal OST) 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_09 - Comi 00:00 Tools
05 fear of flying 00:00 Tools
Without Stopping - Witchman Mix (Hell Or High Water Dub) 00:00 Tools
10 Passages 00:00 Tools
bowery electric - beat - 03 - without stopping 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Lushlife - 09 - After Landing 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Things'll Never Be The Same 00:00 Tools
07 black light 00:00 Tools
Fear Of Flying - Chasm Mix (Flux Density) 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_08 - Insi 00:00 Tools
10 postscript 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_06 - Loop 00:00 Tools
03 Without Stopping 00:00 Tools
beat - 04 - under the sun 00:00 Tools
Beat (1996) Full Album 00:00 Tools
floating_world 00:00 Tools
fear of flying (third eye foundation remix) 00:00 Tools
02 Empty Words 00:00 Tools
01 Sounds In Motion 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Beat - 02 - Empty Words 00:00 Tools
Psalms 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Coming Down 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Electro Sleep 00:00 Tools
Lushlife (...and down to more trip-hop playlist;) 00:00 Tools
06 looped 00:00 Tools
08 inside out 00:00 Tools
02 Next To Nothing 00:00 Tools
Black Night 00:00 Tools
04 Another Road 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Looped 00:00 Tools
Lushlife - 01 Floating World 00:00 Tools
Freedom Fighter [Instrumental Remix] 00:00 Tools
Freedom Fighters 00:00 Tools
Thingsll Never Be The Same - 00:00 Tools
09 coming down 00:00 Tools
Another Road Part 2 00:00 Tools
05. Fear of flying 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric_Beat_10 - Post 00:00 Tools
Another Road Part 1 00:00 Tools
03 Long Way Down 00:00 Tools
04 under the sun 00:00 Tools
06 Deep Sky Objects 00:00 Tools
Lushlife - 09 After Landing 00:00 Tools
Long Way Down [5ko] 00:00 Tools
05 Over And Over 00:00 Tools
07 Slow Thrills 00:00 Tools
Postscript [Beat : 1996] 00:00 Tools
Beat (Disjecta Mix) 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Beat - 04 - Under The Sun 00:00 Tools
After Landing [Trip-Hop] 00:00 Tools
shook_ones 00:00 Tools
Elementary Particles (Main) 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Black Light 00:00 Tools
soul_city 00:00 Tools
Sounds in Motion/Next to Nothing 00:00 Tools
bowery electric - beat - 11 - low density 00:00 Tools
bowery electric - floating world 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Long Way Down 00:00 Tools
Bowery Electric - Beat 00:00 Tools
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Vocalist/guitarist Lawrence Chandler, a former protege of minimalist composer LaMonte Young, and vocalist/bassist Martha Schwendener (now known under the name Echostar) formed Bowery Electric in late 1993 and played their first show together at Brownie's in New York City in January 1994. With drummer Michael Johngren completing the trio, Bowery Electric played shows across the East Coast and recorded a double seven inch single with Kramer that they released on their own Hi-Fidelity label. In the fall of 1994, very impressed by the debut single set, kranky got in touch with the band. The debut, self-titled album was recorded with Mike Deming at Studio .45 in Hartford, CT in January 1995. Bowery Electric was released on compact disc and vinyl in mid-1995. As The Wire described it, Bowery Electric "weave chilled downbeat dirges via hazy sheets of distorted guitar (that sound as though they were recorded underwater), stumbling sluggish percussion and benumbed male/female vocals... the album works as a sustained moodpiece...". Or, as Chris Wodskou put it in the Sept. 1995 issue of Exclaim!, "Bowery Electric shimmer in the way a 20 foot sheet of metal shimmers and resonates when vibrated. A sharp pop confection with the blunt force of a three-alarm headache." Simon Reynolds' seminal post-Rock article in the November 1995 issue of The Wire placed Bowery Electric in the forefront of "a distinctively American post-rock." The band returned to Studio .45 to work on the second full length release with engineer Rich Costley. With the acquisition of samplers, the band's song writing process (which had always started with the bass track and drum beats) expanded. The resulting album, Beat, featured a drummer on four out of ten tracks, with plenty of subtly sampled beats and bass tones anchoring the bottom end. Lawrence Chandler told Alternative Press that "technologically [Beat] is the beginning of us learning our way around a proper sampler and software which allows us to work with samples on the computer. We can sample ourselves, manipulate sounds, create our own beats and basically work with fewer restrictions." Beggar's Banquet licensed Beat for release in the U.K. and Europe and with drummer Wayne Magruder added to the group, Bowery Electric began tours of the U.K. and North America. Melody Maker reviewed a show in July 1997 and noted that "for two people to be able to create such a huge, rolling epic sound is surprising; what really hits hard is just how huge it can be, how the inarguable and pulverising beauty of BE's sound simply forces a slacked out crowd into its swell." Beggar's Banquet released Vertigo, a collection of remixes of Beat tracks by Main, Third Eye Foundation, Chasm, Witchman, Immersion and others. Beat was the last album Bowery Electric made for kranky, they went on to release an EP (Blow Up/Electro Sleep) and album (Lushlife) for Beggar's Banquet and ultimately broke up in 2000. Eventually, Lawrence formed a solo project called Metrotech, while Martha formed a project called Echostar. So far Martha released one album, Sola, as Echostar, but Lawrence only appeared with a remix on Calla's Custom. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.