Hangedup

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Kinetic Work 06:22 Tools
Klang Klang 00:00 Tools
Sink 00:00 Tools
A Different Kind Of Function 00:00 Tools
Alarm 00:00 Tools
Losing Your Charm 00:00 Tools
Kick-Back-Hub 00:00 Tools
(Re)View From The Ground 00:00 Tools
View From The Ground 00:00 Tools
No More Bad Future 00:00 Tools
Automatic Spark Control 00:00 Tools
Derailleur 00:00 Tools
Eksplozije 00:00 Tools
Moment For The Motion Machine 00:00 Tools
How We Keep Time 00:00 Tools
Motorcycle Muffler 00:00 Tools
Broken Reel 00:00 Tools
Junk The Clatter 00:00 Tools
Go Let's Go 00:00 Tools
Powered By Steam 00:00 Tools
Fuck This Place 00:00 Tools
Winternational 00:00 Tools
New Blue Monday 00:00 Tools
Propane Tank 02:30 Tools
Tapping 00:00 Tools
Bring Yr Scuba Gear 00:00 Tools
Wilt 00:00 Tools
Czech Disco PtII 00:00 Tools
Go Let’s Go 00:00 Tools
(Re)View From The Ground (Remix) 00:00 Tools
(Re)view from the Ground [Remix] 00:00 Tools
Flying Fast N Furious 00:00 Tools
Transit Of Venus 00:00 Tools
Hangedup finally excerpt 00:00 Tools
Principles 00:00 Tools
Bright Arc Of Light 00:00 Tools
Gentil The Unlucky Astronomer 00:00 Tools
Panorama From Maxwell Montes 00:00 Tools
Klang 00:00 Tools
new (15.04.2004 - instants chavires) 00:00 Tools
kinetic work (15.04.2004 - instants chavires) 00:00 Tools
scoop (15.04.2004 - instants chavires) 00:00 Tools
struggle (15.04.2004 - instants chavires) 00:00 Tools
New 00:00 Tools
intro 00:00 Tools
Hangedup - New Blue Monday 00:00 Tools
Piste 2 00:00 Tools
Piste 6 00:00 Tools
(intro) (15.04.2004 - instants chavires) 00:00 Tools
moment for the motion picture 00:00 Tools
Klang / Klang 00:00 Tools
Dugtown 00:00 Tools
Piste 1 00:00 Tools
Movement For The Motion Machine 00:00 Tools
(Re)view From the Ground - Hangedup 00:00 Tools
Piste 3 00:00 Tools
Piste 8 00:00 Tools
Piste 5 00:00 Tools
Struggle 00:00 Tools
02 - Alarm 00:00 Tools
Czech Disco, Pt. II 00:00 Tools
dugtown (15.04.2004 - instants chavires) 00:00 Tools
no more bad future (15.04.2004 - instants chavires) 00:00 Tools
Piste 9 00:00 Tools
Bring Yr Scuba Jill 00:00 Tools
(encore) (15.04.2004 - instants chavires) 00:00 Tools
09. broken reel 00:00 Tools
Piste 7 00:00 Tools
Czech Disco Part II 00:00 Tools
Piste 10 00:00 Tools
How We Keep Tome 00:00 Tools
Scoop 00:00 Tools
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Hangedup is the Montreal-based duo of Gen Heistek (viola) and Eric Craven (drums). The two met in 1995 while playing in Sackville and formed Hangedup in 1999. They released their eponymous debut in May 2001. Kicker in Tow followed in October 2002 and Clatter for Control in April 2005. Hangedup plays battle hymns for shut-ins, tightrope walkers, and urban bicyclists. Hangedup channels dead Roma musicians from Slavic republics Hangedup plays East European folk tunes backwards, skipping every 3rd note. Hangedup writes road songs for model train enthusiasts. Hangedup composes soundtracks for slow-motion automobile accidents. They also use leaded gasoline every chance they get. Hangedup are unique operators of their chosen instruments, and have mastered a signature sound that is well ahead, and far behind, the times. Heistek’s vertigo-inducing viola runs through hallucinating loopers and warranty-voided amplifiers. Craven’s inimitable sound fuses auto shop discards with home-wiring experiments and fifteen-year-old drum skins. Sometimes soaring, occasionally distressing, Hangedup are the sound of tomorrow, only tomorrow was this morning, just before you left the house. And you left the stove on. Hangedup has toured extensively in Europe and North America, including performances at All Tomorrow's Parties in England, the Printemps de Bourges in France, the Domino festival in Belgium. At the Rhaaa Lovely and K-RAA-K festivals, also in Belgium, they headlined and were widely declared the highlight of these events. The K-RAA-K show led to friendship and collaboration with Tony Conrad, who also played that night. Conrad joined Hangedup for several North American shows and a series of recording sessions in 2004. Since moving to Montreal in 1987, Gen Heistek has been a member of many bands, including Pest 5000, Sackville, Set Fire To Flames and The Mile-End Ladies' String Auxiliary. She has played with Sam Shalabi, Elizabeth Anka Vajagic and many others. She wrote for CBC Radio’s Brave New Waves and now co-owns Local 23, a fripperie and purveyor of locally made stuff. Eric Craven moved to Montreal in 1993, having previously played in various punk bands in his native Victoria. He has been a member of Shortwave, Sackville and Blackout, and has thrown down his unparalleled rhythm thing, on record and in concert, with Mitchell Akiyama, Polmo Polpo, Elizabeth Anka Vajagic, Silver Mt. Zion and Hrsta, among many others. He composes extensively for dance in Montreal, and is currently tending to an impressive bicycle graveyard in his backyard. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.