Isotope 217

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Kryptonite Smokes the Red Line 03:26 Tools
Beneath The Undertow 05:51 Tools
Phonometrics 05:19 Tools
La Jeteé 00:00 Tools
Audio Boxing 02:44 Tools
Prince Namor 07:24 Tools
Rest For The Wicked 02:14 Tools
Audio Champion 03:56 Tools
LUH 09:38 Tools
Solaris 06:09 Tools
New Beyond 06:11 Tools
Looking After Life On Mars 08:02 Tools
Real Mc'S 07:16 Tools
Harm-O-Lodge 04:43 Tools
Meta Bass 05:48 Tools
Space Krikts 01:20 Tools
Kidtronix 01:50 Tools
Moot Ang 06:14 Tools
Moonlex 04:36 Tools
La Jetee' 06:15 Tools
Sint_D 05:04 Tools
Input 04:25 Tools
<< 01:18 Tools
la jetee 06:15 Tools
>> 02:37 Tools
la jetée 00:00 Tools
| | 00:00 Tools
prince narmor 00:00 Tools
Hodah 12:51 Tools
II 02:54 Tools
La Jete 06:15 Tools
User Password: Lebar 09:59 Tools
[||] 02:56 Tools
[<<] 01:18 Tools
[>>] 02:37 Tools
(PAUSE) 02:56 Tools
(REWIND) 01:18 Tools
(Fast Forward) 02:37 Tools
(STOP) 04:10 Tools
Ode To Philophony 00:00 Tools
Expedition Rhombus 00:00 Tools
|| (Pause) 02:56 Tools
-- 00:00 Tools
The Phonenumber 05:29 Tools
<< (Rewind) 01:18 Tools
>> (Fast Forward) 02:37 Tools
There Are No More Spaceman As We Know It (Straight Mix) 06:21 Tools
[Untitled Track] 00:00 Tools
Rewind 01:20 Tools
Pause 06:16 Tools
- - 00:00 Tools
Hodah (Commander Mindfuck Mix) 12:51 Tools
II(Pause) 02:56 Tools
Harm 02:56 Tools
User Password: Lebar (Designer mix) 09:59 Tools
Fast Forward 02:37 Tools
<<(Rewind) 01:18 Tools
Isotope 217° - 05 Looking Afte 01:18 Tools
>>(Fast Forward) 00:00 Tools
La Jete\202 06:15 Tools
◀◀ 01:18 Tools
Ode to Philosophy 06:15 Tools
▶▶ 02:37 Tools
Untitled 217 06:15 Tools
Isotope 217 - The Unstable Mol 06:15 Tools
10 - REWIND 01:18 Tools
|| 02:56 Tools
La Jeteé 06:15 Tools
The Unstable Molecule 02:56 Tools
La Jeteé 02:37 Tools
There Are No More Spacemen As We Know It (Straight Mix) 06:21 Tools
05-prince namor 06:15 Tools
Looking For Life After Mars 08:04 Tools
Stop 04:10 Tools
La Jeteй 04:10 Tools
[ ] (Stop) 04:10 Tools
11 - FAST FORWARD 02:56 Tools
Untitled 04:10 Tools
(Pause Button) 02:56 Tools
05 - Prince Namor 02:56 Tools
05 kidtronix 02:56 Tools
II (PAUSE) 02:56 Tools
Forward 02:37 Tools
02 Space Krikts 02:37 Tools
04 Moonlex 02:37 Tools
Improvisation 02:37 Tools
(forward) 02:37 Tools
Improv 02:37 Tools
Beneath the Undertow [1997] 00:30 Tools
isotope 217 - New Beyond 02:37 Tools
07 Moot Ang 02:37 Tools
La Jetйe 02:37 Tools
03 - La Jeteé 02:37 Tools
06 - PAUSE 02:54 Tools
03-La Jeteé 02:37 Tools
Beneath The Valley Of Undertow 02:37 Tools
[II] 02:37 Tools
-- (rewind button) 02:37 Tools
Luh [Live] 00:30 Tools
03-La Jeteé 00:30 Tools
[pause] 02:54 Tools
lebar 09:59 Tools
Kyptonite Smokes the Red Line (Live 1999) 09:59 Tools
(Rewind Button) 09:59 Tools
01 Kryptonite Smokes the Red Line 09:59 Tools
02 beneath the undertow 09:59 Tools
-- (fast-forward button) 09:59 Tools
isotope 217 - 02 - space krikts 09:59 Tools
isotope 217 - 04 - moonlex 09:59 Tools
Solaris (Live 1999) 09:59 Tools
isotope 217 - Rest For The Wicked 09:59 Tools
08 SINT_D 02:54 Tools
User Password - Lebar 09:59 Tools
La Jettee' 09:59 Tools
09 Input 09:59 Tools
04 Phonometrics 09:59 Tools
Untitled 3 09:59 Tools
Untitled 1 02:19 Tools
(Fast-Forward Button) 02:19 Tools
isotope 217 - 03 - meta bass 02:19 Tools
isotope 217 - 01 - harm-o-lodge 02:19 Tools
Beneath the Undertow [Jazz-Rock & Fusion] 11:06 Tools
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Isotope 217° were a Chicago based band composed mainly of members from Tortoise and the Chicago Underground Orchestra that was formed in 1997. The New York Times described the band as "..adept to varying degrees at rock and funk and jazz and electronics, turn those introspective moments into jams that are messier and warmer than Tortoise's." The music of Isotope 217 is as complex and varied as the influences of its members: John Herndon (drums, percussion) and Dan Bitney (drums, percussion) from Tortoise, Jeff Parker (guitar) from, among others, Tortoise, New Horizons Ensemble and Chicago Underground Orchestra, Rob Mazurek (Cornet) from Chicago Underground Orchestra, Sara P. Smith (Trombone) from Chicago Underground Orchestra, and Matt Lux (Uptighty, Tranquility Bass). In the mid 1990s, these Chicago musicians got together for a weekly engagement at the Rainbo Club, a neighborhood tavern just south of Wicker Park. Their experiments were improvisational, exploring the electro-acoustic realm much in the fashion of Miles Davis' electric music, but with a bit of a Jamaican dub sensibility and a focus on collective group movement, as opposed to climactic individual improvisations with "funky" accompaniment. The weekly engagement gradually transformed into a weekly workshop - an open rehearsal for the general public as they started to compose and rehearse sketches for the group, crafting a unique method of group improvisation and collective musical arrangement. They had become a band, and named themselves Isotope, a reference from a scene in the Sun Ra cult sci-fi film "Space Is The Place". After discovering that a British lite-jazz group from the 70s had adopted the same sobriquet, they settled on Isotope 217, a reference from yet another sci-fi classic, "Forbidden Planet". Isotope 217 went on to release three albums for the Thrill Jockey label, all to critical acclaim, and modest commercial success: "The Unstable Molecule" (1997), "Utonian_Automatic" (1999) and "Who Stole The I Walkman" (2000), all placing at the top of year-end critics' lists. They released an EP on Aesthetics Records, a collage of manipulated live stereo recordings from their sessions at the Rainbo Club, mixed by their good friends Mike Kandel (aka Tranquillity Bass, aka Commander Mindfuck) and Casey Rice (aka Designer). Isotope 217 has headlined some of the world's leading new music festivals, including the Verona Festival in Italy and the Moers Music Festival in Germany. They participated in an extremely unlikely but wildly successful collaboration with the Hip-Hop group Cannibal Ox and a host of other mc's from the Def Jux camp, at the Lincoln Center's Symphony Space in 2001. Isotope 217 occasionally still performs, mostly in Chicago, US. But whether or not a new album will surface is unknown at present moment. Links: www.thrilljockey.com/artists/index.html?id=10024 www.myspace.com/isotope2172 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.