Forming their collaboration in 1972, Bruce Anderson and Dale Sophiea worked together in MX-80 Sound for the better part of three decades. The often overlooked future rock group made numerous albums for the Residents' Ralph label and engineered a singular music out of post-Frank Zappa/Captain Beefheart visions. The influence of Anderson's metallic guitar sound can be heard in Big Black and parts of Sonic Youth, while MX-80 Sound's angular rhythms crops up in the music of ...   [ read more ]

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RESTOCK. A lament for the Balkans, man's inhumanity to man has horrified/inspired BRUCE ANDERSON (former MX-80 SOUND mainman/one of America's best guitarists) to the point where not purging these demons would be a crime? Ambient noise, drizzly drone-collage, minimalist trance mantras recalling ENO, STEVE REICH, STARS Of The LID, etc.

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Bruce Anderson is best known as guitarist for post-punk legends MX-80 Sound and offshoot O-Type. In the '70s and through to the '90s, Anderson and cohorts coined and defined the "new edge" sound. Over a series of arresting albums and singles, they built a discography that ranks the obscure group alongside Chrome in the stakes for most overlooked and influential American underground act. Anderson is joined by fellow MX-80 Sound alumni Dave Mahoney, as well as Dale Sophiea, {$Ji...   [ read more ]

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