Gridlock
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[edit] Details
Name: Gridlock
Location: San Francisco, California, USA
Years Active: 1994 - 2005
Label: Off Beat, Pendragon Records, Unit, Hymen Records, Component Records, Klangkrieg, Piehead Records
Current Members: Mike Cadoo & Mike Wells
[edit] History
Gridlock is a San Francisco based experimental electronic band originally created by Mike Wells in 1994. A year later, Mike Cadoo joined up, and the duo released their first two demos, Sickness and Frozen, and soon signed to Pendragon Records in 1997.
Their style was originally akin to the sound of Skinny Puppy with less vocals and an ambient aspect not normally found in industrial music. Eventually, they took on more and more ambient and electronic sounds and slowly removed their industrial edge and any trace of vocals. Today, they could better be compared to Autechre due to their newer IDM sound and to Panacea for their Drum & Bass experimentation.
On March 24, 2005, the band announced its dissolution on its website, but promised to continue making music under Wells' and Cadoo's respective side projects.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Full Length Albums and EPs
- Sickness (1995)
- Frozen (1996)
- The Synthetic Form Pendragon (1997)
- Further Pendragon (1999)
- 5.25 Pendragon (2000)
- Trace Unit (2001)
- Formless Hymen (2003)
[edit] Singles
- Gridlock / O2 split 7" Unit
- Engram 12" Hymen
- Gridlock / Steel split 12" Klangkrieg
- Gridlock / Panacea split 12" Component
- Under 3" CD Piehead
[edit] Special Releases
- live.traces self-released
- Trace 12" Zod
- Formless 2x12" Hymen
[edit] Compilations
- The Tyranny Off the Beat Vol. 4 CD (Off Beat 1997)
- Exoskeleton CD (Possessive Blindfold 1997)
- Binary Application Extension 05 CD (Culture Shock 1998)
- The Tyranny Off the Beat Vol. 5 CD (Off Beat 1998)
- Classix CD (Off Beat 1999)
- The Flatline Compilation 2 CD (Flatline 2000)
[edit] Remixes
- Cherised Agony on Evolution by Android Lust
- Payoff on Truthead by Aghast View
- Unforgiven on Unburied by Allied Vision
- As Death Approaches on Inception of Eradication by Holocaust Theory
- My Saviour on Redemption EP by Flesh Field
