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3kStatic
12+ albums
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Heavily influenced by the sound, fury and Dada-inspired artistic sensibilities and cut-up techniques of electronica pioneers such as Cabaret Voltaire, Tackhead and Meat Beat Manifesto, 3kStatic is an electronica collective founded in 1999. Recording for the dPulse Recordings, Cargo Records Germany and INgrooves labels, 3kStatic releases are distributed by ONE Digital, Universal Music Distribution Digital, Zebralution and Sony BMG Music Germany. Additional 2008 3kStatic releases have also been issued on the Nightshade Music, Televisionary and Sick Watona labels. Earlier in the evolution of digital music, 3kStatic logged more than 225,000 downloads on the former MP3.com, and were named 2003 Artist of the Year by the Mixdown, a weekly broadcast of Vanderbilt University radio station WRVU FM (Nashville, Tennessee). The group's recorded output has been featured on the past several seasons on the soundtrack of MTV's Real World and Road Rules, and has also being licensed for various television commercials and independent films. Notable licensees of the band's music include Pontiac, Hypnotiq Vodka, PHisoderm, The Cleveland Clinic, Edmunds.com, TheKnot.com, and many others. Their 2004 album Perversion: for Profit; uses audio sampled from the 1965 propaganda film Perversion for Profit, an anti-pornography diatribe hosted by George Putnam and also garnered favorable reviews especially in Germany, where the band's often aggressive political comment was seen as a throwback to the earl
