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Climax Golden Twins
12+ albums
experimentalpsychedelicelectronicambientdrone
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Climax Golden Twins are an American experimental group. Formed in Seattle, Washington in 1993, Climax Golden Twins is a duo consisting of Robert Millis and Jeffery Taylor. Each of their albums concocts a surreal lo-fi collage of drones, electronic noise, voices, and field recordings. Occasional members and collaborators have included engineer Scott Colburn, percussionist Dave Abramson, A Frames architect Erin Sullivan, and drummer John Vallier. Their musical output spans a majority of modern media formats. Their debut was the double 7" Climax Golden Twins (Fire Breathing Turtle, 1994), but the first mature statements of their aesthetic were the cassettes Climax Golden Hiss (Union Pole, 1995) and Eyeless Fabrication (EF, 1995), their first full-length album. The 23 fragments of Imperial Household Orchestra (Scratch, 1996), recorded with eight guests, offer a good overview of their "concrete" techniques in assembling demented free-form jamming. 1997 saw the release of a four-part series of albums comprised of live recordings. At the turn of the century, the group concocted Dream Cut Short in the Mysterious Clouds (Anomalous, 2000), Rock Album (Fire Breathing Turtle, 2000), a set of 20 brief fragments that employ rock instruments and rhythms in a context similar to progressive rock (the closest references being Fred Frith and God Is My Co-Pilot); Session 9 (Milan, 2001), a haunting movie soundtrack that employs instruments in the style of the classical avant-garde as well as
