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Dymaxion
12+ albums
experimentalelectronicnoisealternativeExperimental Rock
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Dymaxion was the New York-based post-rock project of Jeremy Novak and Claudia Newell, who specialized in fusing playful sound collages with live instrumentation. They often shared Stereolab's retro-futurist obsessions, sampling old sound-effects LPs, robotic voices, and an array of vintage electronics. Most of their songs were underpinned by funky, off-kilter drum loops, and borrowed the fragmentary songwriting aesthetic of indie rockers like Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 and, by extension, cartoon experimenters Carl Stalling and Raymond Scott. In concert, a live band usually replicated the abrupt twists and turns created on the recordings via tape splicing. To this mix, Novak and Newell often added odd dialogue samples, twangy spy-soundtrack guitar, and clanging post-punk (a la the Fall or Swell Maps). The results were often comparable to electronic eccentrics like Matmos, Pram, or Stock, Hausen & Walkman, with hints of electro-acoustic post-rockers like To Rococo Rot.Novak and Newell first got together as Dymaxion in 1995. Their earliest recordings were self-released cassettes, which were followed by a succession of EPs on various indie labels. The first, Aha, Sissy Arsonist, was a four-song effort for the U.K.-based Hemiola label, and appeared in 1995. It was followed a year later by another four-songer, The Critic's Darling, for Roomtone, which was in turn followed by the three-song Verfremdungseffekt for Vesuvius. These releases helped build an underground following f
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Dymaxion x 4 + 3 = 38:33
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7 Inch Compilation
Dymaxion X 4 + 3 = 38.33
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Rough Trade Shops : Counter Culture [2002]
Llama Ranch Compilation
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Anchor: Trattoria Compilation [Disc 3]
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Dymaxion x 4 + 3 = 38'33"
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Rough Trade Shops: Counter Culture [Disc 1]
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Rough Trade Shops : Counter Culture 2002 [CD1]
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Awakened By Reality
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Dymaxion x 4 + 3 = 39:21
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We Love You... So Love Us