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Teargas & Plateglass
12+ albums
industrialtrip-hopambientelectronicdark ambient
about
A production duo with a dark, illbient edge, Teargas & Plateglass came together in 2001. Remixes for 311, Tweaker, and Natacha Atlas kept the duo busy until they partnered with Ursula Rucker from the Roots for their first original work, "When We Are Ignorant," a track that appeared on the Being Black collection in 2003. Their self-titled debut appeared in 2004 on Waxploitation with guest spots from King Britt, Zap Mama, and Natacha Atlas. ~ David Jeffries, Rovi Other than the music they release every so often, not much is known about Teargas & Plateglass. In many ways, what’s not known about the band says more about them than what is. We don’t know who they are or where they come from or where they reside. But we know they are fond of the works of Godfrey Reggio and Sebastaio Salgado, David Sylvian, Jennifer Charles, and David Hykes. We know the last interview the band did was five years ago. We know their last album, Black Triage, concentrated on themes about genocide. What others have said about the band, from time to time, has helped fill in some of the details. The American Film Institute, which exhibited their music videos, called them “a bold experimental vision." URB says the band “pave the way so the dark side can take its rightful place at the forefront of the genre." XLR8R described their sound as “darkness mixed thick like a pool of blood” and advised listeners to “take with a stiff glass of Absinthe.” Danger Mouse likened their music to “the end of the
