Biography
A Bill Wood and Jules Desmond ambient/noise/drone duo from Wellington, sometimes with contributions from Ben Spiers. Quite a pleasant listen as far as drone recordings go – their recordings often posses a haunting quality.
String driven shiver floating in a lake of orchestral sheen. Hyper-kinetic drones fashioned from the slow moving gracefulness of supersonic spacejunk. Aimless grandeur.
Label description of ‘The System Likes You And Wants To Be Your Friend’ (Pseudoarcana)
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Though very productive from 1999 to 2008, the group have been fairly quiet since with only 2 releases in the last 15 years.
Members
- Bill Wood (guitar / noises, 1/3 Octave Band, Birdcatcher, Dead Vicious, Wellington Heads)
- Jules Desmond (guitar / noises, 1/3 Octave Band, Bachelor Of Architecture, Black Boned Angel, D-Super, Letterbox Lambs)
Discography
- Radiotron Lathe Cut 7″ (1999, Self-Released)
- Fading Light From Distant Suns CDr (2000, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
- Irregardless CDr (2000, Self-Released)
- Tarakohe 7″ (2000, Fusetron)
- Festerville CDr (2002, Freedom From)
- Apocalypse Now And Then CDr (2002, Stinkbuzz Recording Co-op)
- 1/2 Octave Band / Ben Spiers / Witcyst – Mailorder 2 Lathe Cut 8″ (2002, Crawlspace Records)
- Atem CDr (2003, Denshi Zatsuon)
- Piscean Tragedies 2×Lathe Cut 8″ (2003, Crawlspace Records)
- The System Likes You And Wants To Be Your Friend CDr (2005, PseudoArcana)
- The Nether Dawn / 1/3 Octave Band – Live At Sound&Fury 04.09.2005 CDr (2005, Sound & Fury)
- Navigation By Light CDr (2006, Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
- Sub Lumina (2006, Humbug)
- Icarus (2007, Humbug)
- Weapons Of Mass Dystopia CDr (2007, diagnosis… DON’T! reCoRdings)
- I Will Pass By Here (2008, Humbug)
- Ultramarine Lathe Cut (2014, PseudoArcana)
- Headlands Lathe Cut, 12″ (2018, PseudoArcana)