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)
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 (Birdcatcher, Dead Vicious, Wellington Heads, guitar / noises)
- Jules Desmond (Bachelor Of Architecture, Black Boned Angel, D-Super, Ejector, Letterbox Lambs, guitar / noises)
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)