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Electronic SubSouth

Florida's Live Electronic Music Movement

About Me

Electronic SubSouth represents a Florida-specific electronic music movement, so if you are not a fan or musician based in Florida, we'll most likely deny you as a "friend" (the same goes for any non-electronic music acts). No offense... we're focused soley on the proliferation and networking of Florida's electronic music scene. To find out more of what we're all about, please check our offical page:
ElectronicSubSouth.com
Gainesville, Florida has got a great music scene, but if you want something that doesn't involve the guitar/bass/drums/vocals combo then you're pretty much out of luck. My main musical genre of interest is electronic music, but no bands of that ilk ever come here and the local promoters don't really seem to put any effort into bringing them down. I remember driving to Gainesville during the late 80's and early 90's to see Industrial and IDM bands play... but then what happened? There was also a local Noise and IDM scene in the late 90's, but that just kind of disappeared too.
I decided in April 2004 that it really only takes one person to organize a "scene", and with the help of some friends that's what I've set out to do.
The purpose of the events are to showcase various genres of beat-driven compositional electronic music: 8-Bit, Big Beat, Bliss-Out, Drill 'N' Bass, Electroclash, IDM, Industrial, Nu-Electro, Synthpop, Synthpunk, and/or Weirdoid Electronica. Musicians who use mainly electronic instruments, and performance/image based acts are what we're focused on.
We are specifically steering clear of guitar-heavy Bliss-Out, Dance/Club, DJs, Dub, Hip-Hop, Hip-Hop IDM, House, beatless Glitch, rolling drumline/cymbal crash-heavy Goth/EBM/Trance Industrial, guitar-heavy Industrial/Darkwave, mc-driven Jungle/Drum 'N' Bass, Musique Concrete, improvised Noise, Nu Metal, R&B, boring repetitive Techno, Trance, and acts that use mainly traditional Rock instruments ( ie: if your band has one or more guitarists, with keyboards serving soley as a rhythm or backing instrument, you are not an electronic or Synthpop band ). Those scenes are already well-established and we desperately want something new here in Florida. Miami has and organized electronic music scene, but not with as broad a range of genres as what we're trying to bring together.
These shows are organized under the name of ElectronicSubSouth.com (ESS). "SubSouth" refers to Florida mainly, being that we are below the "South" and becoming a much different state than any above us. Miami seems too far away and exclusive (sadly, they rarely ever share their scene with the rest of Florida), so we're focusing on acts from Tallahassee, Jacksonville, Gainesville, Orlando, Tampa, St. Pete, Clearwater, etc. The shows will most likely end up being here in Gainesville, but we at least would like to network with folks in the other towns.
The future goal of ElectronicSubSouth.com is to eventually create enough interest in electronic music that the local promoters and venues will once again be willing to bring in national and international electronic music acts.


Florida's Live Electronic & Experimental Music Movement

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/18/2005
Band Website: ElectronicSubSouth.com
Band Members: FEATURED MUSIC PLAYER SONGS ARE TEMPORARILY ON LOAN WITH PERMISSION.
Influences: We are looking for musicians who compose and perform: 8-Bit, Big Beat, Bliss-Out, Drill 'N' Bass, Electroclash, IDM, Industrial, Nu-Electro, Synthpop, Synthpunk, and/or Weirdoid Electronica.

In addition to the music, we also encourage a "look" and/or stage presence that will compliment an act's electronic sound. If not, then at least another aspect which is performance-based, such as: an accompanying dance troupe, a puppet show, random theatrics, an interesting stage set-up, unique instruments or other devices, a science fiction theme, costumes and trans-gendered make-up, etc. After all, it is supposed to be a "performance", right? Why not collaborate with some non-musical artists?

Hacknied and boring things to watch are: musicians wearing t-shirt & jeans, commercially available videos/movies being played/projected, musicians crouched over a borrowed bar table, motionless laptoppers "checking their email", etc. Not to say that we will necessarily turn any performer down; these are just preferential suggestions.

Sounds Like: These are some electronic musicians who inspire what we're trying to showcase in terms of composition, performance, and/or visual style:

ABC (pre-1986), Add N To X , Addicted2Fiction , Adult. , Airoes , Alec Empire , Alien Sex Fiend , Ellen Allien , Dot Allison (pre-2003), Amon Tobin , Amy Kasio , Laurie Anderson , AntiQuark , [a]pendics.shuffle / Eight Frozen Modules , Aphex Twin , AtomTM , Automatic Panic , Autonervous , Battyho , Beatnikeuz , Bis (post-1997), boygirL , The Capricorns , John Carpenter , The Causey Way , Chicks On Speed , Coil , ComputeHer , Crossover , Cursor Miner , Crystal Castles , Curve , Datathief , Dan Deacon , Depeche Mode (pre-1988), Depth Charge , Devo (pre-1985), DHS , Die Tödliche Doris , Die Warzau (pre-1996), Dirty Sanchez , Duran Duran (pre-1985), EBN , 8 Bit Weapon , Hanin Elias , The Epoxies , Erasure , Eurythmics (pre-1984), Jessie Evans , Fad Gadget / Frank Tovey , The Faint , A Flock Of Seagulls , Fischerspooner , The Flashbulb , John Foxx , Freezepop , Friends With You , Gater , Girls On Film , Goudron , Greater Than One , The Hacker , Bruce Haack , Haujobb , Headphone Karaoke , Heaven 17 , Hong Kong Counterfeit / Total Macchina , The Human League (pre-1985 / post-2000), J+J+J , Japan , Jega , Jimi Tenor , jonAflid , Joy Electric , Kids On TV , Kitbuilders , Kites With Lights , KKBB / A Girl And A Gun , The Knife , Kraftwerk , Ladytron , Lamette , Mark Lane , Larvae , LCD Soundsystem , Locust / Mark Van Hoen (pre-1996), Magas , Malaria! , Meat Beat Manifesto , Ministry (pre-1986/pre-metal), Miss Kittin , M.J. , Mount Sims , Mr. Oizo , My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult (pre-1990), My Robot Friend , Neotropic , The Neon Judgement , Nervous Gender , Drew Neumann , Nitzer Ebb , No More , The Normal , Negativland , Gary Numan (pre-1984), oHgr , O.M.D. (pre-1987), Peaches , Perverse Teens , Peter Glam & The Buttfuckers , Photek , The Postal Service , pr0metheus buRning , Propaganda , Protman / Protman & Dangergirl , Psilodump , Polysics , Puyo Puyo , Quintron , rahbras / WHOHM , Räuberhöhle , Recorder , Angie Reed , Renegade Soundwave (pre-1993), The Residents , The Rip-Off Artist , Robots In Disguise , Oskar Sala , The Scientific Americans , Scorn , Raymond Scott , The Secret Society Of The Sonic Six , Severed Heads , Sheep On Drugs , Sixteens , Skinny Puppy (pre-1993), Sleep Museum , The Soft Pink Truth , Solvent , S.P.K. , Spore Cloud From Planet M-67 , Squarepusher , SSQ , Stereolab , Starbase 109 , Tarwater , Thompson Twins (pre-1986), Thought Universe , Tino , Tones On Tail , Toxic Lipstick , Tracy + The Plastics , Trans Am , T.Raumschmiere , Uberzone , U-Clic , The Vanishing , VCR , Venetian Snares , Luke Vibert , Vitalic , Vive La Fete , Volsoc , Visage , Wall Of Voodoo , Kim Wilde (pre-1987), Winterbrief , Xymox / Clan Of Xymox , Yip-Yip , Zom Zoms

Record Label: Florida's Electronic Music Movement
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Weekly Electronic Musician Spotlight

I thought it would be cool to start a new series of weekly myspace bulletins, spotlighting Florida-based electronic musicians. The purpose of these bulletins will be to bring overall interest to our s...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:18:00 PST

Action Research article in The Independent Florida Alligator

An article highlighting Action Research was published in the July 3, 2008 issue of local University Of Florida student-run newspaper, The Independent Florida Alligator.  I'm interviewed in it bri...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:55:00 PST

Electronic SubSouth Meeting 10 on July 18, 2008

We are having our next Electronic SubSouth organizational meeting on Saturday, July 19th from 3:30pm-6:30pm, and I would like to extend an invitation for everyone's attendance. This means every music...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 06:55:00 PST

Statement of Inclusivity

Lately I've been noticing a growing amount of hateful and intolerant opinions being expressed online.  I thought it relevant to take a moment to make it known where I stand:Electronic SubSouth do...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:45:00 PST

Musicians Interested in Being Booked

Before contacting Electronic SubSouth about a show, please make sure to first read the "About" section on our offical page.If you are an electronic musician interested in being booked for an event, pl...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Thu, 29 May 2008 11:01:00 PST

Action Research Documentary

For those of you unaware, Action Research is an organization which promotes experimental music and noise shows here in Gainesville, Florida.  I am proud to be associated with them, and was interv...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:37:00 PST

The Electronic SubSouth Facebook profile has been "disabled".

In November 2007 I launched an Electronic SubSouth Facebook profile. I found the site to be a bit too non-intuitive and confusing, but did regard it as being almost up there with Myspace and/or a per...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:19:00 PST

Dear Gainesville... JUSTICE is coming. Do you care?

So, I'm hearing rumors that Justice is going to be playing at Club Firestone in Orlando on March 6th.  I guess all you Gainesvillians are once again satisfied with paying the $6+ toll fee on the ...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:42:00 PST

Music & Politics

Ok, so I understand that we are all human beings... and a lot of us here are Americans.  I also understand that we are heading into a very heated and important election year.That said, as a band ...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:21:00 PST

How can we improve Florida’s electronic music movement?

How can we improve Florida's electronic music movement?  This is one of my main goals for 2008.  If you go to our blog, you can read my current assessment of "The State of Florida's Live Ele...
Posted by Electronic SubSouth on Wed, 05 Dec 2007 12:50:00 PST