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flatline skyline

About Me

All Sound / No Vision is available now through mechanoise-labs.com !
"..One of those bands impossible to describe, and even more difficult to compare, which is a rare quality these days.. Flatline Skyline will undoubtedly be a band to watch on the electronic music horizon."
- virus magazine (virus-mag.com)
"..Flatline Skyline's "Horizon Grid" is an amazing piece of music and a great show of talent. [It] is a stunning debut from a very talented duo. An innovative album that demands careful and attentive listening and should definitely be checked out by anyone with an interest in good music."
- connexion bizarre (connexionbizarre.net)
"..a nice balance of melancholic IDM that sparkles with melody and sadness. "Horizon Grid" is not to be passed up, this is truly a contender for album of the year."
- re:automation (reautomation.com)
"..The melancholia of Horizon Grid is darkened by the preternatural ruin of a broke-down civilization that hisses and crackles in the background.. Scott and Kemp have pulled back the metal casements from their hearts and are letting us see how all the pumps and valves work. Very nice."
- igloo magazine (igloomag.com)
"..The captivating minimal buzzes, whines and pops are ever present.. Against all expectations, this stylistical hodgepodge never gets out of hand, and every last detail of every track is executed with meticulous precision and excellent sense of finesse.. Only non-compromising industrial puritans need not apply."
- radium webzine (radiumclub.net)
"More than a perfect symbiosis between man and the machines, this monumental disc proves that imperfections and the soul of the former are critical for the latter's survival."
- premonition (premonition.fr)

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 18/04/2005
Band Website: flatlineskyline.com
Band Members: j kemp / r scott - lyrics, vocals, analog synthesizers, effects, percussion, feedback, cassette manipulation, bass, piano, samples, sequences, production, instrument designs and modifications, etc. .
Influences: 4ad, 5rc, acreil, alejandro jodorowsky, alfred bester, ambient sound, analog synthesis, arvo pärt, autechre, avant garde, bauhaus, begotten, big black, the birthday party, black dice, black eyes, blade runner, boards of canada, brian eno, briefscenes, broadcast, can, cat power, cex, the chameleons, chris carter, the cocteau twins, coil, corpus delicti, david sylvian, dead can dance, dischord records, diy instruments and effects, dream pop, einsturzende neubauten, electronics, elliott smith, eml, erik satie, experimentation, f.m. einheit, factory records, fad gadget, feedback, flatline skyline, found sounds, friendship foundation, fugazi, gencab, getting lost, glitch, guitar noise, harold budd, henryk górecki, hip hop, idm, improvisation, (early) industrial, infra-tester, ingmar bergman, isis, james, japanoise, john cage, john cale, joy division, korg, lee renaldo, the legendary pink dots, leonard cohen, liars, margaret atwood, math grenades, mechanoise-labs, merzbow, michael gira, modern drugs, modest mouse, modular synthesizers, múm, mute records, my bloody valentine, neu!, new order, nick cave and the bad seeds, nick drake, no wave, noise, nurse with wound, one a.m. radio, orchestral manoeuvres in the dark, patti smith, pere ubu, peter gabriel, pg.99, philip glass, pianos, pink floyd, the pixies, power electronics, prefuse 73, public image ltd., radiohead, reel-to-reel, r.e.m., robert rental, robert wyatt, science fact, science fiction, shriekback, skinny puppy, slowdive, sonic youth, soundtracks, spk, squarepusher, steve reich, suicide, swans, swell maps, syr, talking heads, tape manipulation, television, this heat, this mortal coil, throbbing gristle, tom waits, tomita, vintage technology, warp records, whitehouse, william gibson, wire, xiu xiu, yellow magic orchestra, yo la tengo, zoviet france
Sounds Like: Two steps forward, two steps back, you know, all those phone lines coming down.
Record Label: mechanoise labs
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

the new album- out now!

Thanks for all of the interest and the patience. We can't believe it took this long, either.. but "All Sound / No Vision" is finally out!For free mp3s, reviews and a paypal link, check the mechanoise-...
Posted by on Tue, 21 Apr 2009 06:58:00 GMT

all sound / no vision. ( Our New Album!! )

We're currently finishing the artwork and ironing out the manufacturing details. . but the new album will be available through Mechanoise-Labs soon!The disc has been mastered by Golden Mastering (Xiu ...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:45:00 GMT

The Future

Ok, so it's been a while since we made any noise online, but we've been making it offline.  We are most of the way through with our second, third, and fourth full-lengths, and we are going to begin fi...
Posted by on Mon, 21 May 2007 10:29:00 GMT

new tracks are up!

After a five-day recording session about a month ago, and a good solid month of follow-up (mostly Robert flexing his production muscles), we have some new tracks done and a few of them posted.  These ...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Jul 2006 14:02:00 GMT

Flatline Skyline / Graboids SHOW TONIGHT !!

come to d.c. tonight.flatline skyline and graboids are prepared to rock your soul tonight at the black cat !be there.
Posted by on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 10:17:00 GMT

SHOW !!! this saturday in philadelphia!

flatline skyline is playing the medusa lounge this saturday (november 19th). don't miss it.click here for more info !or click here for the myspace event page !UPDATE:here's the tracklisting for the sa...
Posted by on Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:18:00 GMT

Get "Horizon Grid" before this pressing sells out!!

our debut album, horizon grid [mn026], is now available from mechanoise-labs.the price is 14 euros (approx. $17)including worldwide shipping from France(or 13 euros with shipping to europe)use the "Bu...
Posted by on Sun, 05 Jun 2005 18:13:00 GMT