Oddknock

"Their trippy tracks of electronic bliss may, more than any other part of your body, make your mind dance."- The Shpiel(FL.)"It’s hard to pass off Oddknock’s arsenal of soulful yet digital mayhem as anything less than a modern insurgence through a jungle of large, lily-pad snare drums, deep, resonant bass vines wrapped around tree trunks of tribal funk, and a bright blue sky that calms while reminding you of its ability to change color at any second."- Reax Magazine(FL.)"Remember when “unplugged” shows were all the rage? Take the electricity away, and you find out what the artist is really made of. Well the equivalent for Electronic artists is ditching the laptop and backing tracks and just getting Funky with synths, samplers and sequencers. Oddknock is a proud practitioner of this “old school” form, and his music is all about giving props to the originators of what would become Techno.You will dig his music if you like:Meat Beat Manifesto, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher. "-City Beat(OH.) Action Research Halloween 2008 STARFIRE RANCH HOUSE SHOW 2008 click here to buy the cd
Oddknock, aka Jacob Timmer is a solo multi-instrumentalist,who uses hardware samplers,sequencers and synths to produce and perform electronic music live. His sound is influenced by early 80’s electro, breakbeat, bigbeat, drum and bass, glitch and idm. He uses the term “Spacebeat” to describe his cutting edge style. His live shows consist of a mix of : performance art,dance party, real time manipulation of beat heavy electronic music and eye catching visual projections. He uses his home base in , Gainesville, Fl. to play shows and produce tracks, and to frequently plan events and collabration projects with his fellow local, regional, and national live electronic musicians.The buzz around his live performances have been covered in numerous publications including : Reax, Insite, Creative Loafing (Atlanta,Ga.), Weekly Planet (Tampa Fl.),The Gainesville Sun, and Moon Magazine. Jacob's music has been featured on a number of radio pod casts online and makes regular apparences on the local radio show “Caberet Synthetiq”on 100.5 The Buzz to play new songs and promote upcoming shows and events.He has been interviewd on both WMNF 88.5 Free Radio Tampa,Fl. as well as 88.5 Album 88 WRAS Atlanta,Ga. In 2002 Jacob was one of the first electronic musicians to perform on the long running electronic radio show “The Perimeter” on Kiss 105 FM Gainesville, Fl.. Since 1995 Jacob Timmer has played over 200 events and has shared the stage with various big names including: Atomic Babies,Crystal Method, Dandi Wind,Dj Shadow, Dj. Spooky, Dubtribe Sound System, Deisel Boy, Freezepop, Hive, John B, Krust, Larve, Lords of Acid, LTJ Bukem, Roni Size, STS9, Skylab 2000, The Pharcyde, and many more.Jacob Timmer has been commissioned to produce music for X-Box,Dodge and independent films.Plans for the future include: a documentary on live electronic music and the full score for a major full length feature film. In addition to producing music for television and commercials, Jacob runs his own booking company and label, Metric System. Another area interest for Jacob is re mixes. He has an extensive back catalogue of remix work for artists such as: A Tribe Called Quest, Beenie Man, Beastie Boys, DarkMachines, David Bowie, De Champfleury, Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, Outkast, and The Viirus.His debut full lenth album“Parsecs & Passageways”was released in August of 2007 and has been praised by critics around the globe. At the moment Jacob is gearing up for a full year of shows including an east coast tour in the summer of 2008. He will be touring to promote his second full length release, ”Computer Age” due out in the fall of 2008