"UNIT PANIC—once the abandoned bastard twins of a Venetian contortionist, this oft-wronged duo now describes itself as, “an experiment in folly,†an appellation which has garnered them standing ovations from orphanages across the continents, one of which, the Der Ofen in Berlin, claims the painful crescendos of the traveling troupe cured many of the orphans of life, leaving them twitching about on the floor long after the performance concluded. The musical twins were separated at birth (one sent to Russia) (one to Chicago), only to be reunited miraculously in a History of Rock Music Class, twenty years later, where they recognized their shared genetics by their shared predilection for Asian women and robots—interests which were the cultivated the following summer when they collaborated on their first album: “Asian Chix; Robot Dix,†recorded in a local mini mart without consent of the owner. But M Rush, the decidedly “older†twin, was not satisfied with the moderate success of Unit Panic’s debut album. Drawing from his upbringing in rural Chicago and experience sorting “mountains of broken electronics†in a junkyard where his father worked, M Rush (born Moody Roosh) transformed the sexual enthusiasm of “Asian Chix…†into the masturbatory mellifluousness which Unit Panic is now famous for. Since then the themes of self-pleasuring have never left M Rush’s lyrics, resulting in the now-legendary line: “We run everything through it, everything.†But were it not for the innovative and blisteringly painful techno-phonics developed by band mate Iggy P (pronounced pig-naut), the success of the duo’s second album, “My Frothing Rod,†would never have been. In creating an entirely new system of sound, Iggy P drew from his own background as a teenage organ-grinder in Moscow, remembering the acoustic revelation he had when hearing the splashes of drunken prostitutes discharging vomit within stone tunnels. The conflation of these two apparently incongruous elements—vomit and masturbation—pushed “My Frothing Rod†and Unit Panic to a new stratosphere of stardom, a level of fame uncontested by even the most startling dictators. The duo currently resides in West California with a puppy named Rascal and is toiling hard on their third album—tentatively titled: “Urine Mouthwashâ€â€”which is slated for release next December."
-Koji Frahm (writer, friend, and robophile)
M Rush -- bass, voice, ones and zeros :: Iggy P -- guitar, more voice, noise++ :: unit panic.
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