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Particle Junkie

About Me

Particle Junkie - Hot'n'Nerdy available at CDBaby.com
Particle Junkie is Flynn Gleason. In 1995, being a bit of a nerd, he fell in love with synthesizers and drum machines. He joined his friend Adam LaBarge to embark on a project called Fulcrum Clearance 12'0" (or fc120). Using software, they forged their own cut and paste style of music based in synthetic soundscapes and experimental noise, inspired summarily by a few Warp Records artists and a rather healthy dose of industrial.
Over the years the tools got better, and so did the music, but they never saw fit to release it to more than friends, always focused on creating the next great song rather than promotion or money. After a good run, Adam moved onto other ventures, and Flynn continued composing under the name Facade. This went on for the next few years, as he branched out from his dark influences, exploring melodies, sound design, rhythm, and vocals, striving to deliver funk while challenging the notion that electronic music is cold and unemotional. Never one to stick to a genre, the only way to somewhat accurately phrase what you may hear in an average Particle Junkie song is a good beat and a collage of synthesizers morphing and blipping in a surreal pseudo-organic fashion, sometimes with vocals, robotic or otherwise. Eventually Flynn decided the name Facade was "a little too pretentious or something," and changed his name to Particle Junkie, which is far less pretentious by his estimation.
Which brings us to today, and the release of his debut album, "Hot'n'Nerdy". The album ranges from long evolving danceable soundscapes to humorous pop songs about nerds and salmon teriyaki. If particulate matter has you hooked, here's an excuse to celebrate.
Particle Junkie - Hot'n'Nerdy available at CDBaby.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 17/07/2005
Band Website: http://cdbaby.com/cd/particlejunkie
Band Members: Flynn Gleason: composition, lyrics, sound design, programming, vocals
Influences:

residual: aphex twin, autechre, depeche mode, dj shadow, download, future sound of london, haujobb, meat beat manifesto, orbital, plaid, portishead, nin, snog

newer: air, daft punk, gorillaz, oingo boingo, royksopp, tim and eric awesome show great job!


Sounds Like: what yer listening to right now
Record Label: Clone Bot Music
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

wicky wicky chicky wah

Holy snapadinsky, y'all!  I'm up on Itunes!I'm sure the reason you haven't bought my music yet is because I wasn't on Itunes, or you're too cool, or broke, or you don't buy music, or you think el...
Posted by on Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:57:00 GMT

Emotronica 2

dang!  myspace stole my emotronica term and shortened it to emotronic so i can't sue them.  well at least i can use it now to describe how wistful and electronic i am.  at the same time...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 00:25:00 GMT

Emotronica

Oh blog, how neglected art theee. It's one of those rare moments when I feel compelled to give you a spanking. uh nivermendEmotronica. That's right, I coined it. Go blog it up, beeitchesOh and hey...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 22:04:00 GMT

New Song - the Cutest Robot

Yo I have a new song that y'all can download.  I entered it in an international contest for Reason users, and came in as a runner up.  Being selected as one of six of the best isn't too bad ...
Posted by on Fri, 02 Dec 2005 10:51:00 GMT