Broken Symmetry is now a duo of founding members Thompson / Hughes who have been working on new sounds for future performance material since their last show at City Skies in May 2009. "We have obtained new gear in recent months, which we are excited about and are in the process of tweaking patches and composing new materal" said Doug. One recent session is now in the music player to give you some idea of were they are headed.Background on Broken Symmetry: Doug Hughes partnered with Mitchell Foy in Tenth To The Moon from 10/2001-02/2009 playing synths and occasionally percussion. Prior to that Doug played drums for Keith Lee's Liar's Club, which led to a one time reunion of the great King Kill 33' at The EARL -03/2001. Doug made his stage debut at the Destroy All Music Festival in 1988 playing guitar with the band Album 88, and the following year in Fluid Transmission, both featuring an assortment of WREK hangers-ons and DJs. Doug was a founding member of My Evil Twin, which recorded for the Perimeter Christmas compilations in the late 80's through 1993. Doug began in the late 80's by recording/mixing tapes of found sounds, mixed with crude digital samples and loops of guitar effects. Guitar gradually became the primary focus, he also plays drums, bass and synthesizers.His Solar Wind studio became the recording arm for the independent label Perimeter Records, assembling the Annual Perimeter Christmas compilation, a free promotional cassette, released between 1987-1993. This tradition was continued by Hughes in '96-'97 under the Outer Loop tag. He recorded Pineal Ventana jam sessions for inclusion on their CD releases, as well as hosting the sessions for their 1st demo in 1993.
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Gene Thompson formed a partnership with Hughes in the late 80's, recording and performing for Perimeter Records as Thompson/Hughes; this project eventually became Broken Symmetry. Gene also worked with My Evil Twin and Fluid Transmission, playing syn-drums, acoustic drums, sax and violin.He produced four solo albums of electronic music for Outer Loop, melding world music with electronic synthesis, with and without drums/percussion. These releases used a variety of sound samples culled from the internet, which Gene worked into the mix with his own sound creations.While in Boston in the 1980's, Gene was a member of Shut-up, Savage Ohms, Monad and Inner Space, the later of these once opened for Gong in 1979 at the Modern Theater. Gene performed on drums, recording several records with these bands as well as with members of Cul-De-Sac and as a duo with Chris Hanzsik.
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Chris Swartz left the band in January 2009 due to personal reasons; he joined full time in 1999, and the Swartz era Broken Symmetry produced some great material. We wish him well and the door is always open. Chris founded Atlanta's "Perimeter Records" with partner Robert Hollis; they released 3 vinyl albums in the late 80's as Hollis/Swartz on their label. They were notable for performing and recording on home built instruments; exclusively, on their second and third albums Music for Homebuilt Instruments and 11 x 2. The home builts included a variety of percussion and stringed instruments, some inspired by Harry Partch and several other artists; some Chris designed and constructed himself.Chris helped foster the Atlanta underground music scene by releasing annual Perimeter Records Christmas cassettes, which featured many aspiring artists and noise makers, to promote the label. He recently compiled the best of these recordings as a 2 CD release, mailed to many of the same college stations who received the cassette releases in the late 80's-early 90's. Perimeter Records also released full length cassettes and 12" vinyl product, most notably "Nine Underground", a collection of recordings by various Atlanta bands/artists, which was routinely featured on WREK 91.1 FM "Destroy All Music "show in the late 80's. This release includes an appearance by Jarboe, later of Swans and now a veteran solo artist.Chris was a founding member of King Kill 33', as their original drummer. He recorded with Pineal Ventana and performed with numerous Atlanta area bands, including Skeesicks, Disk, 349, Liars Club and My Evil Twin. He also recorded and performed various solo projects and in Eta Carinae, working with former King Kill 33' bassist Donna Smith as an electronic duo.
