Escape Mechanism profile picture

Escape Mechanism

About Me

Using fragments of sound from the film reels, radios, television sets and record releases which make up our often overpowering media environment, Escape Mechanism is an ongoing experiment in recycled sound.

NEW ALBUM, SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

More info at www.escape-mechanism.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 25/04/2008
Band Website: www.escape-mechanism.com
Band Members: Jonathan Nelson
Influences: The sounds in my head, when I dream, thanks to growing up in a media-soaked universe.
Sounds Like: No one artist in particular, but it wouldn't be totally insane to hear someone comparing Escape Mechanism to artists such as The Tape-beatles, The Evolution Control Committee, Negativland, Wayne Butane, Emergency Broadcast Network, Cassetteboy, Steinski, Lecture On Nothing, The Avalanches, RX Music, People Like Us, Think Tank, John Oswald, Jeffrey Sconce, DJ Shadow, Twink, Public Works, Orchid Spangiafora, The Art of Noise, DJ Food, Realistic, Wax Audio, The Bran Flakes or Osymyso to name just a few, really...
Record Label: Recombinations, Staalplaat
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Escape Mechanism - "Cycles" (2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JXmtR1Aq9k Found one of my own videos on YouTube... "Cycles" off of the debut release... There are others uploaded there as well... Jon
Posted by on Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:39:00 GMT

Escape Mechanism Interview: The Onion

Interview with Escape Mechanism in The Onion.It makes sense that Jon Nelson's art is inspired by dreams, since it's created using the same building blocks: fragments of memory, broken and reorganized ...
Posted by on Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:30:00 GMT

WIRED Magazine

New Album by Escape Mechanism featured in the January, 2009 issue of WIRED Magazine...Check it out HERE.
Posted by on Sun, 28 Dec 2008 11:08:00 GMT

Escape Mechanism NEWS

(Emphasis Added), Escape Mechanism's first new Studio Album in nearly ten years, has been doing fairly well in its first month on the scene. There have been a few nice reviews, two or three appearance...
Posted by on Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:13:00 GMT

NEW Studio Album by Escape Mechanism

Escape Mechanism's new studio album, "(Emphasis Added)" is finished and scheduled for a late September release.Escape Mechanism is back with its first studio album in nearly ten years... 1998's self-t...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:20:00 GMT