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Ilima from Childhood Friends says:"For the lodging last night. It was like being a member of the French resistance to be able to walk up to a house in the dead of night, knock on the door and say, "We're friends of the Dead Air Fresheners," and be let in."
The instrumentation of the group is primarily lo-fi analog electronics and analog wind instruments, but the make-up of the Dead Air Fresheners is always changing. Formed around 1996-7, they are shrouded in mystery, doing strange multi-media presentations hidden in a variety of masks. Moog and tape samples mix sometimes, but not always, with noise and prepared guitar, ambient vocals, distorted feedback, sometimes drums but often other percussion things, computers and digital toys, and even digeridoo.
They have played around the northwest with noise bands such as Noggin and techno hippies such as Terran Spiral, toured Pittsburgh behind poet Chuck Swaim, and have put in sets at Olympias Experimental Music Festival for eleven years straight. An internet radio broadcast on station KMLP, also behind the mighty Mr. Swaim, was purported to be heard by some 12,000 streaming listeners including one very excited Russian who proclaimed in an e-mail, "Dead Air Fresheners Rock!"
In addition to one album I Try To Show My Love, on independent Plastic Duck Records in 1999, they have produced three self-released albums from 2001-2003 providing soundtracks to Chuck Swaims poetry: Verses of Echo, Bastard Customer, and Pleasure Is Where All Labor Ends. They appeared on two compilation CDRs: Infamous Polywogs Vol. 1? released by Inlet Recordings in 2002 and Infamous Polywogs Vol. 2? released by Kill Pop Tarts in 2004. Finally, 2006 saw the release on Kill Pop Tarts of a new Dead Air Fresheners only CDR-ep called An Ulcer is a String of Pearls, and also the inclusion of the track "God Damn Bullfighter" on a compilation by Icky Recordings entitled Reek of Influence. And now, at last, the new album A Slip Inside the Quiet Room is out on Icky Recordings!
The current direction of the group is once again primarily an instrumental one, allowing for a handful of very special shows per year.

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Music:

Member Since: 12/26/2005
Band Website: flickr.com/photos/deadair/sets/1409930/
Band Members: Through the years membership has included musicians who've also played in such groups as Karp, And You Shall Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Noggin, Nice Nice, Leopards, A:Frequency, Slip, Blue Faces, That Stupid Club, Wood Paneling, Sun Lake, the Awful, and Canned Pirhana. However, the identity of these members has always been hidden.
Influences: Sun Ra, Sonic Youth, John Cage, Throbbing Gristle, Zoviet France, Brian Eno, Autechre, Noggin, Sun City Girls, Crank Sturgeon, Cabaret Voltaire, Negativland, Kraftwerk, The Residents, Clara Rockmore, Steve Fisk, Jandek, Suicide, Screamers, Chuck Swaim, Leopards, Glenn Branca, Black Dice, Nurse With Wound, Christian Marclay, This Heat, Hafler Trio, John Oswald, Can, Tape Beatles, No-Neck Blues Band, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Ornette Coleman, Snivlem
Sounds Like: Tape hiss is the blow job of lo-fi.
Record Label: Kill Pop Tarts, Plastic Duck, Inlet, Icky Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

You Can’t See the Filter for the Trees.

Below is the score to the piece we will be premiering Saturday, December 1st, 2007 at Rererato, 5135 NE 42nd Ave., Portland OR 97218 at this show!...
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Fri, 30 Nov 2007 07:40:00 PST

12/1 @ Rererato w/ Moodring, Smoke & Mirrors, and Eet Uncooked!

We got a fun show coming off to kick off December with absolutely no Christmas references!Saturday, December 1st, 2007KPSU presentsMoodring,Smoke & Mirrors,Dead Air Fresheners,and Eet Uncookedat Rerer...
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:52:00 PST

10,000 Views on My Space!

We ran our own "official" website at deadairfresheners.com for 6 years and eventually reached a little over 10,000 hits before we decided it just wasn't worth paying to maintain when we were getting s...
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:57:00 PST

I Try to Show My Love...

This is the J-card insert of the very first album by the Dead Air Fresheners, I Try to Show My Love released in 1999 as a cassette on Olympia WA's glorious Plastic Duck Recordings label. Featuring co...
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 11:36:00 PST

You have had a long-term stimulation relative to business

The score from the piece the Dead Air Fresheners will be premiering tonight at Rererato in Portland OR....
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:30:00 PST

Wikipedia Madness and a show at Rererato with Cabinet of Natural Curiosities!

Yes, we're playing again, just 8 days since our last show, with a fuller line-up. After this though, seasonal hibernation is very likely (we have stopped making ultimatums, but really we are way too ...
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:28:00 PST

Awareness Is Free will be our CD Release Show

A lot of exciting news here in the land of the Dead Air Fresheners! We've at last finished recording, mixing, and mastering for our new album a Slip Inside the Quiet Room which is now set to be relea...
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Sun, 09 Sep 2007 07:04:00 PST

In a World Where YOU Are the Media...

...We thank YOU for the Videos!When to grieve the heartit begins to disentangle itselfThe place always apprehends to some body of the mother...
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:19:00 PST

Back to Where One Should Not Go

We have our for your downloading pleasure, our latest MP3 single: "Back to Where One Should Not Go" on our My Space page. This, like the other MP3 singles we've posted for your enjoyment, comes from ...
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 05:21:00 PST

Celebrate with US: Ten Years of the Freshest Dead Air!

It seems that everybody on the planet should know by now, but then things don't always go that way in the real world, so here's a reminder that we're playing TONIGHT at the 13th Annual Olympia Experim...
Posted by Dead Air Fresheners on Sat, 23 Jun 2007 04:46:00 PST