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About Me

Effacer is john mcCaig. He has been producing electronic music since 1992. With work released on his own panicRecordings and the ever growing Audiobulb Records, his sounds are treated like physical event in time, to be constructed and deconstructed like sculpture.
||| A Study In Multiband Granular Synthesis ||| OUT NOW.
EP + MP4 video. check it out at A U D I O B U L B
Luv011 - Summer Gate. Sun Made of Gave. OUT NOW. Featuring a new effacer track "MurMur"
Go download it.. Now
Exhibition ..3 Out NOW! pick it up on
1 -- soft note: taken from the Effacer EP The song was created in 97 using csound, specificly the PVOC and SNDWARP functions.
2 -- atoll, grand mal: created for Kikapu's giant ambient compilation Wein, Weib und Gesang , it was created using my patented "dish washing machine dither"
3 -- RHIC: created using Symbolic Sounds Kyma system (an ambient composers dream), using a walcom tablet to draw in real time various time stretching techniques.
More music is avail at , the Effacer website , or at the Audiobulb shop
Exhibition ..3 Out NOW! pick it up on
effacer video from 1997:
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/9/2006
Band Website: www.effacer.net
Band Members: john mcCaig and Kyma
Influences: Tangerine Dream
Vangelis
Vladislav Delay
Brian Eno
Thomas Köner
Mira Calix
Robert Fripp
Bill Laswell
Pete Namlook

Sounds Like: Aakon Keetreh Abstract Audio Systems Accurst Adiemus Aes Dana Ahasverus Air Alien Ambient Galaxy Alio Die Amythestium Aphex Twin Ashtorath Atom Heart Aural Planet Autechre Autumn Sara AyersWally Badarou Biosphere Alexandre Bischof Richard Bone Michael Brook Harold Budd Ray ButtigiegCoil Chillage People Cluster Balm DAC Crowell Holger Czukay beingDave Jonsen Deathprod De Facto Stuart Dempster Deuter diatonis DJ Spooky Kurt Doles Dracodacikus dreamSTATE Dub Trees Catherine Duc Dungeons of Darkness Dyr 6Eluvium Empathi Entropica Enigma Brian EnoFarfield Florianz, Matthew Tim Floyd Forrest Fang FTSG Future Sound of London / Amorphous Androgynous Robert Fripp Don FalconeGaop Gas Peter Gabriel Global Communication Jeff Greinke general fuzzBeaumont Hannant Jon Hassell David Helpling Higher Intelligence AgencyTetsu InoueKarl Jenkins JuJu Eyeballs JunkDuster JunkieloverKarl Sanders kneeL Luke Koyle KLFLand Daniel Lanois Bill Laswell Lustmord Lebzul LVXUSMaeror Tri Magic Sound Fabric Main Makyo Mariae Nascenti Matotumba Chris Meloche Moby AKA Voodoo Child Morgenstern A Murder of Angels Mystical SunPete Namlook Jan Nemecek Neptune Towers Loren Nerell Noise Button Northaunt Not Your Average Hippy Nuspirit Helsinki NuminaOmicron One Umbrella The Orb Orbital Oto tussinspace.com O Yuki Conjugate OambientonePalancar Parasme Plastikman Puff DragonRaison D'être Radio Chong Ching Radio Massacre International Radiohead Redshift Rothko David Reeves Robert Rich Steve Roach Tom RecchionErik Satie Klaus Schulze Jonn Serrie Adham Shaikh Shinjuku Thief Shite Shpongle Shulman Sephiroth Sophia Solar Quest Spacetime Continuum / Jonah Sharp Spiritual E Wolfram Spyra / Der Spyra Stars of the Lid Saul Stokes Tim Story Stratus Stray Theories Sun Electric David Sylvian The Synthetic Dream Foundation System 6Terre Thaemlitz The Fireman TimeShard Amon Tobin Troum True Colour Of Blood TUU The Devil In The Design Twilight RitualUndiscovered Moons Of SaturnVangelis Vidna Obmana Violet Vision Edgard Varèse VuotareWaveform Transmission (Rod Modell and Chris Troy, not Jeff Mills) Wavestar (with John Dyson) Windy & Carl Jah Wobble WoobSusumu YokotaZoviet France Zilent Zpott
Record Label: audiobulb
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

new work

working on some new work.. aiming for DEC 08.HUSH HUSH
Posted by on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:59:00 GMT

Out Now: A Study In Multiband Granular Synthesis

My new release "A Study In Multiband Granular Synthesis" EP + MP4 videoAvailable here > digital download via audiobulbThe hypnotic Rob Tyler video is available to view at A U D I O B U L BVisit www.vc...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:48:00 GMT

Luv011 - Summer Gate

an awesome new compilation out now, on luv sound, features a new track by effacer (me), entitled MurMurits an amazing compilation, featuring some of the most mind blowing sounds i've heard in a long t...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:42:00 GMT

Exhibition .3 Out NOW!

a new compilation featuring my track "want of breath" is out now.u can pick it up on ye old iTunes music store.click me, please click me
Posted by on Wed, 17 May 2006 07:58:00 GMT

Songs up!

myspace finally got my songs up.FYI and shit
Posted by on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:40:00 GMT

one of these days, myspace will get my tunes up

yup, one of these days.in the mean time, listen to a live performance i did back in 2001 on KEXP radio in seattle:Effacer Live on KEXP (download) or (stream)
Posted by on Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:38:00 GMT