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KITE OPERATIONS is a New York City rock band, formed in 2003 by former members of Theselah. Joseph Kim and David Yang play guitar and sing. Jie Whoon Kang plays bass. Sung Shin plays drums. The name Kite Operations was chosen for its richness of imagery and metaphorical meaning- the illusion of control one has over one's life, mirrored in the activity of 'flying' a kite while one merely holds onto a thread.
"...could lay claim to lo-fi genius if it wasnt for the fact that it sounds just huge..." - Smother
"... consciousness altering creativity" –babysue/LMNOP
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GOLD MEDALISTS
is "Part Animal Part Machine". Those are the
words scrawled across Jason Jesse's back and a phrase
well suited to describe San Francisco’s Peter
Nguyen AKA The Gold Medalists. Famed as the drummer
monster behind noise/metalheads Total Shutdown and indie-rockers
eE, Nguyen (pronounced Win) is soon releasing his debut
album, The City Lights Us on Fire, to the world, and
woe to those who turn a deaf ear.
“Peter Nguyen is one of the finest drummers
I know and now a fine songwriter. His first collections
of songs only whisper at the enormous potential to come.”
- Yoshi Nakamoto (The Aislers Set)
“Peter Nguyen is the best thing happening
in the Bay Area right now.”
- Sooyoung Park (Seam)
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XYZR_KX
is Jon Monteverde, Chicago-based Chinese-Filipino indie-rock/electro-pop
wunderkind. With this project, Monteverde redefines
the boundaries of the traditional pop song by simultaneously
incorporating hushed vocals, serrated guitars, and chaotic
beats.
"#2 EP of 2006" - WNUR 89.3 FM
"Best of Around Hear 2004" - Illinois
Entertainer
“Enigmatic yet pleasing” –
Giant Robot
”More passion than purity, more brash than
composed, the sound explodes out of the speakers.”
- Grooves Magazine
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KRIS RACER AKA
Kris Narunatvanich, but who wants to be responsible for
that spellcheck?) came to Chicago and left the rest of
the band behind, opting to unplug and become an acoustic,
solo act. But staying true to his punkier roots, Kris
Racer is more Mike Ness than open mic.
"Kris Racer plays sweet acoustic pop, the type
of heartfelt music embraced by sensitive boys with shaky
voices around the world. The obvious musical touchstone
here would be Dashboard Confessional, but Racer mostly
avoids that group's saccharine mewling." - The
Onion AV Club
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JACK
TUNG writes songs
that are precisely composed instrumentals performed
by Jack alone in real-time on an electric guitar, a
drum machine, synthesizers, and a sampler. His moody
aesthetic is equally informed by the exhilarating and
harsh thrash of his youth in the Long Island hardcore
scene, and by the atmospheric film soundtracks absorbed
as a lifelong cinephile. In live performance, Jack uses
no pre-recorded parts and no backing tracks, save for
the spare drum machine patterns which propel his arrangements.
His precise execution and control of multiple layers
of sound is a feat to witness.
“Long Island hardcore veteran Jack Tung has
no fear of playing whatever music he likes… great
range… dreamy soundscapes… he can provide
the soundtrack to just about anything, from aggressive
stuff like skating and fighting to something more emo.”
– Giant Robot
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JIENAN YUAN
is obsessed with
creating electronic soundscapes steeped in emotional isolationism
and internalized melancholy. He has composed the scores
for three award-winning shorts, including ‘Hello
Kitty is Dead’ and the Apple-sponsered Ipod Short
‘Walking Between the Lines’, and contributed
a sound installation project for the 312 Gallery exhibition,
‘100 Cuts’.
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