Kubo are the Dublin based electronic duo of Aidan Casserly (Empire State HUman) and Brian O’Malley (PolyDROID), who produce Darkwave/minimal electronic music on vintage analogue synthesizers.

Having first recorded electronic music together under the name ManSeries, this initial partnership, which was minimal in its form and structure, began whilst both were still at school. Since then the friends have explored difference genres and arenas, collaborating again in various forms over the years, including the very early days of Empire State Human as well as a film scores for the Brian O'Malley directed short film 'Screwback'.

Inspired by the resurgence and renewed interest in this early, minimal form of electronic music the two have once again come together to record as ‘KuBO’. Brian's 'Gary Numan' and 'Vangelis' inspired dark, cinematic synth layering's, under pinned by pulsating bass synth lines and tight drum programming are the perfect counterfoil to the angelic voice of Aidan Casserly, who’s long time fascination with 'David Bowie', ‘Jacques Brel’ and ‘Kraftwerk’ make for a meeting of the minds that goes back to the roots of the music the pair made as teenagers.

Fueled by a fascination with Science Fiction, Avant-Garde Cinema, alienation and...Vampires, those original inspirations are once again at the centre of these recordings, which form a synthetic landscape of brooding, melodic, minimal electronica, with the focus on a pure and deliberate exploration of synthetic sound and evocative vocal melody.

Kubo was launched in March 2013.

Discography:

2016:

'Subway Subconscious' EP
Cassette/Deluxe Cassette (SOLD OUT)
Manufactured Desire Records (Spain/Irl)
https://electricitysupplyboard.bandcamp.com/album/subway-subconscious-ep

'Night Waker'
Scraping Beats Compilation
CD/Download
Cold Beats Records (Spain)
https://coldbeatsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/scraping-beats-compilation


2015: 

'I Dream Electric'
'Exhibit 1' Compilation
Digital
Peripheral Minimal Records (UK)

'An Oddity'
Loudmouth Collective Compilation 7.
Digital

'Strange'
Digital - Self Release
Tribute to Steve Strange, in said of Terrence Higgins Trust Wales.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/strange-single/id1029039656

2014:

'This Desolation'
7” Vinyl. 
Peripheral Minimal Records (UK)
https://peripheralminimal.bandcamp.com/album/this-desolation

2013:

'I Dream Electric'
Cassette Single. 
Vocoder Tapes (UK)
(OUT OF PRINT)

LIVE:

Phase One Festival 2014: https://vimeo.com/92856318

Supporting LEGEND, Voodoo Lounge 2015: https://vimeo.com/118409322

Reviews:

http://www.thethinwall.co.uk/kubo-this-desolation/
https://santasangremagazine.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/kubo-this-desolation-englishpolish/
http://www.chaindlk.com/news/peripheral-minimal-kubo-fist-7-out/
http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=7574
http://noisebrigade.net/?p=3483

Facebook - www.facebook.com/Kubo.Music

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kubo-music

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