Transparent Aluminum is Kelly Ockinga.  I make weird electronic music.  I live in Portland, Oregon.  I have songs on compilations by SDMPDX from Portland and Wet Pizza from Denver.  I have several self-released albums as well.  I often play shows around the Pacific Northwest and I am always interested playing more.  Hit me up about shows or anything.

This is what I do instead of playing video games.    

Pop.  Punk.  Noise.

Cassette/Single available at: https://masterbedroom6.bandcamp.com/releases
Animated video for "She Wants My Blood" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JAJHjzwEM8

https://sweetabyss.bandcamp.com/album/jzkl-pancake-of-the-infinite

listen to JZKL - PANCAKE OF THE INFINITE

@sweetabyssmusic

U.S. bookings + inquiries: kiernanlaveaux@gmail.com

ROW booking: alex@biota.agency

Kiernan Laveaux is a connective rhythmic energy conduit & ecstatic beat conductor from the Great Lakes.

A boundless ball of discordant energy, she’s an adventurous spirit - conducting the vibrant forces of our world that are transmitted through the unbridled passion contained within her DJing. 

As a “one-of-a-kind American DJ”, she’s best known for her arcane technical skill, propulsive dancefloor catharsis, & hyper-creative approach behind the decks. 

Originating from within Cleveland's multiversal electronic underground, she materialized through the rhythms of life & her loved ones - inspired by forces of universal chaos, the experimentalism and joy found within midwestern electronic music, & the infamous In Training, Heaven is in You, Disco Paradiso parties manifested by herself & loved ones in Cleveland, she's since embarked on a lifelong journey of channeling binary dissolving phenomena throughout our known universe via her unbridled musical vitality & the multifaceted Sweet Abyss imprint.

The music she plays is all-embracing & expansive, but unified by a restless sense of ecstatic momentum, dissonant euphoria, & kinetic exuberance - all woven together by entrancing pulsations of uninhibited groove & rhythmatic sensation.

Over the past decade, her ethos of community building, passionate autonomy, and transportative psychedelia has grown to encompass the creators of possible worlds everywhere - releasing a vast array of mixes and live recordings available for your listening pleasure, as well  playing iconic & transformative sets at worldwide rave destinations including Freerotation, Draaimolen, WHOLE United Queer Festival, an anarchist bookstore in Ohio, Honcho Campout, Return to the Source, a train car in Wisconsin, a woodworking studio in Oregon, a gas station turned into a restaurant in Texas, Club Toilet in Detroit, Sustain-Release, a USPS shipping container in Virginia, a dub soundsystem club in Poland, and wherever else fun you’d love to have her play next.

“A well-crafted, lo-fi blend of shoegazer psych-rock and jangly indie-pop.” - KEXP
 
“Rough, mischievous, and utterly charming.” - Here Comes the Flood 
 
“[Stars on Fire] creates an adrenaline rush that works on your hips and warms your heart.” -Musiczine 
“Dancing melodies, almost palpable textures...a textural music that drinks from so many different aspects of alternative...converging into the most beautiful form possible.” - Expectador 
“Stuff that’s good for the heart.” - Rockambula  
“A perfect piece of indie pop.” “I don’t know why, but I keep imagining a drunk Lloyd Cole seizing control of Felt for an hour or two. Yeah, it’s actually that good.” - Super World Indie Tunes
 
Blue Skies Above is the debut ep by Seoul-based stars on fire. The band’s sound has been compared to great indie pop bands of the 80s and 90s, including Orange Juice, 14 Iced Bears, and the Pastels, despite not being directly influenced by any of them. 
 
Blue Skies Above was written and recorded in Ulaanbaatar and Seoul and mastered by the Royal Landscaping Society’s Cris Romero at Cherry Sounds in Seville. 
 
Blue Skies Above is out now on Jigsaw Records. 
 
facebook.com/starsablaze
starsonfire.bandcamp.com

1432 R is an independent record label specializing in electronic music. Based in Washington DC.

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