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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.    

Mister Failure are a 3 piece hailing from the unknown nether regions of eastern PA, a country enclave of sorts known for its Pennsylvanian Dutch and Amish heritage, dairy farms, as well as its absolute boredom.

Mister Failure is a subsidiary of Mr. Profit Industries. Test subjects that have been mandated to record an anthology's worth of music in as short a time as possible while situated in the heart of hex country. Three moronic minds, waves of neuroses, beats slowly drifting off the mark. Just one whiff and yer hooked. These are anthems for the dulled age. If you can't use it, flush it.

Members of Mr Failure have arisen from the embers of some big name bands in the Industry we fail to acknowledge at this juncture.

	
"NYMPH, from New York, sounds as if it’s from everywhere and nowhere. This group’s first, self-titled album, on the Social Registry label, begins with the sound of Matty McDermott’s hollow-bodied electric guitar, playing curled and emphatic Malian riffs with amplifier settings that sound like Neil Young’s, loud and tough and warm and hugely echoing. Then the record stops and starts through drum rolls and cymbal crashes and rattled bells, with theatrical yelping, wordless vocals by Eri Shoji. And that — give or take a clarinet, a shakuhachi and an electric bass — is pretty much the template for the whole intuitive and sensible, contemplative and bone-rattling album. It knows what it’s doing, and doesn’t need to make it too clear."
- Ben Ratliff, NEW YORK TIMES

Sounds from White Denim, record label releasing interesting music since 2003

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