3kStatic

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3kStatic is an electronica band that currently, as of 2005, records for the dPulse/Sony Music and Ingrooves labels.

The group has released over 190 original tracks on 15 independent CDs, and are in recurring rotation on FM outlets in the USA, Europe, the UK and Africa. They, also, logged in more than 225,000 downloads on the former MP3.com, and were named 2003 Artist of the Year by the Mixdown, a weekly broadcast of WRVU FM in Nashville, Tennessee.

The group's work is featured on the soundtrack of the new season of MTV's Real World, and has also being licensed for some television commercials, as well as some films. Their newest album is Perversion: for Profit; the title track uses audio sampled from the 1965 propaganda film Perversion for Profit, an anti-pornography diatribe hosted by George Putnam.

The band has been said to "Fuse an eclectic, Dadaist soundscape drawing on the influence of electronica pioneers", and their work has been described as "anarchist disco" and "post-industrial house". Their singles include Drumbeat Litany, All The Way Alive, and The Music.