3kStatic

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3kStatic is an electronica collective founded in 1999. As of 2007, 3kStatic records for the dPulse/Sony Music and Ingrooves labels.

The group has released over 200 original tracks on 18 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 various television commercials and independent films. Their 2004 album Perversion: for Profit; uses audio sampled from the 1965 propaganda film Perversion for Profit, an anti-pornography diatribe hosted by George Putnam and also garnered favorable reviews epecially in Germany, where the band's often aggressive political comment was seen as a throwback to the earlier days of post-punk electronic and industrial music.

In addition to the ardently activist statements that have become a centerpiece of the band's output, the band has been said to fuse an "eclectic, Dadaist soundscape" into their sound, which incorporates elements of art rock, trip hop, funk and house into an often densely produced collage reminiscent of dada art. Due to this clash of sounds and activist stance, their work has been described as "anarchist disco" and "post-industrial house".

Although their recordings could be considered album-oriented electronica, their college and independent radio singles include Drumbeat Litany, All The Way Alive, Shattered and The Music, which charted #1 on various underground dance charts in late 2004.

In 2006, the band embarked on a more vigorous series of live engagements, appearing at the legendary New York rock venue The Knitting Factory, electronic music festival events in Michigan and Tennessee and other dates. Members of the band also began hosting and programming the weekly electronic music broadcast CounterprogamFM aired on The Electric Circus program of the Columbus, Ohio-based radio network RadioU.

The dPulse Recordings label has the release of a 'best of' compilation titled Other Ideals: The Best of 3kStatic 1999-2007) March 27, 2007. The compilation follows up the band's 2006 release, which charted in the Top 25 on the iTunes Music Store in Europe for ten consecutive weeks, including #1 (Dance) on the iTunes (Spain) chart.

The band's recent European album release 'The Great Republic' (Cargo Records Germany) was selected as one of the label's Top 10 releases of 2006, and a recent single was selected for inclusion on the 'Songs of The Times' website curated by protest rock legend Neil Young.

3kStatic will embark on an aggressive live schedule in 2007, with March dates announced for Winter Music Conference 2007 (Remix Hotel) and club dates in the New York City and Philadelphia areas.