Kim Cascone

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Kim Cascone is an American composer of electronic music, who is best known for his releases in the ambient genre on his own record company, Silent Records. Cascone studied electronic music at Berklee College of Music, Boston, and started his career as assistant musical supervisor to director David Lynch on Twin Peaks and Wild At Heart. In the mid-80s he left Hollywood, to pursue his own solo career in San Fransisco. He grounded Silent Records in 1986, and went on to release several albums under the moniker PGR (an abbreviation for Poison Gas Research). He has been using various aliases over the years, but he eventually became best known under the moniker Heavenly Music Corporation, a name taken from a track on the record No Pussyfooting by Brian Eno and Robert Fripp. Cascone has since released four full albums under this name from 1993 to 1996.

In 1996 he left the Silent label to work for a period as a sound engineer. He returned to making music in 1999, and has since been releasing records using his own name, most on his new record company, Anechoic (named after his last Heavenly Music Corporation release), which he established in 2000.