Lateduster is an American instrumental music group from Minneapolis that was most active from 1999-2003, with reunion shows in 2005 and 2011. The band's core members were James "JG" Everest, Martin Dosh, Bryan Olson, and Andrew Broder. Lateduster was considered a Minneapolis "supergroup" because all four members were active in other successful bands and projects. They were also considered pioneering[1] in their combination of live and electronic instrumentation, and their unconventional use of instruments such as turntables, looping pedals, and fender rhodes electric piano in the "post-rock" genre. Lateduster composed and performed instrumental mood music with a combination of live drums, guitars, turntables, fender rhodes, and keys run through a myriad of effects and live looping pedals. After three years of performing and recording, and self-releasing 5 CDs and a DVD, the band went on hiatus in Spring 2003 after Broder left the group and Olson moved to San Francisco. The various members then went on to be part of several other music projects, Fog (Ninja Tune), Hymie's Basement (Lex), Dosh (anticon.), Neotropic (Mush Records), Sans Le Systeme [Firetrunk], The Cloak Ox, Andrew Bird, Roma di Luna, Vicious Vicious, and the Catalyst dance company. In 2003, Merck Records discovered Lateduster’s music, and decided to do the first major label release of their music in fall 2004 as Easy Pieces, a compilation of previously released material.
Formed in Minneapolis in 1999, Lateduster was originally an instrumental sextet called Cropduster, with a symmetrical lineup of two guitars, two full drum kits and two DJs on 4 turntables. By the beginning of 2000, they had pared themselves down to a four-piece and began honing their sound into intricately arranged chamber music. In 2000, they recorded and released the first of three "handmade" EPs, independently released on their own Firetrunk Records label. In 2002, the best tracks from these early recordings were remastered and compiled on a new full-length record, Lateduster, that included two newly recorded songs. During the summer and fall of 2002 the band completed a new album entitled Five Easy Pieces, released November 2002, also on Firetrunk. Over the winter of 2002-2003, the band continued work on its third album, a new original soundtrack to the 1925 silent German Expressionist film Variete, which they had performed live at the Sound Unseen Film Festival in 2001. In April 2003, Lateduster released its first DVD, a collaborative project with Alaska-born choreographer Emily Johnson and her contemporary dance company Catalyst, entitled Plain Old Andrea, With a Gun.[2]
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