Kenneth James Gibson

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Kenneth James Gibson (born 8 October 1973), better known as apendics.shuffle is an experimental, electronic, and dance music artist who has been releasing records since 1994. He founded the minimal techno record label Adjunct Records in early 2005 with friend Konstantin Gabbro, through Kompakt records. Gibson also releases music under the aliases Eight Frozen Modules, dubLoner, The Premature Wig, Men In Slippers, Cascabel Gentz, KJ Gibbs, Reverse Commuter, Bal Cath, Electronic Music Composer, and Hiss & Buzz (with Jack Dangers of Meat Beat Manifesto). Gibson also founded the 1990s noise pop band Furry Things, who released most of its material on King Coffey's (of The Butthole Surfers) label Trance Syndicate / Touch and Go Records imprint.

apendics.shuffle ("[a]pendics.shuffle") is Gibson's main electronic music alias. Under this alias he creates a mix of minimal house and techno, micro house, and experimental electronic dance music. Apendics.shuffle has released music on many labels such as Orac, Adjunct Records, Mo's Ferry Prod., Lick My Deck, We Are, Leftroom, Sunset Diskos and more.

DubLoner is a dub project from Gibson. Dubloner's output ranges from deep and spacious dub techno and house to more rootsy dirty dub experiments. He has, as Dubloner, remixed and collaborated artists such as Meat Beat Manifesto, Jack Dangers (a duo of dubLoner and Jack Dangers called Hiss & Buzz), Isaac Haile Selassie and Markus Nikolai.

Eight Frozen Modules (also known as 8FM) is another of Gibson's experimental electronic music projects. Eight Frozen Modules' recorded material is a mix of IDM, techno, dub, electro, breakcore, dancehall, and noise. The project started as a side project to the now defunct noise-pop band Furry Things which Gibson started with Cathy Shive in 1992 and was released on King Coffey's Trance Syndicate label (who also released the first 8FM material). As 8FM, he has released music on labels such as Phthalo, Planet Mu, Orthlorng Musork, Tigerbeat 6, City Slang, Shockout, Mutant Sniper, Mille Plateaux, Warp, In Vitro Records, Lo Recordings and Tino Corp to name a few.

Gibson is also known for musical outings under the aliases Cascabel Gentz, Furry Things, KJ Gibbs, Men In Slippers, The Premature Wig, Kenneth James G., Electronic Music Composer, and Reverse Commuter.

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