Supercollider

Supercollider is a Los Angeles duo that made two records, Supercollider and Dual, for the Emigre label in the early 90s. Vocalist/guitarist Michael Horton and drummer Phillip Haut "stripped alternative rock down to its bare essentials, clashing electric guitar and drums against samples [which] began by taking bits of their own playing and forming pulses to drive the music." After gaining little traction, the duo had quietly gone on hiatus by the mid-90s, but remained friends, and have recently overseen the remastering of their two albums, now available digitally on Bandcamp. Meanwhile, live performances and the release of archival recordings are being discussed, as well as the possibility of new recordings. "Writing songs that fused minimalism and post-punk with sampling and sequencers, and lyrics inspired by modernist poetry, Supercollider weren’t just unique in that era of Southern California, dominated by the final wave of hair metal and the homegrown hip-hop explosion, but almost anywhere in the U.S. [...] Horton credits artists like Sonic Youth, Joy Division, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich — as well as visual artists like Ellsworth Kelly and Donald Judd — as inspirations; the resulting combination of stark, austere guitar patterns and his serene but still emotional singing reflects those influences, as does [his] willful defiance of verse/chorus/verse song structure." ---Ned Raggett, writing for Bandcamp