Solenoid

Real Name:David Chandler
Profile:Solenoid is a Portland (Oregon-USA) based electronic music composer who has explored a variety of genres. Informed by electro, new wave, jazz, disco, noise, metal, classical, and avant garde music, his releases do have common elements when seen as a whole. Tracks usually feature playful and funky percussion and melodic progressions with some signature warbly synthesizer sounds. Solenoid's music develops a kind of baroque 'maximalism' (where most electro/techno/house/disco defaults toward minimalism) much in the vein of early Detroit techno (1st wave)
Titles make references to film, sci-fi, technology, literature, synthesizers and musicology. 90's releases lean toward shuffling, skittering funk with 80's influences, occasionally exploring non-4/4 rhythms. The first 3 albums contain work compiled from a period several years earlier and are often identified with the first generation of US "IDM" artists, though the spirit of experimentation is more akin to free jazz and prog-rock ideas of time signature and melodic structure rather than sonic experimentation. An early issue of Grooves called Solenoid "the American answer to Mouse On Mars".
As part of a free-improv duo, Office Products, and as Mr. Pharmacist, his experimentation of purely sonic ideas is explored under other project names. Post-2002 releases do reintroduce some 'difficult' noise/experimental elements while simultaneously going for more straightforward house/techno sounds.
Much of the percussion programming of Solenoid's music contains detailed accents that suggests a live drummmer. Solenoid is known to use a drum pad when playing live or dj'ing.
URLs:http://www.syncopated.net/solenoid
Aliases:David Chandler, DJ Brokenwindow, Mr. Pharmacist
In Groups:Office Products
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Releases:
Solenoid #3 (Cass, Album, C60)   Pharmacy 1996
Solenoid 4 (Cass, Album, C60)   Pharmacy 1997
Solenoid 5 (CDr, Album)   Pharmacy 1998
Untitled (12", Spl)   Outward Music Company 1998
Narcissistic (12")   Hiao Hiao Hiao Records 2001
Reversesender (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Outward Music Company 2001
Services Rendered ◄ (2 versions)   Emanate Records 2001
The Narcissist (CD)   Hiao Hiao Hiao Records 2001
Bike / Ingrid (7", Ltd, Whi)   Audraglint Recordings 2002
The Lotus Eater (12")   Orac Records 2002
Splendid EP (12", EP)   Zod 2004
Night Beach / Sam Clam's Disco (12")   Community Library 2006
Supernature (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Orac Records 2006
Remixes:
Amalgamation (CD, Album) Sleepwalking (Cerrone'... Component Records 2000
Font Translation Errors (CD, Album) Hey, Ash Where Are We?... Mad Monkey Records 2000
Untitled (12", Spl) Idiolect (Solenoid Remix) Outward Music Company 2000
Evil Against Evil (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Marsh Salve Boat Recon... Someoddpilot Records ... 2002
Caller ID (CD, Album, Dig) Hey Ash (Atlas' Anthem... Hymen Records 2003
Super Vamp (12") Super Vamp (Solenoid Mix) Orac Records 2004
Appears On:
Cottage Industries (CD) Flawchecker Neo Ouija 2000
Dinosaur Days (12")   Community Library 2005
World House (12")   Community Library 2005
Tracks Appear On:
ōmco (2x12", Comp, Tra) Ocean Floor Crawler Outward Music Company 1997
ōmco (CD, Comp) Lucky 13, Ocean Floor ... Outward Music Company 1997
Emanated ◄ (2 versions) Pillow Speaker, Time F Emanate Records 1998
Endpoint Compilation 01 (CD) M-Box, Cowberd II Endpoint 1999
Endpoint Compilation 01 (2xLP) Cowherd II Endpoint 1999
Alt. Frequencies 4 (CD) Elsemoon Worm Interface 2000
American Breakbeat: Electronic Music From USA And Canada (2xCD) Adult707_5 Klangkrieg 2000
Cottage Industries (CD) Flawchecker Neo Ouija 2000
Orac Presents Ciao! America, Vol. 1 (12") The Altruist Orac Records 2001
International Combat (LP) Grey Pavilion Citizens Paralleles 2002
Shaman Efforts: Dedicated To All Pioneers (CD) Complox1 Obtain Freedom 2002
We Bore (CDr) Spruce Toast And Jam Recordings 2002
Das Drehmoment...Dreht Weiter (LP, Ltd) Indie Zombie Das Drehmoment 2003
Timing Incorrect (CD, Mixed) Igwaltz Sublime Records (3) 2003
Toast & Jam Nine (CDr) Genclone 4, Bumpity Br... Toast And Jam Recordings 2003
Zod Sampler Volume 2 (CD, Promo, Smplr) Botany Zod 2003
Disco Undead (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Suspiriorum Device 2004
Slip's Remote6277 (Smells Like True Spirit) (File, MP3, Ltd) Borneo (Slip Rework) Sweet Smelling Surfaces 2004
Snowdrop (CD) Oracid Horse Fueradeserie! 2005
The Rhythm Method (File, MP3, 192) Purple Biscuit Experimedia 2006
Unofficial Releases:
Komplizieren Herz (CDr, Mixed, Ltd) Mentat Picnic zen .v. phi 2008
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