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Kevin Drumm

Kevin Drumm, born in 1970 and raised near Chicago, is a guitarist and electronic musician who has moved from the quietest improvisation to some of the harshest noise on record. He began with prepared tabletop guitar, distorting the instrument with magnets, binder clips, chains, a violin bow and even toenail clippers, and his self-titled debut of 1997 is a landmark of that approach.

Impish tyrant
A cd repress of a cassette that was released on the Spite label in 2004. Guitar and electronics. Processed guitar riffs and screeching electronics.
Alku Tape
... probably don’t need to explain this one in too much detail ; it’s a kevin drumm tape (of scattered, alternatingly minimal & harsh guitar pieces recalling his earliest recorded/released work) ; the second “pressing” after the first (of something l…
Imperial horizon
RESTOCKED! Truly an outstanding new album, Imperial Horizon examines sustained tone in greater depth than KEVIN DRUMM’s previous Hospital Productions benchmark album, Imperial Distortion, stretching out minimalism to unreached heights of serene ambie…
All Are Guests In The House Of The Lord
With so damn many records pouring out, there are precious few artists who strain against sagging shelves and actually merit the “must hear” designation. One of them for me is Kevin Drumm. Widely known “guitarist” and relentless disassembler of techni…
Duo
Recorded direct to DAT at Hanko Loft, Chicago, April 22 and 23, 1998. Thanks to Brent Gutzeit, Todd Carter, Gentle Giant Records, Box media.
Den
Recorded in concert at Gallery Den, Tokyo on April 5, 2000. Thanks to Masae Tanabe, Gallery Den.
Cases
Musique concrete realized 1999/2000 in Chicago and Mainz. Released in a 6-panel digisleeve.
Gauntlet
Kevin drumm (guitar and noise) and Daniel Menche (organ and noise) recorded Fall of 2006 in Chicago at Uggae's Porta-toilet studio. Mixed and mastered at Stereophonic Mastering in Portland, Oregon. One organ, one guitar, several fuzz boxes and two hi…
Particles and smears
Grainy flickering, strangulated buzzing, blurred sonic shadows and harsh stridulations. Chicagoan Drumm continues to rethink the electric guitar in terms that suggest the microscopic life of ponds, and he deploys electronics along similar lines. Cana…
Comedy
Original 1st editon, Comedy is Drumm’s third album, recorded over two years ago. It floated around in a provisional version, entitled Organ, for quite a while and caused a genuine bidding war between labels, at least five of them, which caused our Ke…
Land of lurches
Land Of Lurches is the new release from Chicago’s Kevin Drumm. Two sidelong tracks of diarrheic hailstorms. Land Of Lurches is maximalist diarrhea created in the spirit of true Heavy Metal. That is... it’s ugly, loud, disturbing, courageous, triumpha…
6 Standing Desert / Hasn't (1-5)
Edition of 500 copies on clear transparent vinyl.