Arctic Hospital
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United States
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DJ
Disc jockey
A disc jockey, also known as DJ, is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, "disc" referred to phonograph records, not the later Compact Discs. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the medium.There are several types of disc jockeys...
and record producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...
. He began DJing industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
and EBM
Electronic body music
Electronic body music or industrial dance is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic dance music...
at age 14, and began producing urban techno
Techno
Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit, Michigan in the United States during the mid to late 1980s. The first recorded use of the word techno, in reference to a genre of music, was in 1988...
on a Macintosh
Macintosh
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using the software sequencer Logic
Logic
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when he was 17. In 2004, Eric Bray received his big break when Narita Records owner Gabe Koch saw him open for seminal techno DJ John Digweed
John Digweed
John Digweed is an English DJ, record producer and acclaimed actor.-Biography:John Digweed began DJing around age 4...
and immediately signed him to his record label. The music of Arctic Hospital is often described as dub
Dub music
Dub is a genre of music which grew out of reggae music in the 1960s, and is commonly considered a subgenre, though it has developed to extend beyond the scope of reggae...
techno.
Side projects
Eric Bray performs in the band SembleSemble
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, playing laptop alongside Steve James (vocals, guitar, piano, mbira
Mbira
In African music, the mbira is a musical instrument that consists of a wooden board to which staggered metal keys have been attached. It is often fitted into a resonator...
, glockenspiel, drums), Beth Perry (vocals, flute, cello, marimba, synth, piano, guitar), Matt Kelly (guitar, violin, percussion, zither, accordion, saw, mbira, laptop/sampler).
Eric Bray also performs in the ambient music
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
group, The World on Higher Downs. He also releases IDM
Intelligent dance music
Intelligent dance music is a term that describes an electronic music genre that emerged in the early 1990s. The genre is influenced by a wide range of musical styles particularly electronic dance music such as Detroit Techno...
under the alias Talve.
Quotes
Albums
- Citystream (Narita, 2006)
- Neon Veils (Lantern, 2008)
- In Chaos (Lantern, 2010)