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Ativin is an experimental post-rock band from Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington, Indiana
Bloomington is a city in and the county seat of Monroe County in the southern region of the U.S. state of Indiana. The population was 80,405 at the 2010 census....

. Chris Carothers and Dan Burton
Dan Burton
Danny "Dan" Lee Burton is the U.S. Representative for , and previously the , serving since 1983. He is a member of the Republican Party....

 of Early Day Miners
Early Day Miners
Early Day Miners are a band from southern Indiana, United States who released records on the Bloomington, Indiana based label Secretly Canadian. In September 2009 the band had released seven full-length records....

 make up their core, with a revolving door of drummers.

Biography

Formed in Bloomington, Indiana in the winter of 1994 after Chris Carothers (guitar) and Rory Leitch (drums) met at Indiana University. Guitarist Dan Burton joined the group the following spring, cementing the band's loud, instrumental rock sound. Steve Albini
Steve Albini
Steven Frank Albini is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, audio engineer and music journalist. He was a member of Big Black, Rapeman, and Flour, and is currently a member of Shellac...

 and Carl Saff recorded the band's debut EP, Pills vs. Planes, which was released in December 1996. The spring of 1997 saw the release of the Modern Gang Reader/Larkin single, the first of several releases for Secretly Canadian Records. The band worked with Andy Bryant at King Size on German Water, its debut album for Secretly Canadian, releasing it in March 1998. A return to Albini's Chicago studio, Electrical Audio, yielded the four-song EP Summing The Approach, which was released in the fall of 1998. Taking a break while Carothers moved out west and Burton worked on Early Day Miners, Ativin reconvened in 2001 with drummer Kevin Duneman, to record Interiors, which added sparse, minimalist vocals to their sound. Interiors was released in early 2002 to critical acclaim. Continuing on in the same vein, Ativin recorded Night Mute in both Bloomington and Portland, using drummers Mark Rice (John Wilkes Booze) and Joey Ficken (The Swords Project) for release in early 2004.

Discography

  • Pills Versus Planes
    Pills vs. Planes
    The Pills Versus Planes EP is the debut release from Bloomington, Indiana-based instrumental group, Ativin.-Track listing:# "I Know One-Hundred Things" – 5:30# "King's Ship" – 5:15# "Mass" – 4:20# "Metallic Boy" – 1:17# "Meditational Flaws" – 7:23...

    (1996)
  • Modern Gang Reader/ Larkin - 7" (Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana. It was started in 1996 by Chris and Ben Swanson, Eric Weddle, and Jonathan Cargill. Their first release was a re-issue of an album by June Panic...

    , 1997)
  • German Water
    German Water
    German Water is the second release, and first full-length album from Bloomington, Indiana-based instrumental rock band, Ativin.-Track listing:# "Thirteen Ovens" – 4:00# "Fortune Telling Fish" – 3:25# "Stations" – 6:28# "Back at the Lab" – 4:18...

    (Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana. It was started in 1996 by Chris and Ben Swanson, Eric Weddle, and Jonathan Cargill. Their first release was a re-issue of an album by June Panic...

    , 1999)
  • Summing the Approach
    Summing the Approach
    The Summing the Approach EP is the second Extended Play release from Bloomington, Indiana-based instrumental rock group, Ativin.-Track listing:# "Cy" – 5:38# "Riding and Roaming" – 4:26# "Summing the Approach" – 6:59# "My Eyes of Yours" – 4:43...

    (Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana. It was started in 1996 by Chris and Ben Swanson, Eric Weddle, and Jonathan Cargill. Their first release was a re-issue of an album by June Panic...

    , 1999)
  • Interiors
    Interiors (ativin)
    Interiors is the fourth release and second full-length album from Bloomington, Indiana-based instrumental rock group, Ativin. This album strayed from Ativin's typical instrument line-up of guitar, baritone guitar and drums by adding strings on certain tracks, sometimes very prominently.-Track...

    (Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana. It was started in 1996 by Chris and Ben Swanson, Eric Weddle, and Jonathan Cargill. Their first release was a re-issue of an album by June Panic...

    , 2002)
  • Night Mute
    Night Mute
    Night Mute is the third album from the Bloomington, Indiana based instrumental rock band Ativin.-Track listing:# "Night Terror" – 2:20# "Saigon Sleeps" – 3:48# "Concentrate" – 2:01# "Endless" – 1:54# "Double Back" – 3:00# "The Game" – 3:57...

    (Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian
    Secretly Canadian is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana. It was started in 1996 by Chris and Ben Swanson, Eric Weddle, and Jonathan Cargill. Their first release was a re-issue of an album by June Panic...

    , 2004)

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