Paik is a post-rock

Post-rock

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/space rock

Space rock

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 outfit originally from Toledo

Toledo, Ohio

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, United States

United States

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, currently living in Detroit, Michigan

Detroit, Michigan

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, United States

United States

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, that includes Rob Smith and Ryan Pritts. Bassist Ali Clegg left the band in 2005, and has since been replaced by San Francisco native Anthony Petrovic (E-Zee-Tiger). Ali Clegg currently has a self-titled project, La Contessa, and another band The Spanish Castles. Terms used when describing Paik's music includes post-rock

Post-rock

Post-rock is a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock...

, shoegaze, and space rock

Space rock

Space rock is a subgenre of rock music; the term originally referred to a group of early, mostly British, 1970s progressive and psychedelic rock bands such as Hawkwind and Pink Floyd, characterised by slow, lengthy instrumental passages dominated by electric organs, synthesizers, experimental...

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Background

Formed in 1997, the band is erroneously thought to be named after veteran Korean

Korean people

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 artist Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

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, but is actually named after an old-fashioned term for a swift punch to the gut. The band has toured in support of indie rock

Indie rock

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ers Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

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 as well as Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks. They have shared stages with Windy & Carl

Windy & Carl

-Overview:Cited as "A leading light of the Michigan space-rock scene" by Allmusic, the minimalist group formed in 1993 around the core husband-and-wife duo of guitarist Carl Hultgren and bassist/singer Windy Weber...

.

Rob Smith primarily plays a Fender Jaguar

Fender Jaguar

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 as the lead instrument, which is largely responsible for the band's sound. Drummer Ryan Pritts's incorporation of a timpani

Timpani

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 in his drum set since Paik's third album, 2002's The Orson Fader, also contributes to the band's sound.

Albums

• Hugo Strange (Beyonder, 1998)
• Corridors (Beyonder, 2001)
• The Orson Fader (Clairecords, 2002)
• Crickets and Fireflies (split album with Kinski
  Kinski (band)
  Kinski is a rock band from Seattle, Washington, in the United States. They formed in 1998 in a pub, when bartender and drummer Dave Weeks overheard a conversation between two customers, Chris Martin and Lucy Atkinson about analog recording. Weeks joined the discussion, and they found they also...
  
   and Surface of Eceon
  Surface of Eceon
  Surface of Eceon , is a supergroup of sorts whose music has been described as ambient space rock. This unit, which has a penchant for the phantasmagoric, includes members of from Landing and Yume Bitsu, two notable psychedelic rock groups.-Current line-up:* Dick Baldwin: guitar;* Adam Forkner:...
  
  , Music Fellowship, 2004)
• Satin Black (Strange Attractors Audio House, 2004)
• Monster of the Absolute (Strange Attractors Audio House, 2006)