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Plastic Crimewave otherwise known as Steve Kraków, is a Chicago

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...

-based illustrator

Illustrator

An Illustrator is a narrative artist who specializes in enhancing writing by providing a visual representation that corresponds to the content of the associated text...

and writer

Writer

A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....

, avant-garde

Avant-garde

Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....

musician, music historian and impresario

Impresario

An impresario is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays or operas; analogous to a film producer in filmmaking, television production and an angel investor in business...

. He is the editor

Editor in chief

An editor-in-chief is a publication's primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task...

of Drag City

Drag City (record label)

Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...

-published magazine Galactic Zoo Dossier, eponymous frontman for Plastic Crimewave Sound, founder of the Million Tongues Festival

Million Tongues Festival

Million Tongues Festival is a Chicago based music festival organized by artist, writer, and musician, Plastic Crimewave. The festival showcases national and international folk, experimental and "cult" musicians from the '60s, '70s, '80s and beyond...

, and Vision Celestial Guitarkestra. He writes and illustrates the Secret History of Chicago Music newspaper column in the Chicago Reader and co-hosts WGN-AM

WGN (AM)

WGN is a radio station in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It is the only radio station owned by the Tribune Company, which also owns the flagship television station WGN-TV, the Chicago Tribune newspaper and Chicago magazine locally. WGN's transmitter is located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois...

's Secret History of Chicago Music series. He runs Drag City

Drag City (record label)

imprint label, Galactic Zoo Disk.

Biography

Crimewave was born in Chicago

Chicago

, Illinois

Illinois

Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...

and raised in Des Plaines and Hoffman Estates, Illinois

Illinois

. As a child, Kraków took an interest in comics

Comics

Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

such as Doctor Strange

Doctor Strange

Doctor Stephen Strange is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was co-created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Steve Ditko, and first appeared in Strange Tales #110 ....

, Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat

Krazy Kat is an American comic strip created by cartoonist George Herriman, published daily in newspapers between 1913 and 1944. It first appeared in the New York Evening Journal, whose owner, William Randolph Hearst, was a major booster for the strip throughout its run...

and Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and animator.A prolific artist, McCay's pioneering early animated films far outshone the work of his contemporaries, and set a standard followed by Walt Disney and others in later decades...

's "Little Nemo

Little Nemo

Little Nemo is the main fictional character in a series of weekly comic strips by Winsor McCay that appeared in the New York Herald and William Randolph Hearst's New York American newspapers from October 15, 1905 – April 23, 1911 and April 30, 1911 – July 26, 1914; respectively.The...

." Showing artistic promise, he began priming for a comics

Comics

career

Career

Career is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person's "course or progress through life ". It is usually considered to pertain to remunerative work ....

in early adolescence.
While enrolled at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a large public research-intensive university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system...

, Crimewave discovered Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved worldwide success with their progressive and psychedelic rock music. Their work is marked by the use of philosophical lyrics, sonic experimentation, innovative album art, and elaborate live shows. Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially...

's "Interstellar Overdrive

Interstellar Overdrive

"Interstellar Overdrive" is a psychedelic composition written by Pink Floyd in 1966, which appears on their 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn at almost ten minutes in length. An earlier, longer recording, 16:52, can be heard on the soundtrack to the film Tonite Let's All Make Love in...

" 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...

group, Hawkwind

Hawkwind

Hawkwind are an English rock band, one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. They are also a noted precursor to punk rock and now are considered a link between the hippie and punk cultures....

, and began drawing and designing concert posters. His comics background and rapidly burgeoning preoccupation with psychedelic

Psychedelic

The term psychedelic is derived from the Greek words ψυχή and δηλοῦν , translating to "soul-manifesting". A psychedelic experience is characterized by the striking perception of aspects of one's mind previously unknown, or by the creative exuberance of the mind liberated from its ostensibly...

culture led to the first issue of Galactic Zoo Dossier magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

. His alias, Plastic Crimewave, pays homage to Canadian psychedelic band, Plastic Cloud, Daredevil

Daredevil (Marvel Comics)

Daredevil is a fictional character, a superhero in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and artist Bill Everett, with an unspecified amount of input from Jack Kirby, and first appeared in Daredevil #1 .Living in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood...

villain Crimewave, and post-Tea Set Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd

incarnation, The Pink Floyd Sound.

Career

Crimewave has been called a modern guru

Guru

A guru is one who is regarded as having great knowledge, wisdom, and authority in a certain area, and who uses it to guide others . Other forms of manifestation of this principle can include parents, school teachers, non-human objects and even one's own intellectual discipline, if the...

of psychedelic art

Psychedelic art

Psychedelic art is any kind of visual artwork inspired by psychedelic experiences induced by drugs such as LSD, mescaline, and psilocybin. The word "psychedelic" "mind manifesting". By that definition all artistic efforts to depict the inner world of the psyche may be considered "psychedelic"...

, music

Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music covers a range of popular music styles and genres, which are inspired by or influenced by psychedelic culture and which attempt to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs. It emerged during the mid 1960s among folk rock and blues-rock bands in the...

and culture

Culture

Culture is a term that has many different inter-related meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions...

of the 1960s

1960s

The 1960s was the decade that started on January 1, 1960, and ended on December 31, 1969. It was the seventh decade of the 20th century.The 1960s term also refers to an era more often called The Sixties, denoting the complex of inter-related cultural and political trends across the globe...

and '70s, as well as a "freelance mind-wizard". Regarding his artwork and music, British musician and musicologist Julian Cope

Julian Cope

Julian Cope is a British rock musician, author, antiquary, musicologist, poet and cultural commentator...

has called Crimewave, among other things, "a Futuretro freak", while Crimewave himself says he pulls inspiration from the "vibrationally bizarre.".

Galactic Zoo Dossier

Originating in 1995, Galactic Zoo Dossier is a magazine hand-drawn by Plastic Crimewave, and currently published by independent label Drag City

Drag City (record label)

. The magazine, often called a "psychedelic

Psychedelic

bible

Bible

The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...

" is highly regarded for its extensive coverage of psychedelic arcana

Psychedelic art

and historically champions esoteric, or "cult"

Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a specific area of pop culture. A film, book, band, or video game, among other things, will be said to have a cult following when it has a small but very passionate fan base...

musicians, as well as misunderstood mainstream

Mainstream

Mainstream is, generally, the common current thought of the majority. However, the mainstream is far from cohesive; rather the concept is often considered a cultural construct....

artists of the '60s and '70s. Actual cult

Cult

The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre. The word originally denoted a system of ritual practices...

musicians, Ya Ho Wha 13

Ya Ho Wha 13

Founded in 1973 in the Los Angeles area, Ya Ho Wha 13, otherwise known Yahowha 13 is a psychedelic rock band fronted by Father Yod, spiritual leader of a religious cult/commune called the Source Family. Ya Ho Wha without the vowels and spaces reduces to YHWH, the tetragrammaton...

, have also been featured. Past contributors include Michael Karoli

Michael Karoli

Michael Karoli was a German guitarist, violinist and composer. He was a founding member of the influential krautrock band Can....

, The Bevis Frond

The Bevis Frond

The Bevis Frond is a British musical group whose range covers hard edge to melancholy vintage indie rock to poetic, "classic-rock" songcraft with a thick Walthamstow accent. Nick Saloman is the band's frontman and songwriter...

, Devendra Banhart

Devendra Banhart

Devendra Obi Banhart is a singer-songwriter and visual artist. Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and was raised by his mother in Venezuela, until he moved to California as a teenager. He began to study at the San Francisco Art Institute in 1998, but dropped out to perform music in Europe, San...

and other notable musicians and writers. The magazine takes its name from the Kingdom Come album.

Secret History of Chicago Music

The Secret History of Chicago Music is Crimewave's hand-lettered and illustrated newspaper column that appears in the Chicago Reader. It covers "pivotal Chicago musicians that somehow have not gotten their just dues," and is a semimonthly feature in the newspaper. The column runs in coordination with WGN

WGN (AM)

's Secret History of Chicago Music segment on The Nick Digilio Show
Nick Digilio
Nick Digilio is a movie critic and radio personality. He is the host of an award-winning radio program on WGN Radio in Chicago, and is a frequent fill-in host for WGN.-Life:...

, in which Crimewave takes listener phone calls related to the featured musician. On occasion, the featured musicians will call in.

Other

Crimewave has written or currently writes for Arthur Magazine, Stop Smiling, Roctober, Time Out Chicago, Seattle's The Red Telephone, Big City Rhythm and Blues Magazine and podcasts for Anthology Recordings

Anthology Recordings

Anthology Recordings is an all digital reissue label, providing an online outlet for rare and out-of-print music of all eras, genres and cultures...

. He has given lectures at Stop Smiling headquarters.

Plastic Crimewave Sound

Crimewave's band, Plastic Crimewave Sound, is a psychedelic acid punk band based in Chicago

Chicago

. They have toured with Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple

Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. is a Japanese psychedelic band, the core of which formed in 1995. The band is led by guitarist Kawabata Makoto and early in their career featured many musicians, but by 2004 the line-up had coalesced with only a few core members and frequent guest...

, Comets on Fire

Comets on Fire

Comets on Fire was an American noise rock band from Santa Cruz, California. The band was formed in 1999 by guitarist and vocalist Ethan Miller and longtime friend bassist Ben Flashman, who were seeking to create rhythmically and sonically intense music that paid no attention to categorizations.-...

, Oneida

Oneida (band)

Oneida is a rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Their influences include psychedelic rock, krautrock, electronic, noise rock, and minimalism, but the overall structure and intent of their music cannot be easily traced to any of these styles...

, The Ponys, Gris Gris, Marble Sheep and others, have played at the Terrastock

Terrastock

Terrastock is a music festival organised periodically by Phil McMullen, formerly editor of the Ptolemaic Terrascope and since 2005 the publisher of the Terrascope Online website. The event typically features independent bands playing psychedelic rock....

festival and international festivals. The band has been compared to Chrome

Chrome (band)

Chrome was an experimental rock group founded in San Francisco, California in 1976.Chrome took part of their inspiration for their rough and sometimes chaotic music from proto punk pioneers like The Stooges. The sound of the group was often coarse and featured heavy elements of feedback and...

, Can

Can (band)

Can was an experimental rock band formed in Cologne, West Germany in 1968. Later labeled as one of the first "krautrock" groups, they transcended mainstream influences and incorporated strong minimalist and world music elements into their often psychedelic music.Can constructed their music largely...

, Yo Ho Wha 13, Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth

Sonic Youth is an American alternative rock band from New York City, formed in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Steve Shelley , and Mark Ibold .In their early career, Sonic Youth was associated with the No Wave art and music scene in New York City...

, Hawkwind

Hawkwind

and has a cult following.

Million Tongues Festival

Crimewave curates the celebrated Million Tongues Festival in Chicago. The annual music festival includes international folk artists, experimental and underground, often featuring "cult" artists from the '60s, '70s and '80s. Now in its fifth year, the fest has seen performances by Bert Jansch

Bert Jansch

Herbert "Bert" Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter...

, Peter Walker

Peter Walker

Peter Walker may refer to:* Peter Walker, Baron Walker of Worcester, British politician* Peter Walker , American landscape architect* Peter Walker , the name of two members of a Scottish brewing family, and their two companies...

, Michael Chapman

Michael Chapman

Michael Chapman may refer to:* Mike Chapman , record producer* Michael Chapman * Michael Chapman * Michael Chapman...

, LSD March

LSD March

LSD March is a Japanese psychedelic rock group, based in the city of Himeji. It is led by singer and guitarist Shinsuke Michishita. The group is named after a track by krautrock group Guru Guru. Michishita has also played with Magura Mozart and Doodles....

, Michael Yonkers

Michael Yonkers

Michael Yonkers is an American rock musician from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.His most well known work is a psychedelic rock record from 1968 called Microminiature Love, which was released on vinyl by De Stijl records in 2002, and later Sub Pop, who released it on CD in July...

, Simon Finn

Simon Finn

Simon Finn is an English psych folk musician.Finn was born in 1951 in Surrey, moved to London in 1967, where his first performance was opening for Al Stewart at the Marquee Club in Soho. He released his Pass the Distance LP in 1970, which in later years attained legendary status as it was so hard...

and Terry Reid

Terry Reid

Terry Reid is an English rock vocalist and guitarist. He has performed with high profile musicians, as a supporting act, a session musician, and sideman.- History :...

, among others. Crimewave took the festival name from a line in Clive's Original Band's, "Song of Ages."

Vision Celestial Guitarkestra

Inspired by experimental '60s music ensemble Scratch Orchestra

Scratch Orchestra

The Scratch Orchestra was an experimental musical ensemble founded in the spring of 1969 by Cornelius Cardew, Michael Parsons and Howard Skempton....

, free-jazz musician Alan Silva

Alan Silva

Alan Silva is an American free jazz double bassist and keyboard player.-Biography:...

's Celestial Communication Orchestra and Glenn Branca

Glenn Branca

Glenn Branca is an American avant-garde composer and guitarist known for his use of volume, alternative guitar tunings, repetition, droning, and the harmonic series. In 2008 he was awarded an unrestricted grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.-Beginnings: 1960s and early 1970s:Branca...

's guitar symphonies, Crimewave has organized five "Guitarkestras," featuring an orchestra of up to 100 seasoned and novice volunteer guitarists. It has been called an "art-freak happening" and "overwhelming sonic assault". Crimewave loosely conducts the performances, typically encouraging the guitar

Guitar

The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

orchestra

Orchestra

An orchestra is a sizable instrumental ensemble that contains sections of string, brass, woodwind, and percussion instruments. The term orchestra derives from the Greek ορχήστρα, the name for the area in front of an ancient Greek stage reserved for the Greek chorus...

to play in the key

Key (music)

In music theory, the term key is used in many different and sometimes contradictory ways. A common use is to speak of music as being "in" a specific key, such as in the key of C major or in the key of F-sharp. Sometimes the terms "major" or "minor" are appended, as in the key of A minor or in the...

of E

E (musical note)

E or mi is the third note of the solfège.When calculated in equal temperament with a reference of A above middle C as 440 Hz, the frequency of Middle E is approximately 329.628 Hz. See pitch for a discussion of historical variations in frequency.-Designation by octave:...

. Crimewave says E

E (musical note)

is "the closest chord

Chord (music)

A chord in music is any harmonic set of two–three or more notes that is heard as if sounding simultaneously. These need not actually be played together: arpeggios and broken chords may for many practical and theoretical purposes be understood as chords...

to 'Om

Om is a sacred syllable of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.OM and similar may also refer to:-Music:* Om , a stoner metal band* Om , a 1965 album* OM , a 2006 album* Om...

'".

Galactic Zoo Disk

Crimewave runs the Galactic Zoo Disk imprint label under Drag City

Drag City (record label)

, which has reissued JT IV, The George-Edwards Group, Ryan Trevor, Michael Yonkers, and Spur.

Personal collection

Crimewave is a noted collector of vintage

Vintage

Vintage, in wine-making, is the process of picking grapes and creating the finished product . A vintage wine is one made from grapes that were all, or primarily, grown and harvested in a single specified year. In certain wines, it can denote quality, as in Port wine, where Port houses make and...

pop culture paraphernalia

Paraphernalia

In modern usage, the word paraphernalia most commonly refers to apparatus, equipment, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity as in, "Beth is such an avid sports fan that her walls are covered with baseball paraphernalia"....

. His apartment has been called a "personal museum", with over 7,000 LPs, 30,000 comics

Comics

, around 2,000 45

Gramophone record

A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

s, a 1967 Seeburg

Seeburg Corporation

Seeburg was an American design and manufacturing company of automated musical equipment, such as orchestrions, jukeboxes, and vending equipment.- History :...

jukebox

Jukebox

A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that will play a patron's selection from self-contained media...

, action figures, advertisements and psychedelic concert posters

Psychedelic art

. He describes the decor as having "a ’60s-freakout vibe."

Visual art exhibitions

"UBS 12x12: Steve Krakow," The Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is a contemporary art museum near Water Tower Place in downtown Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The museum, which was established in 1967, is one of the world's largest contemporary art venues...

, Chicago 2010
"Art of Touring" group show, Johalla Projects, Chicago 2010
"Cake White Palace" group show, Texas Ballroom, Chicago 2004
"Pathway To Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra" group show, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago 2006
"Harry Smith Remixed" group show, Alt Gallery, Newcastle, England 2007
"Frock 'N' Roll" group show, Local Project Gallery, New York 2007
"Invoking" group show, Bucketrider Gallery, Chicago 2007

Albums

2002 Grade Ceased 45 (Captain Spazz)
2003 Michael Yonkers/Plastic Crimewave Sound split 45 (Captain Spazz)
2003 Splendor Mystic Solis-Heavy Acid Blowout tensions (Galactic Zoo Disk/Eclipse)
2004 Plastic Crimewave Sound-Flashing Open (Eclipse/Rocket)
2005 Plastic Crimewave Sound/Oneida
Oneida (band)
Oneida is a rock band from Brooklyn, New York. Their influences include psychedelic rock, krautrock, electronic, noise rock, and minimalism, but the overall structure and intent of their music cannot be easily traced to any of these styles...

split 12" (Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar is an indie rock record label based in Bloomington, Indiana.-History:In 1996, in Charlottesville, Virginia, friends of Darius Van Arman who performed in a band under the moniker The Curious Digit had just recorded a new album, but they were signed to no label...

/Brah)
2006 Plastic Crimewave Sound-No Wonderland (Eclipse/Prophase)
2006 Plastic Crimewave Solo—Howling Light 45 (Loud Devices)
2008 Plastic Crimewave Sound-S/T (Eclipse/Prophase)
2008 Plastic Crimewave Sound-Painted Shadows (A Silent Place)
2009 Plastic Crimewave Sound/Michael Yonkers--"Bleed Out" (Spiral Staircase)
2009 Plastic Crimewave Sound "Shockwave Rider" 45 (Hozac)

Compilations

2000 The Unshown—Wigs on Fire! B-52s tribute (Nihilist Records)
2001 The Unshown—Galactic Zoo Dossier #5 compilation (Drag City
Drag City (record label)
Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...

)
2002 Plastic Crimewave Sound—ABBA Tribute (Nihilist Records)
2003 Utopia Carcrash/Moleculad/Plastic Crimewave—Galactic Zoo Compendium compilation (Drag City
Drag City (record label)
Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...

)
2004 Plastic Crimewave Sound—Million Tongues (Bastet)
2004 Plastic Crimewave Sound—Galactic Zoo Dossier #6 compilation (Drag City
Drag City (record label)
Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...

)
2005 Plastic Crimewave Sound—In Demons In! 10" (Rocket)
2007 Plastic Crimewave Sound—Phosphene River (Jamnation)
2007 Plastic Crimewave Sound—Galactic Zoo Dossier #7 compilation (Drag City
Drag City (record label)
Drag City is a Chicago-based independent record label. It was established with a Royal Trux release in 1990 in Chicago, Illinois by Dan Koretzky and Dan Osborn.Drag City specializes in experimental indie rock acts...

)
2008 Plastic Crimewave Sound--WFMU
WFMU
WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, broadcasting at 91.1 MHz FM, presenting a freeform radio format...

Free Music Archive Sampler #2 (WFMU
WFMU
WFMU is a listener-supported, independent community radio station headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States, broadcasting at 91.1 MHz FM, presenting a freeform radio format...

)

Underground

1996 Phantom Channel-Flexible Viking Supernova (Jagged Time Lapse)
1996 Plastic Crimewave—Broken Back Opera (Jagged Time Lapse)
1997 King Hell II—S/T (Jagged Time Lapse)
1997 Utopia Carcrash-S/T (Jagged Time Lapse)
1998 Utopia Carcrash-Drowned World EP (Jagged Time Lapse)
1998 Utopia Carcrash-Breakdown Communication EP (Jagged Time Lapse)
1998 Utopia Carcrash-Double Live Mega Blistering Acid Freak-Out Pile-Up (No Label)
1999 The Unshown-S/T (No Label)
1999 The Unshown-SuperAcidNoiseCult Sessions (Jagged Time Lapse)
2000 Plastic Crimewave—Projection (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2000 Plastic Crimewave—Gradually Darkens (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2000 Plastic Crimewave, Utopia Carcrash, King Hell II—La Musica Box Set (La Musica)
2001 Plastic Crimewave and the Fake—Live at the Hideout (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2002 Plastic Crimewave and the Fake—Rising Anger EP (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2002 Plastic Crimewave, Utopia Carcrash, King Hell II—Freakout Revisted Box Set (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2003 Plastic Crimewave Sound—Live Boombox Explosions (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2004 Black Hole—S/T (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2004 Plastic Crimewave—Blinding Pink Sun (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2004 Plastic Crimewave—Live in Osaka (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2005 Plastic Crimewave and Heady Friends—Collapserations (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2005 Plastic Crimewave and Heady Friends—Collapserations II (Galactic Zoo Disk)
2006 Plastic Crimewave—Black Rust Loops-(Galactic Zoo Disk)
2006 Plastic Crimewave—Burning Phoenix Rise-(Galactic Zoo Disk)
2008 Plastic Crimewave Sound—Dark Debris-(Galactic Zoo Disk)
2008 Plastic Crimewave Expanse-Le Sorciere (Apollolaan)
2009 Sir Plastic Crimewave-Bait/Switch Banjo Ragas/Rags (As Above So Below)
2009 Plastic Crimewave Sound/Djin Aquarian-Live Yod Devotions (PlusTapes)
2009 Plastic Crimewave-Fire In The Whole (Apollolaan)
2010 Sir Plastic Crimewave-From the Depths (Sloow Tapes)
2010 Sir Plastic Crimewave-String/Soul/Eye (Kendra Steiner Editions)

External links

Plastic Crimewave Website
Official Plastic Crimewave Myspace
Plastic Crimewave's Galactic Zoo Dossier at Drag City
Galactic Zoo Disk at Drag City
Official Plastic Crimewave Sound Myspace
[ Plastic Crimewave Sound at Allmusic.com]

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