Aidan Girt
Aidan Girt is a Canadian drummer for the Montreal-based post-rock collectives Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Exhaust. He is also a solo electronic artist under the names OSB, 1-Speed Bike, and Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike and continues to record in Some Became Hollow Tubes.
Career
In 1994, Girt co-founded Godspeed You! Black Emperor.Girt, along with Gordon Krieger and Mike Zabitsky, formed the group Exhaust; they performed in Montreal for a short time and released a single in 1996. In 1998, the three released a self-titled album and, in 2001, a studio album, Enregistreur.
Girt played drums as a guest musician on the debut album of A Silver Mt. Zion in 2000.
As 1-Speed Bike, Girt released a number of solo albums and EPs, including El Gallito in 2004.
In 2019, Girt began releasing music as a duo with guitarist Eric Quach under the name Some Became Hollow Tubes.
Discography
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- F♯A♯∞
- Slow Riot for New Zero Kanada
- Lift Your [Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven]
- Yanqui U.X.O.
- 'Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!
- Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
- Luciferian Towers
- G_d's Pee at State's End!
- ''No Title as of 13 [February 2024 28,340 Dead]''
Exhaust
- 230596 7" cassette
- Exhaust
- Enregistreur
- ''Grenadilla Splinters''
A Silver Mt. Zion
- ''He Has Left [Us Alone but Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner of Our Rooms...]''
1-Speed Bike
- Droopy Butt Begone!
- I'm a Pretzel on a Stealth Mission to Kill the President
- Limp Penis
- El Gallito
- Klootzak Keizer
- Someone Told Me Life Gets Easier in Your 50s
- A Swimmer in the Ocean Is Not Afraid of the Rain
- Pashto Translator Needed
- This Country is Torture
- ''Robbery''
Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike
- Untitled 12"
- ''Looks Like Velvet, Smells Like Pee''
Some Became Hollow Tubes
- In 1988 I Thought This Shit Would Never Change
- ''Keep it in the Ground''