Kenneth James Gibson


Kenneth James Gibson is a musician, record producer, composer, singer, songwriter and a founding member of Bell Gardens, [|Furry Things], Eight Frozen Modules, and #Musical projects|pendics.shuffle.

Career

Kenneth James Gibson was born in Canada, grew up in El Paso, Texas and currently lives in Los Angeles, California. He first learned how to play guitar on his fathers acoustic and got his first 4-track recorder at age 19. Gibson founded the 1990s noise rock band Furry Things, who released most of its material on King Coffey's Trance Syndicate / Touch and Go Records imprint.
He has also released music that spans across many genres under aliases such as #Musical projects|pendics.shuffle, Eight Frozen Modules, dubLoner, [|Reverse Commuter], and Hiss & Buzz. He founded the electronic music record label Adjunct Audio in early 2005 with friend Konstantin Gabbro, through Kompakt records.
Gibson along with Brian McBride of the drone-based ambient music duo Stars of the Lid, started the band Bell Gardens in 2009. Through the music of Bell Gardens, the two explore the realms of Americana, chamber pop, folk, and psychedelic pop. He also recently collaborated with Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb on a track called Whispers In on his latest Reverse Commuter album titled Exposure. In April 2016, Gibson released his first full ambient album under his real name titled The Evening Falls on Kompakt Records and returned for a second album in March, 2018 titled In The Fields Of Nothing.
In 2017, Gibson started the band Toler Gibson with Gavin Toler Of The Winter Flowers. According to his website the group makes music that fits under the “Cosmic American Music” banner.
In 2021 Gibson started a new record label called Meadows Heavy Recorders. This is also the name of his studio in Idyllwild, Ca. 2022 saw the release of his 3rd ambient and experimental album titled Groundskeeping under his given name on his new label. Later in 2022 he also released a guitar based drone album titled Ssih Mountain. 2023 saw the release of the remix album Further Translations featuring remixes by artists such as Jack Dangers, Scanner, Brian McBride, Christopher Willits, and others.
In 2024 Gibson collaborated with saxophonist Paul Carman on an album titled Murals For Immersion which was released on Important Records. Paul Carman is most known for being the saxophonist on recordings and tours with Frank Zappa in what Zappa called The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life
He has directed music videos for artists such as Francis Harris and Dance Spirit as well as his own projects Reverse Commuter and Bell Gardens.

Musical projects

Furry Things

Kenneth played guitar, sang, and produced the 1990s Noise Pop band Furry Things. The line up also consisted of Cathy Shive, Charlie Woodburn, and Chris Michaels. Furry Things released the majority of its material on King Coffey's Trance Syndicate / Touch and Go Records imprint. The band formed in Austin, Texas in 1993 and moved to Los Angeles, California in the summer of 1997.
Kenneth produced the band's first LP titled The Big Saturday Illusion along with engineer Adam Wiltzie. Kenneth and Brad Laner produced the second and last LP titled Moments Away which was released in 1998. The band also released two 7" singles and two EPs as well as being featured on The Kahanek Incident: Volume 2, which was a remix trade between Furry Things and Electric Company.

Bell Gardens

Bell Gardens is the musical collaboration between Kenneth and Brian McBride of Stars Of The Lid. Through the music of Bell Gardens, they explore different styles such as chamber pop, folk rock, psychedelic pop, and Americana. Their first EP Hangups Need Company was released on their own imprint Failed Better in 2010. Southern Records released their first LP Full Sundown Assembly in late 2012. Rocket Girl released the band's second LP titled Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions in October, 2014.

Eight Frozen Modules

Eight Frozen Modules is one of Gibson's experimental electronic music projects. Eight Frozen Modules' recorded material is a mix of IDM, Techno, Dub, electro, breakcore, dancehall, and Noise. The project started as a side project to the now defunct noise-pop band Furry Things and like Furry Things, was also released on King Coffey's Trance Syndicate label. As 8FM, he has released music on labels such as Phthalo, Planet Mu, Orthlorng Musork, Tigerbeat 6, City Slang, Shockout, Mutant Sniper, Mille Plateaux, Warp, In Vitro Records, Lo Recordings and Tino Corp to name a few.

apendics.shuffle

pendics.shuffle is Gibson's main electronic music alias. Under this alias he creates a mix of minimal house, techno, micro house, and experimental electronic dance music. pendics.shuffle has released music on many labels such as Trapez, Orac, Adjunct Audio, Mo's Ferry Prod., Lick My Deck, We Are, Leftroom, Sunset Diskos and more. As apendics.shuffle, Gibson has collaborated with and remixed a number of other artists such Mr. C of The Shamen, Mikael Stavöstrand, Mark "Blakkat" Bell, Damian Lazarus, Brad Laner, and Vladislav Delay.

dubLoner

dubLoner is a dub project from Gibson. Dubloner's output ranges from deep and spacious dub techno and house to more rootsy dirty dub experiments. He has, as Dubloner, remixed and collaborated artists such as Meat Beat Manifesto, Jack Dangers, Isaac Haile Selassie, Kool Keith, and Markus Nikolai of Perlon Records.

Reverse Commuter

The first released Reverse Commuter track, The Organ That Killed Me, was released on a compilation titled Grand Slang on City Slang in 2000. There was a gap of no releases till 2003 with The Direction EP on Hallucination Recordings. Outside of a string of remixes and compilation tracks, there wasn't another official release till 2014 with a new album titled Exposure on DJ Three's Hallucienda label along with a 12" EP titled Vinyl Exposure One including a Doc Martin remix. Exposure featured tracks with vocals by Gibson, Douglas McCarthy, and his wife Kelly Johnston-Gibson.

Adjunct Audio

Kenneth along with Konstantin Gabbro founded the electronic music record label Adjunct Audio in 2005. Adjunct releases a range of styles from deep house and minimal techno to dub and ambient. Producers such as John Tejada, Bruno Pronsato, Dapayk, Blakkat, Kit Clayton, Mathias Schaffhäuser, DubLoner, Sutekh, Dilo, Mikael Stavostrand, Mr. C, and Apendics.shuffle | pendics.shuffle himself have worked with the label. Adjunct is distributed by Kompakt records.

Music for television and film

Gibson composes music for TV and Film. According to IMDB he has music in shows such as Shameless, The Simpsons, The Last O.G., Weeds, Californication, and Saturday Night Live and films such as The Best and The Brightest, Drones, Don Peyote, and 7 Minutes. Gibson appeared as himself as music producer on an episode of VH1's MC Serch hosted show Miss Rap Supreme.

Discography

with Bell Gardens

Albums
  • Full Sundown Assembly
  • Slow Dawns For Lost Conclusions
Singles & EPs
  • Hangups Need Company
  • Take Us Away
Compilation appearances
  • Various – International Connection Collection
  • Various - The Kitty Comp
  • Various - Rocket Girl 20

    with Furry Things

Albums
  • The Big Saturday Illusion
  • Moments Away
Singles & EPs
  • Hide / Your Two One
  • Still California / Car Songs Unlimited
  • Headphones
  • Frequent Lunacy
Compilation appearances
  • Various – Cinco Años!
  • Various – Green Light GO!
  • Various – Angelfood Electronics Vol Two
  • Various – Letters To Aliens

    as Kenneth James Gibson

Albums
  • Delusional Tales And Non-Silence
  • The Evening Falls
  • In The Fields Of Nothing
  • Groundskeeping
  • Ssih Mountain
  • Further Translations
Singles & EPs
  • Animals Tonight
  • Something In The Way
  • Something In The Way Remixes
  • Far From Home
Compilation appearances
  • Various - Ambient Rounds Vol. 2
  • Various - Pop Ambient 2017
  • Various - Pop Ambient 2018
  • Various - Velvet Desert Music Vol. 1

    as Kenneth James Gibson And Paul Carman

Albums
  • Murals For Immersion

    as Eight Frozen Modules

Albums
  • The Confused Designer
  • The Confused Electrician
  • Random Activities and Broken Sunsets
  • Thought Process Disorder
  • The Abduction of Barry
  • Crumbling And Responding
  • Clinically Yours
Singles & EPs
  • Daydream Nightmare
  • Collages From The Inside of a Circuit Board Gone Wild
  • Eight Frozen Modules / Mochipet – $ Vol. 11
  • DJ, Riddim & Source
  • Ghislain Poirier / Eight Frozen Modules – Be Strong / Dem Nuh Know Me
  • Rejected Resident
  • Deleted Chemistry
Compilation appearances
  • Various – Wow! & Flutter
  • Various – Musikexpress 14 – EFA
  • Various – Altered States of America
  • Various – Shockout
  • Various – Igloo Trax Vol. 1
  • Various – Drop Name Records Vol. 1
  • Various – Clicks & Cuts 4
  • Various – Crimson
  • Various – Autonomous Addicts
  • Various – Morrow Choral Orchestra
  • Surgeon – This Is For You Shits
Selected remixes
  • Bruno Pronsato – Silver City
  • Meat Beat Manifesto – God O.D.

    as apendics.shuffle

Albums
  • Helicopter Hearts
  • Aware Sequence Found Life
  • Aware Sequence Found Life
Singles & EPs
  • Smooth Hair
  • The Lavender Neglect
  • The Diligent Puzzle
  • Real People
  • Paradroid / pendics.shuffle – Unclassified Computer Funk
  • Saw Saw Soup
  • Framed And Defamed
  • Eloquent Milk
  • Rampant Passenger
  • pendics.shuffle & Mikael Stavöstrand – Looking For Me
  • Group Trivia
  • pendics.shuffle & Altiply – Lonely Payback
  • She's Got Moves
  • Re-Fried Monument
  • Hot Guardian & The Freestyle Formula
  • Sammy Baker Davis Jr.
  • Paradroid / pendics.shuffle – Unclassified Computer Funk 2
  • pendics.shuffle & Mikael Stavöstrand – Take Me Higher
  • You Got My Harmony
  • Elegance & Malice
  • Mas Lines
  • Mass Reduction
  • Elegance & Malice Reworked
  • pendics.shuffle & Dilo – Vaquero
  • Restless And Disturbed, Songs of Mania
  • I See The Morning Time
  • pendics.shuffle + Mr. C – Something Strange
  • pendics.shuffle + Mr. C – Something Strange Part 2
  • Mikael Stavöstrand & pendics.shuffle – Midnight Machines
  • pendics.shuffle & Dilo – Wonderfully Drifting
  • pendics.shuffle Ft. Blakkat – Heavy Burdens High
  • pendics.shuffle Ft. Bryan Black – Fall From Grace
Compilation appearances
  • Various – Wighnomy Brothers | Robag Wruhme* – Remikks Potpourri
  • Various – Bits To Phono Mix
  • Various – Unhappy Anniversary V.2
  • Various – Summership Vol. 1
  • Various – Do You Copy?
  • Various – Best of 2007 – Minimal Edition
  • Various – Communication Defines Culture Volume 2
  • Various – From Minimal To Techno 2
  • Various – Mo's Ferry Flipside Compilation
  • Various – For Every Moment of Triumph: Volume One
  • Various – For Every Moment Of Triumph: Volume Two
  • Various – Mo's Ferry Great Cinema Show
  • Various – Selected Remixes: Volume One Compilation
  • Various – Warenkorb #6
  • Various – For Every Moment Of Triumph: Volume Three
Selected remixes
  • Mochipet – Disco Donkey
  • Drumcell – Brain Wreck
  • Le K – Ok Daddy
  • Evan Marc – Iris
  • Mathias Schaffhäuser – Gott Ist Tot
  • Dilo & Gurtz – Ave Fenix
  • Adultnapper – Fluorescent
  • Brad Laner – From Inside
  • Vladislav Delay As Sistol – Haaska
  • Damian Lazarus / pendics.shuffle – Smoke The Monster Out – Club Versions
  • Akiko Kiyama – Queen Momo
  • Miro Pajic – Full of Emptiness
  • Joint Custody – Lights & Buttons