Brad Laner


Brad Laner is an American musician and record producer best known for his work with the shoegaze band Medicine, which he founded and led.
Prior to Medicine, he was involved in the post-punk outfit Savage Republic, which, according to Pitchfork Media, foreshadowed many ideas later explored in the post-rock genre.

Career

Laner founded his first band, Debt of Nature, at the age of 15 in 1981. He founded Steaming Coils, an experimental avant-rock band.
Laner joined Savage Republic as a percussionist and a keyboard player, and took part in recording two of its albums.
In 1990 he founded shoegaze-noise pop band called Medicine, promoting a do-it-yourself sound. In 1992 Medicine released its debut album, Shot Forth Self Living. In 1994 the band contributed one track to the soundtrack of the movie The Crow and appeared in the movie itself. The band broke up in 1995, briefly reuniting in 2003 as a duo.
In 1995 he started his solo project Electric Company, which was devoted to IDM, glitch, and avant-garde electronics with some elements of ambient and drone. As Electric Company, he released ten full-length albums in nine years. The same year, he also founded psychedelic supergroup Lusk with the members of Tool and Failure, with whom he released one album, Free Mars. It received a Grammy Award nomination.
In 1996, he collaborated with Dallas-based musical collective Vas Deferens Organization on the album Transcontinental Conspiracy. Laner co-wrote and co-produced the album; several Mercury Rev members were also involved in the recording and producing process. They collaborated again in 1999, this time under his Electric Company moniker, on the album More Pelvis Wick for the Baloney Boners.
In 2007, Laner released his first album under his own name, Neighbor Singing, with the input of Thom Monahan. He then followed it up in 2010 with his second solo release, Natural Selections.

Discography

with Debt of Nature

Order: Spoil The Entire State Robin Diamond's Lungs
cassette releasesPets Have Fears Too Robin Diamond's Lungs Idiot Stick Pets Have Fears Two Food Music 1981 Vol. 1 Debt of Nature Order: Spoil The Entire State
  • "San Salvador Day"
  • "Salt Meadows"
  • "Come Flying"
  • "Spring Training"
  • "Small Silver Car"
  • "The Helix Of Repair"
compilation appearancesFeeble Efforts Mighty Feeble Life is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record L.A. Mantra Live at the Trance Port Phantom Takes Give Me That Dog Penis Popsicle Sex and Bestiality Perpetual State of Oracular Dream
  • "L'Incoronazione"

with Earth Dies Burning

  • ''Songs From The Valley of the Bored Teenager 1981-84''

with Stahlbau

cassette releasesTodlich Verungluckt
  • ''Die Macht Der Reichen''

with Pilgrim State

  • ''Effective Spiritual Warfare''

with Severed Head in a Bag

cassette releases
  • "Live"
  • "Delayed Implantation"

with Steaming Coils

Never Creak The Tarkington Table Breaded Never Were Studio Cassette
compilation appearancesBad Alchemy #9 LAFMS-The Lowest Form of Music Box Set LAFMS-Unboxed
note: the song "Blathering Hemispheres" from the "Never Creak" LP appears on both of the above LAFMS comps credited solely to Rick Potts

with To Nije Sala

  • ''A Bitter Kermit Haven''

with Savage Republic

Jamahiriya Democratique et Populaire de Sauvage Viva La Rock and Roll 7-inch Customs Live in Europe 1988 Box Set
  • ''Procession: An Aural History''

other 1980s releases as Brad Laner

cassette releasesSEP/8363 vols 1-5 Blind Force
compilation appearancesOmniana/Audio Arm 3 cassette magazine L.A. Mantra 2 Neighborhood Rhythms Re Records Quarterly vol. 2 Hollyword cassette

with Medicine

Singles and EPs
  • "Aruca"
  • "5ive"
  • "Never Click"
  • "Sounds Of Medicine"
  • "Time Baby 3"
  • "Off The Vine" Time Baby 2
Compilation appearances

as Electric Company

A Pert Cyclic Omen Electric Company Plays Amnesia Studio City Omakase Exitos Slow Food 62-56 Greatest Hits It's Hard to Be a Baby Creative Playthings 26 Mixes For Love
EPsLive In Concept 10-inch+7-inch The Kahanek Incident New 3-inch CD Greatest Hits Companion 1 Greatest Hits Companion 2
Remixes and compilation appearances Slow Death in the Metronome Factory Dugga Dugga Dugga Knots On-Soluble Words Sadovaja- A Sweet Design Kid606 & Friends vol 1 American Breakbeat Kid606-P.S. You Love Me Cex - Oops I Did It Again Attitude The Cosmic Forces of Mu Tigerbeat6 Inc. Criminal 2 $ Vol.2 $ Vol.6 Marumari The Remixes 45 Seconds Of Lowercase 2 Ellen Allien- Weiss.mix American Breakbeat : Rebuilt Wrong Application And The Beat Goes Off Paws Across America Good Night Stars As Eyes-Loud New Shit Open up and Say...@+%_|^ O Superman Remix Audio Sponge 1 Neighbors Remixing
  • ''Solypsis -Hybrids''

as Amnesia

Cherry Flavor Night Time Lingus
  • ''Love Story / A Pretty Sight''

as Personal Electronics

The Story of Personal Electronics
Compilation appearance
  • ''Blip, Bleep ''

with Vas Deferens Organization

with Kraig Grady

  • ''Music From The Island of Anaphoria''

with Lusk

with Medicine (2002-04 BL duo with Shannon Lee version)

EPs
  • Wet on Wet
  • I Smile To My Eyes
  • As You Do
Remixes and compilation appearances
  • The Faint - Danse Macabre Remixes
  • Themroc - Into the Light
  • Wall of Sound 10th Anniversary
  • Labels Series
  • ''Strictly Dub - Modern Dub Classics''

with North Valley Subconscious Orchestra

  • ''The Right Kind of Nothing''

with the Internal Tulips

  • Mislead into a Field by a Deformed Deer
  • Mellotorn Offline
compilation appearance
  • ''14 Tracks from Planet Mu''

post 2000 solo releases as Brad Laner

  • The Subterranean River Caverns of Los Angeles
  • Neighbor Singing
  • Natural Selections
  • Nearest Suns
  • Micro-Awakenings
  • Music For Beautiful Noise
  • For Magnetic Tape
  • Elephant Heart Plumb
  • Ligaments 01 - 05
  • Dozens of digital-only releases on the Bandcamp platform
Singles and EPs
  • Brad Laner / Joensuu 1685 split 12-inch
  • Highly Morning / Sideshow 7-inch
Remixes & Compilation appearances
  • Neighbors Remixing
  • Flossin-Serpents
  • Triskaidekaphobia 13,000.00 MilliSeconds
  • I'll Be Hometapes For Christmas
  • Shedding - Tear In The Sun Reimagined
  • The Neverending Beginning with Lauren Kinney
  • ''Another Iris - All Tiny Creatures''

Brad Laner guest appearances on other artists' releases

  • Sissy Spacek - Entrance
  • Dan Boeckner - Boeckner!
  • Nervous Gender - Music From Hell
  • Paul B. Cutler - Les Fleurs
  • Falty DL - A Nurse to My Patience
  • Lindsey Buckingham - S/T
  • The Flying Luttenbachers - Imminent Death
  • Autumnfair - Watching The Sky
  • Sissy Spacek - Expanding Antiverse
  • Taleen Kali - Soul Songs
  • Mary Epworth - Elytral
  • Vinyl Williams - Brunei
  • Sissy Spacek - Duration Groups
  • D.D. Dobson - A Halo of Affectation
  • Wild Nothing - Life of Pause
  • Tülips - Doom And Bloom
  • Digital Noise Academy - Synemy
  • M83 - Hurry Up, We're Dreaming
  • Blinker The Star - We Draw Lines
  • The Caribbean - Discontinued Perfume
  • Lauren Kinney - Wail
  • Lauren Kinney - Riddled
  • Christopher Willits - Tiger Flower Circle Sun
  • Blinker The Star w/ Lindsey Buckingham - Catch And Release O.S.T.
  • Christopher Willits - Surf Boundaries
  • Vetiver - To Find Me Gone
  • Brian Eno - Another Day On Earth
  • Caribou - The Milk Of Human Kindness
  • Caribou - Barnowl 12-inch
  • Caribou - Marino DVD
  • μ-ziq - Bilious Paths
  • Kid606 - Down With The Scene
  • Furry Things - Moments Away
  • Blinker The Star - August Everywhere
  • On - Shifting Skin
  • Spectacle -Glow In The Dark Soul
  • Ventilator - Reseda Spleen
  • V3 - Photograph Burns
  • Eenie Meenie EP
  • Vas Deferens Organization - Saturation
  • Patio Collection vol. 2
  • Solid Eye - Electromagnetic Field and Stream of Consciousness
  • The Black Watch - Amphetamines
  • Motor Totemist Guild - Shapuno Zoo
  • Motor Totemist Guild - Homaggio a Futi
  • 17 Pygmies- Welcome
  • 17 Pygmies- Missyfish
  • Fourwaycross - On The Other Hand
  • Fourwaycross - Pendulum
  • What Slender Young Leaders ! 7-inch
  • Blue Daisies - Wilt
  • Gary Kail / Zurich 1916 - Creative Nihilism
  • John Trubee - Beyond Eternity/Lavender Flesh