About.
In the past twelve years, two time GRAMMY® Award candidates (Best Electronic/Dance Album) 3kStatic have charted two #1 albums and over 20 Top 25 tracks with releases on labels including Sony BMG Germany, Nightshade, Cargo Records Germany, INgrooves, dPulse, Sick Watona, TVR and others. Active on the experimental dance underground in the age of digital music, 3kStatic was the second singing
to powerhouse label INgrooves, whose roster now includes Crystal Method, Tila Tequila, Thievery Corporation, Thomas Dolby, John Digweed, among others. To date, 3kStatic has tallied well over 1 million paid downloads (all formats)*, and the band's official website @ 3kStatic.com has registered over 3 million hits since June 2006. 3kStatic has recorded and collaborated with artists from across the music spectrum, including: Vile Evils (Graham Crabb & Adam Mole of Pop Will Eat Itself); Parthenon Huxley (ELO Part II / The Orchestra); George Clinton & The P-Funk All Stars; Kevin Max (dcTalk); Professor Griff (Public Enemy); Randy Garcia; Annette Strean of Venus Hum; Shelley Harland; David Manion (Kansas, Paul Rodgers); Robert Bond (Bo Diddley, Les McCann); Jan Pulsford (Cyndi Lauper, Thompson Twins); Joy Askew (Peter Gabriel, Joe Jackson); Virgil Howe (Yes, Future Sound of London, Pet Shop Boys); Nort (Cabaret Voltaire (live), Hula); Rom DiPrisco (Skinny Puppy, Richard 'Humpty' Vission) and Greg X. Volz (Petra), among others. Cabaret Voltaire founding member and electronic music icon Richard H. Kirk designed the cover art for the band's 2005 album Cut Up / Liberate. Presenting ardent social activism in a framework that draws on all forms of electronic/dance, rock and urban music, 3kStatic has drawn particular acclaim in the US and UK underground. The band's releases have seen greater commercial acceptance in Germany and Continental Europe, where the album The Great Republic was named one of the Top 10 albums of 2006 by Cargo Records Germany. The 2006 double album Where's Our Piece of the Groovy World? hit #1 (Dance) on iTunes Europe, and charted Top 10 on iTunes in Italy, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain; remaining in the iTunes Top 25 Dance Album Sales charts for ten consecutive weeks in summer 2006. The album was the first 3kStatic release to be a GRAMMY® Award candidate. Recent 3kStatic remix releases + an aggressive live schedule have increased awareness in the dance mainstream. The 3kStatic track 'Groove at the Point of a Breakdown (feat. Professor Griff and Kasuf & The Mazz Muvement)' was selected as among the 'Songs of the Times' by protest rock legend Neil Young. The 2008 double album Voodoo Science was also a GRAMMY® Award candidate, and charted no fewer than 11 Top 20 tracks on various retail charts. As of June 2009, the album is #1 (IDM) at download site Lala.com, and #3 (Experimental) at We7.com. The album was released in Europe on Cargo Records Germany. The current 3kStatic album Evolver was released in February 2009 by Sony Creative Software as part of the Evolver sample library. The release is the first-ever Sony title to include a new original album with a complete sound library of samples and loops taken from the album.