In a 25-year career that’s seen collaborations with luminary artists from across the music spectrum– all the while posting multiple DJ chart Top 25s, an iTunes Europe #1 album, and two-time GRAMMY® Award “Best Electronic Album” candidacies – the 3kStatic electronic music collective has continued to evolve, securing a unique place in the pantheon of deep-underground electronic music.

That evolution continues on “The New Face of British Coal”, a 12-track concept album that employs the project’s Dadaist ‘cut and paste/found sound’ approach in an exploration of electronic music forms – past, present and future.

Lead single ‘Yes It Is’ is an organic / electro house journey that recently charted #15 (Trending / House) on prominent DJ pools, with radio and club support in multiple markets.

Additional focus tracks “Jah Love”, “Spiritual Destruction (Lick It)” and “I’ve Been Holding On” explore various electronica genres, with the undercurrent theme of the album concept running throughout.

Taking its title from an industrial advertising campaign – itself a reaction to the significant labor upheaval in the post-privitisation of the UK coal mining industry – “The New Face of British Coal” is inspired by the work of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign.

“The New Face of British Coal” fuses this incident in UK labor history with the still-prescient realities of current times, using the evolution of Northern electronica and its continuing evolution as a springboard.

With releases on 20 labels worldwide since its inception in 1998, 3kStatic has been heavily influenced by the pioneers of industrial electronica – as well as the work of multi-media artists Guy Debord, William S. Burroughs and Byron Gysin.

3kStatic has collaborated with members, or former members, of: Kansas; Yes; ELO, Part II; Cabaret Voltaire; Hula; Pop Will Eat Itself; Public Enemy; Parliament-Funkadelic; Public Image Ltd.; King Crimson and others.

3kStatic has produced commissioned remixes for: Ku-Ling Bros.; KMFDM; Lords of Acid; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails), and many others.

Evolver: Distinctive Electronica – a 3kStatic sample and sound library was released by Sony Creative Software in 2009, and was accompanied by the full album Evolver.

 

“The New Face of British Coal” is now available on digital, disc and vinyl formats. All orders of physical product ship next business day.