Exhaust is a bass clarinet

Bass clarinet

The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B , but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet...

, drum and tape

Tape loop

In music, tape loops are loops of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound. Contemporary composers such as Steve Reich and Karlheinz Stockhausen used tape loops to create phase patterns and rhythms...

 trio from Montreal that started in the mid-90s. The bands members are Aidan Girt

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 moniker 1-Speed Bike and occasionally Bottleskup Flenkenkenmike....

 (drums), Gordon Krieger (bass/ bass clarinet) and Mike Zabitsky (tape loops). Their debut album was a self-released 7" cassette entitled 230596

230596

230596 was one of the first releases by Exhaust before they signed themselves to Constellation. The title of this album comes from the date when it was recorded.-Track listing:# "Cat Face"# "Hork Pitou"# "Wool Fever Dub"# "That Just Costs You $116"...

. Their first release on Constellation Records

Constellation Records

Constellation Records is an influential Montreal, Quebec independent record label known for its contributions to experimental genres of music. It is most famous for releasing the albums of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band, and Do Make Say...

 was in 1998 (vinyl). It was re-released on CD by Constellation in 2000. They released their second album in 2002. Exhaust is currently recording a new full length at the Pines in Montreal.

Discography

• 230596
  230596
  230596 was one of the first releases by Exhaust before they signed themselves to Constellation. The title of this album comes from the date when it was recorded.-Track listing:# "Cat Face"# "Hork Pitou"# "Wool Fever Dub"# "That Just Costs You $116"...
  
  7" cassette (self-release; 1996)
• Exhaust
  Exhaust (album)
  Exhaust is an album by Montreal based band Exhaust. It was released in 1998 on Constellation Records.-Track listing:# A History Of Guerrilla Warfare - 6.03# Metro Mile End - 3.02# Homemade Maggot Beer - 0.26...
  
  LP (Constellation Records; 1998)
• Exhaust
  Exhaust (album)
  Exhaust is an album by Montreal based band Exhaust. It was released in 1998 on Constellation Records.-Track listing:# A History Of Guerrilla Warfare - 6.03# Metro Mile End - 3.02# Homemade Maggot Beer - 0.26...
  
  CD (Constellation Records; 2000)
• Enregistreur
  Enregistreur
  Enregistreur is an album by Montreal based band Exhaust. It was released in 2002 on Constellation Records.-Track listing:# Gauss - 2:11# Behind The Water Tower - 6:03# Voiceboxed - 5:18# Ice Storm - 9:01# Dither - 1:50...
  
  CD/LP (Constellation Records; 2002)