Stylex
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Stylex is an electroclash
/new wave
band formed in Ohio
, USA, in 1999.
The band's official record releases include Wonder Program (LP - 2002), False Start (EP - 2003), Auto Focus (LP - 2003), and Tight Scrapes (LP - 2006).
The Auto Focus album was remixed by Thunderbirds Are Now!
, Wicked Lung & the Wookalar, Mechanapoipoi, Jeff Loose, Mechanical Cat, goLAB, ANTON, Goodhands Team and Gil Mantera's Party Dream
. The resulting LP, Potential Infection, was released in 2004.
In 2007, Stylex announced they would cease playing shows or releasing new music.
Electroclash
Electroclash is a style of music that fuses New Wave and electronic dance music. It emerged in New York and Detroit in the later 1990s, pioneered by acts including I-F and those associated with Gerald Donald, and is associated with acts including Peaches, Adult, and Fischerspooner...
/new wave
New Wave music
New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...
band formed in Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
, USA, in 1999.
The band's official record releases include Wonder Program (LP - 2002), False Start (EP - 2003), Auto Focus (LP - 2003), and Tight Scrapes (LP - 2006).
The Auto Focus album was remixed by Thunderbirds Are Now!
Thunderbirds Are Now!
Thunderbirds are Now! is a Livonia, Michigan-based post-punk revival band whose sound uses a mix of traditional post-punk, New Wave and noise rock. The band is heavily influenced by 1980s New Wave and other post-punk revival acts like Les Savy Fav...
, Wicked Lung & the Wookalar, Mechanapoipoi, Jeff Loose, Mechanical Cat, goLAB, ANTON, Goodhands Team and Gil Mantera's Party Dream
Gil Mantera's Party Dream
Gil Mantera's Party Dream was an electronic synthpop party band hailing originally from Youngstown, Ohio, with Gil Mantera living in Columbus, Ohio as well as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Donny has always lived in Youngstown...
. The resulting LP, Potential Infection, was released in 2004.
In 2007, Stylex announced they would cease playing shows or releasing new music.
External links
- Official site
- "At a Loss for Words, Fish and Venison Dodge Static", Village Voice, January 7, 2004.
- Tight Scrapes review in "Foxy Digitalis"