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.[2]
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 (with Laner and Shannon Lee).[1]
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.[3] As Electric Company, he released ten full-length albums in nine years (before ceasing activity in 2004). The same year, he also founded psychedelicsupergroupLusk with the members of Tool and Failure,[1] 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.[2]
Discographyedit
with Debt of Natureedit
Order: Spoil The Entire State (Harbinger Sound 2013)
cassette releases
Pets Have Fears Too (Real Big Dog tapes 1981)
Robin Diamond's Lungs (A.R.P.H. tapes 1982)
Idiot Stick (Party Sound Tapes 1983)
Pets Have Fears Two (Party Sound Tapes 1983)
Food Music (Gleet Audio 1983)
1981 Vol. 1 (Jookie Thrills 1983)
Debt of Nature (Goodall Tapes 1986)
Order: Spoil The Entire State (VHS) (Goodall Tapes 1986)
"San Salvador Day" (Goodall Tapes 2014)
"Salt Meadows" (Lal Lal Lal 2015)
"Come Flying" (Goodall Tapes 2015)
"Spring Training" (Goodall Tapes 2015)
"Small Silver Car" (Lal Lal Lal 2015)
"The Helix Of Repair" (Lal Lal Lal 2016)
compilation appearances
Feeble Efforts (New Alliance 1981)
Mighty Feeble (New Alliance 1982)
Life is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record (New Underground 1983)
L.A. Mantra (Trance Port Tapes 1983)
Live at the Trance Port (Trance Port Tapes 1983)
Phantom Takes (Trance Port Tapes 1983)
Give Me That Dog Penis Popsicle (Gleet Audio 1983)
Sex and Bestiality (DF Sadist School 1984)
Perpetual State of Oracular Dream (Anomalous 1991)
"L'Incoronazione" (Hyster Tapes 2015)
with Earth Dies Burningedit
Songs From The Valley of the Bored Teenager 1981-84 (Captured Tracks 2013)
with Stahlbauedit
cassette releases
Todlich Verungluckt (A.R.P.H. tapes 1982)
Die Macht Der Reichen (Aeon 1983)
with Pilgrim Stateedit
Effective Spiritual Warfare (New Underground, 1984)
with Severed Head in a Bagedit
cassette releases
"Live" (Goodall Tapes 2014)
"Delayed Implantation" (Goodall Tapes 2014)
with Steaming Coilsedit
Never Creak (Rotary Totem 1986)
The Tarkington Table (Motiv 1987)
Breaded (Nate Starkman & Sons CD 1991; reissued Quaquaversal Vinyl 1994; re-reissued Medical Records with bonus "Unfinished 1989" 7-inch E.P. 2016)
Never Were (Tarkington Table cassette 1987)
Studio Cassette (Medical Records 2016)
compilation appearances
Bad Alchemy #9 (No Man's Land 1987)
LAFMS-The Lowest Form of Music Box Set (Cortical 1997)
LAFMS-Unboxed (Cortical 1997)
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 Salaedit
A Bitter Kermit Haven (split LP with What Makes Donna Twirl) (Ralph 1990)
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This biography of a living person relies too much on references to primary sources Please help by adding secondary or tertiary sources Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately especially if potentially libelous or harmful Find sources Brad Laner news newspapers books scholar JSTOR September 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message Brad Laner born November 6 1966 in Los Angeles California 1 is an American musician and record producer best known for his work with the shoegaze band Medicine which he founded and led Brad LanerBirth nameBrad LanerBorn 1966 11 06 November 6 1966 age 57 1 Los Angeles California U S 1 Occupation s Musician songwriter record producerYears active1981 presentLabelsOnion American Recordings Warner Bros Records Creation Supreme Island PolyGram Records Zoo Volcano Planet Mu Beggars Banquet HometapesWebsite 1 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 2 Contents 1 Career 2 Discography 2 1 with Debt of Nature 2 2 with Earth Dies Burning 2 3 with Stahlbau 2 4 with Pilgrim State 2 5 with Severed Head in a Bag 2 6 with Steaming Coils 2 7 with To Nije Sala 2 8 with Savage Republic 2 9 other 1980s releases as Brad Laner 2 10 with Medicine 2 11 as Electric Company 2 12 as Amnesia 2 13 as Personal Electronics 2 14 with Vas Deferens Organization 2 15 with Kraig Grady 2 16 with Lusk 2 17 with Medicine 2002 04 BL duo with Shannon Lee version 2 18 with North Valley Subconscious Orchestra 2 19 with the Internal Tulips 2 20 post 2000 solo releases as Brad Laner 2 21 Brad Laner guest appearances on other artists releases 3 References 4 External linksCareer editLaner founded his first band Debt of Nature at the age of 15 in 1981 He founded Steaming Coils an experimental avant rock band 1984 1989 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 with Laner and Shannon Lee 1 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 3 As Electric Company he released ten full length albums in nine years before ceasing activity in 2004 The same year he also founded psychedelic supergroup Lusk with the members of Tool and Failure 1 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 2 Discography editwith Debt of Nature edit Order Spoil The Entire State Harbinger Sound 2013 cassette releases Pets Have Fears Too Real Big Dog tapes 1981 Robin Diamond s Lungs A R P H tapes 1982 Idiot Stick Party Sound Tapes 1983 Pets Have Fears Two Party Sound Tapes 1983 Food Music Gleet Audio 1983 1981 Vol 1 Jookie Thrills 1983 Debt of Nature Goodall Tapes 1986 Order Spoil The Entire State VHS Goodall Tapes 1986 San Salvador Day Goodall Tapes 2014 Salt Meadows Lal Lal Lal 2015 Come Flying Goodall Tapes 2015 Spring Training Goodall Tapes 2015 Small Silver Car Lal Lal Lal 2015 The Helix Of Repair Lal Lal Lal 2016 compilation appearances Feeble Efforts New Alliance 1981 Mighty Feeble New Alliance 1982 Life is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record New Underground 1983 L A Mantra Trance Port Tapes 1983 Live at the Trance Port Trance Port Tapes 1983 Phantom Takes Trance Port Tapes 1983 Give Me That Dog Penis Popsicle Gleet Audio 1983 Sex and Bestiality DF Sadist School 1984 Perpetual State of Oracular Dream Anomalous 1991 L Incoronazione Hyster Tapes 2015 with Earth Dies Burning edit Songs From The Valley of the Bored Teenager 1981 84 Captured Tracks 2013 with Stahlbau edit cassette releases Todlich Verungluckt A R P H tapes 1982 Die Macht Der Reichen Aeon 1983 with Pilgrim State edit Effective Spiritual Warfare New Underground 1984 with Severed Head in a Bag edit cassette releases Live Goodall Tapes 2014 Delayed Implantation Goodall Tapes 2014 with Steaming Coils edit Never Creak Rotary Totem 1986 The Tarkington Table Motiv 1987 Breaded Nate Starkman amp Sons CD 1991 reissued Quaquaversal Vinyl 1994 re reissued Medical Records with bonus Unfinished 1989 7 inch E P 2016 Never Were Tarkington Table cassette 1987 Studio Cassette Medical Records 2016 compilation appearances Bad Alchemy 9 No Man s Land 1987 LAFMS The Lowest Form of Music Box Set Cortical 1997 LAFMS Unboxed Cortical 1997 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 edit A Bitter Kermit Haven split LP with What Makes Donna Twirl Ralph 1990 with Savage Republic edit Jamahiriya Democratique et Populaire de Sauvage Fundamental 1988 Viva La Rock and Roll 7 inch IPR 1988 Customs Fundamental 1989 Live in Europe 1988 Nate Starkman amp Sons 1989 Box Set Mobilization 2002 Procession An Aural History LTM 2010 other 1980s releases as Brad Laner edit cassette releases SEP 8363 vols 1 5 Party Sound Tapes 1982 1984 Blind Force Goodall Tapes 1985 compilation appearances Omniana Audio Arm 3 cassette magazine A R P H 1982 L A Mantra 2 Trance Port Tapes 1984 Neighborhood Rhythms Freeway Rhino 1984 Re Records Quarterly vol 2 with James Grigsby Recommended 1989 Hollyword cassette Freeway Rhino 1990 with Medicine edit Shot Forth Self Living Def American Warner Bros 1992 Reissued with bonus material by Captured Tracks 2012 The Buried Life American Recordings Warner Bros 1993 Reissued with bonus material by Captured Tracks 2012 Her Highness American Recordings Warner Bros 1995 Medicine Box Set Captured Tracks 2012 Always Starting To Stop live cassette Captured Tracks 2012 To the Happy Few Captured Tracks 2013 In Session Captured Tracks 2014 Home Everywhere Captured Tracks 2014 Selected Early Recordings Bandcamp 2018 Scarred For Life Drawing Room 2019 Falls Bandcamp 2020 Drugs MPLS Ltd 2022 Her Highness premiere melange Laner Archival Service 2023 Silences Laner Archival Service 2023 On The Bed Laner Archival Service 2024 Singles and EPs Aruca Creation 1992 5ive a k a Come Here To Drink Milk Creation 1993 Never Click Beggars Banquet 1993 Sounds Of Medicine American 1994 Reissued with bonus material by Captured Tracks 2012 Time Baby 3 Beggars Banquet 1994 Off The Vine double 7 inch Ectoplasm 1995 Time Baby 2 7 inch Captured Tracks 2012 Compilation appearances The Crow OST Atlantic 1994 The Doom Generation OST American Recordings Warner Bros 1994 Tigerbeat6 Inc Tigerbeat6 2001 Musique Dessinee 01 Just A Groove Production Dessinee Japan 2006 as Electric Company edit A Pert Cyclic Omen Onion American Recordings Warner Bros 1995 Electric Company Plays Amnesia Supreme Island PolyGram 1997 Studio City Supreme Island PolyGram 1998 Omakase Vinyl Communications 1999 Exitos Tigerbeat6 2000 Slow Food Planet Mu 2001 62 56 Tigerbeat6 2001 Greatest Hits Tigerbeat6 2001 It s Hard to Be a Baby Tigerbeat6 2003 Creative Playthings Tigerbeat6 2004 EPs Live In Concept 10 inch 7 inch Krown Pocket 1995 The Kahanek Incident split w Furry Things Trance Syndicate 1997 New 3 inch CD Fallt Invalid Object Series 2001 Greatest Hits Companion 1 Tigerbeat6 2001 Greatest Hits Companion 2 Tigerbeat6 2001 Remixes and compilation appearances Slow Death in the Metronome Factory World Domination 1997 Dugga Dugga Dugga WMO 1998 Knots Thousand 1999 On Soluble Words Epic SME 1999 Sadovaja A Sweet Design Warner Bros Sweden 2000 Kid606 amp Friends vol 1 Tigerbeat6 2000 American Breakbeat Klangkreig 2000 Kid606 P S You Love Me Mille Plateaux 2000 Cex Oops I Did It Again Tigerbeat6 2001 Attitude Tigerbeat6 2000 The Cosmic Forces of Mu Planet Mu 2001 Tigerbeat6 Inc Tigerbeat6 2001 Criminal 2 Planet Mu 2002 Vol 2 Tigerbeat6 2001 Vol 6 Tigerbeat6 2001 Marumari The Remixes Carpark 2002 45 Seconds Of Simballrec 2002 Lowercase 2 Bremsstrahlung 2002 Ellen Allien Weiss mix B Pitch Control 2002 American Breakbeat Rebuilt Klangkreig 2002 Wrong Application Tigerbeat6 2001 And The Beat Goes Off Tigerbeat6 2002 Paws Across America Tigerbeat6 2002 Good Night Music To Sleep To Tigerbeat6 2003 Stars As Eyes Loud New Shit Tigerbeat6 2003 Open up and Say Tigerbeat6 2003 O Superman Remix Staalplaat 2003 Audio Sponge 1 Daisyworld Japan 2003 Neighbors Remixing Adjunct 2009 Solypsis Hybrids Component 2019 as Amnesia edit Cherry Flavor Night Time Supreme Island PolyGram 1997 Lingus Supreme Island PolyGram 1998 Love Story A Pretty Sight 7 inch Krown Pocket 1997 as Personal Electronics edit The Story of Personal Electronics LOHD 1998 Compilation appearance Blip Bleep soundtracks to imaginary videogames Lucky Kitchen 1998 with Vas Deferens Organization edit Transcontinental Conspiracy Quaquaversal Vinyl 1996 reissued on Niklas Records 2011 More Pelvis Wick for the Baloney Boners Tekito 1999 with Kraig Grady edit Music From The Island of Anaphoria Tiny Organ 1998 with Lusk edit Free Mars Volcano BMG 1997 with Medicine 2002 04 BL duo with Shannon Lee version edit The Mechanical Forces of Love Wall of Sound 2003 2 0 Extraneous Drawing Room Records 2017 EPs Wet on Wet Wall of Sound 2002 I Smile To My Eyes Wall of Sound 2003 As You Do Wall of Sound 2004 Remixes and compilation appearances The Faint Danse Macabre Remixes Astralwerks Caroline Virgin EMI 2003 Themroc Into the Light Wall of Sound 2003 Wall of Sound 10th Anniversary Wall of Sound 2003 Labels Series EMI International 2004 Strictly Dub Modern Dub Classics Sunswept 2005 with North Valley Subconscious Orchestra edit The Right Kind of Nothing Ghostly International 2006 with the Internal Tulips edit Mislead into a Field by a Deformed Deer Planet Mu 2010 Mellotorn Offline Bandcamp 2012 compilation appearance 14 Tracks from Planet Mu Planet Mu 2011 post 2000 solo releases as Brad Laner edit The Subterranean River Caverns of Los Angeles CD soundtrack for a book by Dani Tull private edition 2006 Neighbor Singing Hometapes 2007 Natural Selections Hometapes 2010 Nearest Suns Drawing Room Hometapes 2013 Micro Awakenings online edition Mutant Sounds 2013 LP edition Drawing Room 2016 Music For Beautiful Noise Captured Tracks 2014 For Magnetic Tape Drawing Room 2015 Elephant Heart Plumb Midnight Circles 2018 Ligaments 01 05 Captured Tracks 2019 Singles and EPs Brad Laner Joensuu 1685 split 12 inch Splendour Norway 2010 Highly Morning Sideshow 7 inch Drawing Room 2013 Remixes amp Compilation appearances Neighbors Remixing Adjunct 2009 Flossin Serpents Overlap 2009 Triskaidekaphobia 13 000 00 MilliSeconds Ratskin 2009 I ll Be Hometapes For Christmas Hometapes 2010 Shedding Tear In The Sun Reimagined Bandcamp 2011 The Neverending Beginning with Lauren Kinney Hometapes 2011 Another Iris All Tiny Creatures Hometapes 2012 Brad Laner guest appearances on other artists releases edit Boeckner Boeckner Sub Pop 2024 Nervous Gender Music From Hell deluxe reissue Dark Entries 2023 Paul B Cutler Les Fleurs In The Red 2023 Falty DL A Nurse to My Patience Blueberry 2022 Lindsey Buckingham S T Reprise 2021 The Flying Luttenbachers Imminent Death ugEXPLODE God Records 2019 Autumnfair Watching The Sky Thom Furhmann Records 2018 Sissy Spacek Expanding Antiverse Dotsmark 2018 Taleen Kali Soul Songs Lolipop 2018 Mary Epworth Elytral Sunday Best 2017 Vinyl Williams Brunei Company 2016 Sissy Spacek Duration Groups Helicopter 2016 D D Dobson A Halo of Affectation 777 Was 666 2016 Wild Nothing Life of Pause Captured Tracks 2016 Tulips Doom And Bloom Lollipop 2015 Digital Noise Academy Synemy Echo Field 2013 M83 Hurry Up We re Dreaming Mute 2011 Blinker The Star We Draw Lines Nile River 2012 The Caribbean Discontinued Perfume Hometapes 2011 Lauren Kinney Wail Bandcamp 2013 Lauren Kinney Riddled Bandcamp 2011 Christopher Willits Tiger Flower Circle Sun Ghostly 2010 Blinker The Star w Lindsey Buckingham Catch And Release O S T Sony 2007 Christopher Willits Surf Boundaries Ghostly 2006 Vetiver To Find Me Gone DiChristina 2006 Brian Eno Another Day On Earth Opal 2005 Caribou The Milk Of Human Kindness Leaf 2005 Caribou Barnowl 12 inch Leaf 2005 Caribou Marino DVD Leaf 2005 m ziq Bilious Paths Planet Mu 2003 Kid606 Down With The Scene Ipecac 2000 Furry Things Moments Away Trance Syndicate 1999 Blinker The Star August Everywhere DreamWorks 1999 On Shifting Skin Epic 1999 Spectacle Glow In The Dark Soul Supreme Island 1998 Ventilator Reseda Spleen Delmore 1997 V3 Photograph Burns Onion American 1996 Eenie Meenie EP Krown Pocket 1996 Vas Deferens Organization Saturation Aether 1996 Patio Collection vol 2 w Sweetcream USA Smilex 1997 Solid Eye Electromagnetic Field and Stream of Consciousness Senseworks 1994 The Black Watch Amphetamines Gotta Go 1994 Motor Totemist Guild Shapuno Zoo No Man s Land 1988 Motor Totemist Guild Homaggio a Futi Auf Dem Nil 1988 17 Pygmies Welcome Island 1988 17 Pygmies Missyfish Nate Starkman and Sons 1991 Fourwaycross On The Other Hand Nate Starkman and Sons 1989 Fourwaycross Pendulum Independent Project Records 1993 What Slender Young Leaders 7 inch New Alliance 1986 Blue Daisies Wilt Iridescence 1985 Gary Kail Zurich 1916 Creative Nihilism Iridescence 1984 John Trubee Beyond Eternity Lavender Flesh Cordelia 1984 References edit a b c d e Hometapes Hometapes Brad Laner Archived 2012 11 05 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved 08 September 2012 a b Pitchfork Media Joe Tangari 2010 16 August Brad Laner Natural Selections album review Retrieved 09 September 2012 Payne John November 25 1998 Personal Electronics LA Weekly Retrieved June 16 2013 External links editOfficial Web site Official profile on Hometapes record label Web site Medicine at AllMusic Electric Company at AllMusic Brad Laner at AllMusic Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Brad Laner amp oldid 1198149833, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
