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  Hymen release 045
gridlock is one of these artists that i have only followed on a regular basis meaning that i have only heard single tracks from the project on various compilations etc. but every single track that i have listened to, on any compilation ended up as one of my favourite tracks of that certain compilation.
gridlock even have the guts to throw off their shackles and play ambient pure and simple on the closing 'done processing'.
this is not a paradox, it's the proof that gridlock is one of the acts that is acting on new grounds.
www.hymen-records.com /all/y045.html   (3001 words)

  
 no_i_se   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
gridlock has one of the most unique sounds that i've ever run across.
gridlock's sound has one of those rare abilities to draw out true emotion.
a great addition for the gridlock freak in you and for those stuck on the east coast who haven't had a chance to see them live.
www.anti-statik.com /whale/music/albums_new/gridlock.html   (148 words)

  
 Gridlock - Detailed Information, Event Schedule & More @ Kickin' Tickets inc.
All Gridlock charts and detailed information are intended to be used as a general indication of seat locations and stage position to better help with making a more informed buying decision.
While every effort is made to be as precise as possible, changes made by the promoter, band or venue can occur without notice.
Gridlock tickets may be sold for more than face value.
www.kickintickets.com /gridlock_tickets.html   (293 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/gridlock1
Gridlock are a rock band from Carmarthen in South West Wales.
The band are brothers Neil Smith on Lead Guitar and Anthony Smith on Drums and Lead Vocals, with Gareth Richards on Bass and Jon Williams on Rhythm Guitar.
Gridlocks sound is both popular within its genre while managing to sound unlike anything out there at the moment.
www.myspace.com /gridlock1   (746 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Further: Music: Gridlock   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gridlock's grinding noise and pounding, violent rhythms may owe much to the legacy of industrial bands of the late 1980s, but on Further, their sophomore release, the duo of Mike Wells and Cadoo prove they aren't out to make just another tired old industrial album.
Now, with their latest release, the band take their sound even further into the future, eclipsing their previous efforts, and demonstrating to their fans and critics that Gridlock is here to stay.
Gridlock, in itself, defies classification therefore no matter what type of music you claim to listen to in the shower or on your commute, Gridlock will suit the occasion.
www.amazon.com /Further-Gridlock/dp/B00000ID2K   (1406 words)

  
 NME.COM - The world's fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and free stuff to win.
The band was a complete flop, Anthony got bored and joined a band with Neil, Gareth quickly followed.
The 3 members of Gridlock have been together for 8 years playing all around the UK and have summed up quite a following with their hard edged rock mixed with their own unique sound.
The band have recently been joined by another local Carmarthen guitar player, Jon Williams whos guitar playing has brought another dimension to their live performance.
www.nme.com /bandComments/gridlock   (203 words)

  
 Band's Mormon-Mocking Halftime Show Leads to Apologies, Sanctions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Band manager Stella Cousins declined to discuss the nature of the sanctions, saying that secrecy was part of the agreement between the Band and the Athletic Department.
The Stanford band is permanently banned from playing at Notre Dame after they thought it would be fun to portray the Pope having sex with a nun and made fun of the Irish potato famine during a halftime show at Stanford.
The band should be glad it was banned, as the ND fans had coordinated an Irish greeting of sorts for those precocious pricks upon their arrival in South Bend.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1228334/posts   (2881 words)

  
 Theoretical Foundations
The grid­lock region for our bicameral system is determined on the left by the greatest re­striction between the two houses on movement to the right, and is determined on the right by the greatest restriction on movement to the left.
Because the narrow band that we call the gridlock region is defined by the pref­erences of legislators in the House and Senate, a change in these members or in their preferences could alter the size and placement of the region.
When these constraints are included, the gridlock region actually expands out to the party ideal policies (and not just to the ideal policies of party moderates), leading to the likelihood of even more gridlock than under the weak party assumption that we have used.
www.stanford.edu /class/polisci179/Gridlock2.htm   (14978 words)

  
 Shades of Silence - Free Music Downloads, Videos, Lyrics, CDs, MP3s, Bio, Merchandise and Links
Gridlock was set up with the same ideas with which the later Shades of Silence was born.
The more Gridlock progressed the more we were confronted with the limitations of having only four instruments in the band.
As most popular music based bands use midi-instruments to simulate an orchestra we decided that if we were to publish this album we would only use real instruments.
www.artistdirect.com /nad/music/artist/bio/0,,1221102,00.html   (487 words)

  
 Interview: Gridlock - 7/6/96
Gridlock is a three-member band from the SF Bay Area who have two self-produced releases, entitled Sickness and Frozen.
With any electronic band it is very difficult to get music compiled and rehearsed.
Mike: It was always very important to find a person who had played live for a number of years to be a part of the band because we didn't have that luxury of learning from scratch.
www.sonic-boom.com /interview/gridlock-1.interview.html   (2102 words)

  
 Gridlock Rocks
Jonathan has been performing with bands in the Twin Cities area for over 24 years.
She has been performing as a solo act and with small acoustic groups since the mid-80s in both the Twin Cities and Los Angeles, and was a founding member of the American Strays (her only former band).
Former bands include Fizz, Fureal, Second Sight, Scream Machine and countless other acts including singing professionally for weddings and corporate outings for over 20 years.
www.gridlockrocks.net /?PID=7   (322 words)

  
 album reviews for 2/14
The lyrics are the same old "society sucks" crap, and the rest of the band is typically boring too.
But no old school hardcore band would be complete without the faintly heard guitar breaks, and there's enough of them to make me vomit.
The band was also kind enough to include some interesting facts in the Cd booklet.
wings.buffalo.edu /publications/prodsun/old/webgrooves/97s/2_14.html   (1572 words)

  
 Hymen CD release 736
formless, gridlock’s fourth album and first full-length for hymen, is as far away from the acrid, slight world of plug-ins and software music as you
could possibly get, which is rather ironic considering that gridlock’s mike wells and mike cadoo live in the would-be epicenter of laptop music, san
both remark that it’s all just a matter of course for gridlock, which began in 1997 with their the synthetic form lp on pendragon records.
www.hymen-records.com /all/y736.html   (3571 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Peace and Love: Music: The Pogues   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
For his last album with the band that made him infamous, he has the good grace to share the limelight with his bandmates (and let's face it, any band that produces this many talented songwriters has to be worthy of respect!).
But for all that, the band is in secure territory here: leftfield drinking songs, laments for days gone by, an occasional burst of political invective, and lots of gorgeous acoustic instrumentation underpinned by the rumble of rhythm guitars.
Two lesser Pogues contribute the opening instrumental 'Gridlock' which, though a blatant attempt to recreate the previous album's 'Metropolis', still provides a gripping opening and a good introduction to the frenetic energy cancelling itself out which really characterises the album: talented musicians at cross purposes.
www.amazon.co.uk /Peace-Love-Pogues/dp/B000005S6D   (1115 words)

  
 Definition of Gridlock (band)
Gridlock is an experimental electronic band originally created by Mike Wells in 1994.
A year later, Mike Cadoo joined up, and the duo released their first two demos, Sickness and Frozen, and soon signed to Pendragon Records in 1997.
The list of authors can be found here.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Gridlock_(band)   (179 words)

  
 GLOSSARY G
Additionally, the band structure of GaAs allows light-emitting devices to be made, not previously possible with silicon (Recently, etched silicon has also been made to emit light by applying a voltage or a "pumping" light).
GRIDLOCK - (1) The process of removing navigational and radar biases by calibrating to a common force reference point.
This is accomplished by all units of the force simultaneously recording the position of a commonly-held target that has a specified relative position from the force center (or other reference point) at the same instant.
www.sew-lexicon.com /gloss_g.htm   (3358 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/gridlock1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Gridlock are a rock band from Carmarthen in South West Wales.
The band are brothers Neil Smith on Lead Guitar and Anthony Smith on Drums and Lead Vocals, with Gareth Richards on Bass and Jon Williams on Rhythm Guitar.
Gridlocks sound is both popular within its genre while managing to sound unlike anything out there at the moment.
profile.myspace.com /index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=22028964   (2121 words)

  
 Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The name was changed to Gridlock, but after a few gigs (including Juufest), splits emerged in the band, and Gridlock split up in March 03.
Eventually, the band decided they missed the feeling of playing music together too much, and got together to re-for with as ever, Gally on Drums, Tom on bass and Jamie on Guitar, as well as doin vocals.
The influences of this band are mainly of metal, from Ozzy, Iron Maiden and Metallica, to InME, Chevelle, Stabbing Westward, Marilyn Manson and even Muse.
www.angelfire.com /rock3/contra-diction/band.html   (168 words)

  
 tourist the band - press kit, interviews, biography, images and logos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
As an audience member you feel as if the band is inviting you to share in their love of music and enjoy their creations.
We just went ‘fuck it, we’re not a commercial band and we’re not going to be, so let’s not even factor that in to the writing’.
The most ambitious and creative release the band have thus far adventured, A Toast To Absent Friends is a swirling journey that goes from the deepest of lows to the highest of highs.
www.touristband.com.au /press.asp   (1644 words)

  
 How Does the Flow of Traffic Affect Your Life?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Now most states have gridlock laws which make it against the law to block an intersection when the cross traffic has a green light.
Downtown streets in metro areas across the country are in gridlock during rush hours.
The traffic on the freeways near the center of towns all the way out to the suburbs is outrageous.
gridlock.infoedit.org   (586 words)

  
 Gridlock (band) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gridlock is a San Francisco based experimental electronic band originally created by Mike Wells in 1994.
Today, they could better be compared to Autechre due to their newer IDM sound and to Panacea for their Drum and Bass experimentation.
On March 24, 2005, the band announced its dissolution on its website, but promised to continue making music under Wells' and Cadoo's respective sideprojects.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gridlock_(band)   (184 words)

  
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Same thing goes for "Caloc", which mixes the typical Gridlock moving melodies and heavy but flowing beats on broken patterns (and is it an accoustic bass I am hearing at the beginning of the track), the whole thing being extremely well written.
More elegiac than the last Gridlock record (last year's stunning Trace) and more melody-based than the previous full-length Dryft record, the Mytotyc Exyt EP is a narrow band of glitch-ribbed, crunchy beat goodness.
Both with Gridlock and with Dryft, he manages to merge IDM melodies, industrial noise, and tecknoid rhythms into a cinematic soundtrack which communicates action, adventure, intrigue, and stunned wonderment.
www.mindstorm.com /component/releases/com107.html   (1635 words)

  
 GRIDLOCK'd
The 'gridlock' referred to in the title is the state of the medical and welfare systems in the US, which are mired in bureaucracy; designed, it seems, to hold off the poor from demanding healthcare until they are dead.
It is only at the end of the film when we finally see the band performing in a club; that we get a glimpse into the power of music, more potent than any drug.
We become aware, perhaps too late, like the musicians themselves; that all heroin really does is fill in the space, the empty time; between those peaks of sublime expression and communication connecting the artist and audience.
www.fantompowa.net /Flame/heathcote_gridlock.htm   (1133 words)

  
 Thug Radio   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The first major hit for the GAP Band was a snazzy juke toon called "Shake." Just prior to the completion of their first album, Charlie Wilson cited the song for his brothers thinking they might ridicule the lyric.
Due to a typographical error, the group was advertised as G A P Band and it stuck.
Also, the band along with their labelmates and the creative staff at Total Experience Records helped lay the foundation for new jack and hip-hop.
thugradio.net /gap-main.html   (1344 words)

  
 Interview: Gridlock - 4/30/98
The artists involved are Gridlock, Neutronic, Individual Totem and Velvet Acid Christ.
Bob really still wanted to be involved with the band, but he had other interest in his life that became a little bit more important to him.
Mike: Since Industrial music is such a small market, dealing with a two band billing, there is less left over in the monetary sense for us to have been able to recoup our expenses.
www.sonic-boom.com /interview/gridlock-2.interview.html   (1250 words)

  
 w w w . 2 1 l u c i f e r s . t k   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Now with Lindhs membership the band started include influences from genres such as death and thrash into their already brutal sound.
After receiving nothing but good reviews for their debut demo the band started to work on their next release, mixing this with frequent live performances.
After numerous obstacles like sickness, bands who were not able to keep their recording schedule and other shit the demo was just about to be put on tape when… the drummer, and one of the founding members, BJ decided that he wanted to put the drumming on the shelf and quit the band.
hem.bredband.net /b161038/biography.htm   (556 words)

  
 Am I Right - Song Parodies, Welcome to Gridlock
Welcome to gridlock, here in D.C. Counting "Nay" votes with Pelosi is where I'll be.
Welcome to gridlock, here in D.C. Dodging bombshells with Pelosi is where I'll be.
Comments are subject to review, and can be removed by the administration of the site at any time and for any reason.
www.amiright.com /parody/60s/thedrifters26.shtml   (473 words)

  
 Gridlock 64 - Official site
Gridlock64 is an exceptional live band out of the Virginia Beach area, they have a diversity of styles from pop, funk, alternative to metal.
February 2007 Gridlock 64 made the Splash Magazine Music and Entertainment February edition.
Gridlock 64 playing for the first time at Boomerangs, now under new ownership, had an outstanding performance.
gridlock64.com   (105 words)

  
 broadband help » News » Wireless Gridlock - Report predicts interference woes
Another would be to create a whole new gig by rolling data, voice, and imagery into different frequencies and have the bands that communicate efficiently only send and receive those formats.
Congress gave the FCC authority over RF back in 1933 and one of their practices since is to allocate a band to a particular use and try to let the users coordinate within the band.
Not only that, but if they left the bands alone, just reallocated some, that would provide a UHF wireless solution that would be the perfect NLOS answer we all seek outside of 900Mhz gear.
www.broadbandreports.com /shownews/34864   (1831 words)

  
 Reviews for GRiDLoCK (uk) - SoundClick Music
Find out more about GRiDLoCK at: www.gridlockrock.com 1) Break Out:- Described by themselves to be a "crowd favourite," song, this is a brilliant start to this recording, and gets you really in the mood for the standard of the music to come.
Chris has a beautiful voice- full of expression and feeling and he seems to me the perfect choice for a singer of this genre of music- infact, I could compare him to such a legend as Kurt Cobain; the perfect blend of rock and grunge.
Although, as expected from the title of the track, this song has quite a depressing lyrical content, the music manages to maintain a perfect balance so as to steer it away from the route of self-pity.
www.soundclick.com /bands/reviews.cfm?bandid=148786   (763 words)

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