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In addition to using Electronic instruments (originally Analog Synthesizer s and Drum Machine s, later Laptop s and Sampler s), they also sport fairly unusual acoustic instrumentation, having a Cellist and a Didjeridoo player in their regular line-up.

Stylistically they appropriate whatever Genre s they feel like, working to fuse different styles of Breakbeat , Drum And Bass , Downtempo , Digital Hardcore , Rock , Hip Hop , and, most conspicuously, academic Computer Music . Most of their recordings are culled from composite takes of live performances, though they have released two studio albums as well.

The Freight Elevator Quartet was for many years the unofficial Ensemble-in-residence of the Computer Music Center , Columbia University .


MEMBERS


  • Johnathan Lee - bass guitar, drum programming

  • Ken Thomson - saxophone

  • Mark McNamara - video artist



DISCOGRAPHY

  • ''The Freight Elevator Quartet'' (Electronic Music Foundation, 1997)

  • The Freight Elevator Quartet's ''Jungle Album'' (Electronic Music Foundation, 1998)

  • DJ Spooky vs. the Freight Elevator Quartet: ''File Under Futurism'' (Caipirinha/Sire, 1999)

  • ''File Under Futurism EP'' (with DJ Spooky and a Guy Called Gerald ) (Caipirinha/Sire, 1999)

  • The Freight Elevator Quartet ''Becoming Transparent'' (Caipirinha/Sire, 2000)

  • ''Exasperation EP'' (with JMD, Kit Clayton , Data'chi ) (Caipirinha/Sire, 2000)

  • The Freight Elevator Quartet ''Fix it in Post'' (Cycling'74 Music, 2001)



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