Presocratics is an American
experimental music
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duo of Need Thomas Windham and Jon Philpot.
Multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and electronic music composer Need Windham met producer Jon Philpot in
Atlanta
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Georgia
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in the middle 1990s. They recorded one full-length album, ''Works and Days'', in the Atlanta studios of Whoa! Films, and a follow-up EP ''Presocratics Serve Imperialism'' in Philpot's
Brooklyn
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studio in
2000
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. Both were released on the record label
Table of the Elements
Table of the Elements is an avant-garde record label created by Jeff Hunt and co-owned by Hunt and producer/writer Paul Williams.
Begun in 1993, the label’s 150-plus releases form a significant contemporary chronicle of American experimental ...
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Presocratics toured Europe in March 2001 for a
Table of the Elements
Table of the Elements is an avant-garde record label created by Jeff Hunt and co-owned by Hunt and producer/writer Paul Williams.
Begun in 1993, the label’s 150-plus releases form a significant contemporary chronicle of American experimental ...
month-long showcase tour, sharing the stage with
San Agustin. Subsequent live performances by Presocratics have been rare.
Windham currently resides in
Seattle
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Washington
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. Philpot is currently active leading the band
Bear in Heaven
Bear in Heaven was an American indie rock band from New York City, formed by Jon Philpot in 2003. The sound of the band incorporates influences from psychedelic music, electronic music and krautrock.
History
Philpot has previously released mu ...
and resides in
Brooklyn
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New York
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Discography
*"If They Come In The Morning" on ''The Allegorical Power Series Volume VI'' -
Antiopic MP3 compilation,
2003
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In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War.
Demographic ...
*''Presocratics Serve Imperialism'' -
Table of the Elements
Table of the Elements is an avant-garde record label created by Jeff Hunt and co-owned by Hunt and producer/writer Paul Williams.
Begun in 1993, the label’s 150-plus releases form a significant contemporary chronicle of American experimental ...
CDEP,
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
*''Works And Days'' -
Table of the Elements
Table of the Elements is an avant-garde record label created by Jeff Hunt and co-owned by Hunt and producer/writer Paul Williams.
Begun in 1993, the label’s 150-plus releases form a significant contemporary chronicle of American experimental ...
CD,
2000
2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year.
Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
*''Pure Capitalism'' -
Table of the Elements
Table of the Elements is an avant-garde record label created by Jeff Hunt and co-owned by Hunt and producer/writer Paul Williams.
Begun in 1993, the label’s 150-plus releases form a significant contemporary chronicle of American experimental ...
7",
1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
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American electronic musicians
American electronic music duos
American experimental musical groups
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