Pluxus

Pluxus new album “Solid State” is the result of a pioneering band re-inventing itself. The album is filled with a dirty, rusty and degenerated form of techno. It is beautiful and nasty at the same time and with distinctive melodies covered up in dirt and decay. The electronic soundscape and harmonies are cut through by accoustic instruments such as bass guitar, guitar, live drums, concrete sounds and fragmented voices. While “Solid State” is music for the future, this is the compressed history of the band:Pluxus was formed in Stockholm in 1996, a horrible time for Swedish electronic music. The scene almost entirely consisted of mushroom trance, speed house and some extreme avantgarde. The tunes streaming out from Pluxus’ old garage space outside of Stockholm was something completely different. Pluxus actually started out as a lo-fi guitar band but the childhood friends soon realized that guitars weren’t as much fun as machines, synthesizers and computers. Almost immediately the band were praised for putting the fun back in Swedish electronic music. A lot of different influences were mixed in the Pluxus blender: from Devo, Jean Jaques  Perry and Kraftwerk through Aphex Twin and Matmos. Things were going well, Pluxus put out three albums on their own label Pluxemburg, had a big hype in Scandinavia and also brought their arsenal of machines and synthesizers when touring Japan, Russia, UK, Germany and Scandinavia. Pluxus also put out other artists such as Andreas Tilliander and Jeans Team on their record label, Pluxemburg.The band was succesfull all along, but after releasing their third album they got fed up with their own format. When other acts tried to clone Pluxus’ sounds the band realized it was time to move on. The band stopped touring, they left everything behind (including one band member) and spent four years in the studio reinventing. The process was pretty painfull and hard but the result is “Solid State” - degenerated techno as you have never heard it before.