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Title: ADULT. - electroclash, synth-pop from Detroit, Michigan
Post by: Administrator on June 12, 2023, 07:55:00 PM

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ADULT. is the Detroit duo Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller. They played their first lives show together in Germany in 1997 under the name Artificial Material. In early '98 they released their first 12" under the moniker Plasma Co. Later that year, they released their first 12" under the name ADULT. Currently, they have released 5 albums and 19 EPs or singles on Ghostly International, Thrill Jockey, Clone Records and on their own label Ersatz Audio, (which currently has over 40 releases since '95) They have remixed over 20 acts as well, including Tuxedomoon, John Foxx, Death In Vegas and Pet Shop Boys (for Moog Music). Before forming ADULT., Miller was half of the band Le Car.

Kuperus and Miller also make sculpture, paintings, films, photographs, performances, videos and installations. They strive to intersect the lines between art and audio. They have exhibited their work at institutions such as the Austrian Cultural Forum (NY), Mattress Factory (Pittsburgh), Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit), MOMAS (Saitama, Japan), and Centre d'art contemporain de Meymac (FR). They have shown their film The Three Grace(s) triptych at places such as Anthology Film Archives (NY), Distrital Film Festival (Mexico City), and Grey Area for Art and Technology (SF).

Member: Adam Lee Miller, Nicola Kuperus
Location: Detroit, Michigan

Website: http://www.adultperiod.com/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/adultperiod
Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/adultperiod
Twitter: http://twitter.com/adultperiod
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@ADULT.official (https://www.youtube.com/@ADULT.official)
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Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/adultofficial
Bandcamp: https://adultmusic.bandcamp.com/
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ADULT. - We Are a Mirror (feat. Douglas J McCarthy) (Official Video)

ADULT. - They're Just Words (feat. Douglas J McCarthy) (Official Video)

ADULT. - We Chase the Sound (feat. Shannon Funchess) (Official Video)

ADULT. - Uncomfortable Positions (feat. Lun*na Menoh) (Official Video)

ADULT. - "Our Bodies Weren't Wrong" (Official Video)

ADULT. - "Violent Shakes" (Official Video)

ADULT. - "Tonight We Fall" (Official Video)

ADULT. "Total Total Damage" (Official Video)

ADULT. "Fools (We are...)" (Official Video)

ADULT. - "Why Always Why" (Official Video)

ADULT. - "Perversions of Humankind" (Official Video)

ADULT. - "Silent Exchange" (Official Video)

ADULT. - "Inside" Music Video

Adult. - In My Nerves

Title: Re: ADULT.
Post by: Administrator on November 23, 2023, 09:09:51 PM

Adult. - New Phonies
by Adult.





2000 Detroit. 2023 Still Detroit... Remastered and reworked art reissue of Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller's Adult. classic.

releases January 22, 2024


ADULT. & PLANET B – Glass in the Trash/ Release Me 7” Single
by ADULT.




BUY VINYL HERE: threeoneg.com/archive/vinyl/glass-in-the-trash-b-w-release-me-ep

ADULT. & PLANET B – Glass in the Trash/Release Me 7” Single

Justin Pearson (Dead Cross, Deaf Club, The Locust), Luke Henshaw (Sonido de la Frontera), Kevin Avery (Field Day, Retox) and Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Glassing, Volente Beach) formed Planet B with the shared purpose of creating music subversive in sound and sobering in message. Their music lays somewhere just out of reach of genre, with aesthetics rooted in hip hop, hardcore punk, turntablism, and 70s-80s horror movie scores. It is catchy, heavily percussive, and eerie all at once, much like the creative output of dark dance duo ADULT., a pair that seek to harness “the perverse aspects of the late ’70s analog dystopian post-modernism.” These artists’ bodies of work mirror one another in form and function, and both “Release Me” and “Glass in The trash” encapsulates the ethos of both, allowing the duos’ similar mindsets to collide. Nicola Kuperus’s hypnotic vocals add an occult aura, mysteriously alluring and supernatural, pulsating and equally intense alongside Pearson’s aggressive style. Henshaw and Adam Lee Miller’s sampling, sequencing and synthesizing entangle and diverge seamlessly, providing dance-driven soundtracks fit for an apocalypse. Both tracks ebb and flow, pull and push, begs to be released and yet remains throbbing in your head long after it ends.

released January 6, 2023

This record has been recorded by Adam Lee Miller and Luke Henshaw. Mixed and mastered by Brent Asbury at Measurable Harm.

Design and layout by The Black Moon Design.

Album photography by Becky DiGiglio.


Becoming Undone
by ADULT.




After a quarter century of nearly nonstop activity, dystopian Detroit synth-punk institution ADULT. have perfected a strain of stylistic cohesion in the album format, “but for this we wanted something that’s falling apart.” Becoming Undone, the 9th official full-length by co-founders Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller, explicitly succeeds in this aim, simultaneously rejecting and reflecting the planetary discord that inspired it. Begun in the latter half of 2020 against a backdrop of unprecedented flux and seismic isolation, the duo kickstarted their muse by sourcing fresh additions to the rig: a vocal loop pedal for Kuperus and Roland percussion pads for Miller. Reconnecting with legacy influences like the politicized industrial percussion of Test Department and the queasy miscreant synthetics of TG’s 20 Jazz Funk Greats sparked a series of fruitfully frenetic sessions, centered on themes of impermanence and dissonance. Miller’s rationale is blunt: “We weren’t interested in melody or harmony since we didn’t see the world having that.”

From the tense technoid blitz of “Undoing / Undone” to the twitchy EBM of “Fools (We Are…)” and “I Am Nothing,” the sides bristle with strident acidic revolt and black leather sequential circuits, unhinged and unforgiving. Elsewhere, slower tempos of purgatorial unraveling (“Normative Sludge,” “She’s Nice Looking”) showcase a breadth of vocal FX, Kuperus sounding alternately indignant and possessed, decrying the crimes, fears, and failings of a deluded world. Throughout, the band’s chemistry crackles with revulsion and strobe-lit dissent, equal parts exorcism and denunciation. “Humans have always been pretty terrible,” Kuperus explains. “But every year the compromises of culture just accelerate.”

Becoming Undone is also freighted with a more personal pain, as Kuperus’ father passed away during the height of the pandemic, just before the album took root. As his hospice caretakers, she and Miller faced the banality of finality, surrounded by objects drained of meaning, “the joy of having a body, but also the drudgery of having one.” The record’s bewitching closing track, “Teeth Out Pt. II” – which happens to be the first ADULT. song in the group’s history without drums – speaks to this sense of doomed corporeal mass and the looming, lightless unknown that binds us all. A seasick haze swells and subsides in slow, low waves, flickering with ring modulation, above which Kuperus sings in a dazed, brooding, transcendent state, as if having finally glimpsed beyond the pale: “Some day / some day I will be silent and free / of this relentless gravity.”